Aurich administrative district

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aurich administrative district
Inventory period 1885-1988
Affiliation 1885–1946 Province of Hanover
1946–1978 Lower Saxony
Seat Aurich
surface 3131 km² (1977)
Residents 423,700 (1977)
Population density 132 inhabitants / km² (1977)
RB Aurich.jpg

The administrative district Aurich was an administrative district of the Prussian province Hanover and the state of Lower Saxony . It covered the East Frisia region and existed from 1885 to 1978.

history

The history of the Aurich administrative district goes back to the year 1751. After Carl Edzard , the last East Frisian prince from the house of Cirksena, died in 1744 , the principality of East Frisia fell to King Friedrich II of Prussia . The city of Aurich was the seat of the state authorities and a war and domain chamber . In 1751, Christoph Friedrich von Derschau was appointed as the first Prussian government president of East Frisia in Aurich.

In 1806, as a result of the Fourth Coalition War , Prussia had to cede its province of East Frisia to the Kingdom of Holland . From 1810 to 1813, East Frisia was part of the French Empire . After the province briefly belonged to Prussia again from 1813 to 1815, it fell to the Kingdom of Hanover following the agreements of the Congress of Vienna .

Former seat of the regional president in Aurich

A provincial government based in Aurich was formed on June 17, 1817 to manage the newly acquired area . In 1823, on the basis of the Landdrostei order of April 18, 1823, the Landdrostei Aurich was formed as the central authority of the Kingdom of Hanover.

After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1867, the Hanoverian administrative structures initially remained. In 1885, the Aurich administrative district was finally formed from the Aurich district. The model was the government districts established in the other Prussian provinces in 1815/1816 . At the same time, the old Hanoverian administrative structure in cities and offices was replaced by a structure in districts .

The Prussian administrative district of Aurich, based in the city of Aurich, was an intermediate authority of the administration of the province of Hanover . It was largely congruent with the former principality of East Friesland; only the area of ​​the city of Wilhelmshaven had belonged to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg until 1853 and formed a semi- exclave of the Aurich administrative district until 1937 . The administrative district Aurich existed until February 1, 1978 and then merged with the administrative district Osnabrück and the administrative district Oldenburg in the new administrative district Weser-Ems .

Administrative division

In 1885 the administrative district of Aurich was divided into an urban district and six rural districts :

  1. Aurich district
  2. Agricultural and urban district Emden
  3. Circle empty
  4. North district
  5. Weener district
  6. Wittmund district

District Aurich in the province of Hanover

In 1919 the city of Wilhelmshaven was spun off from the Wittmund district and thus became independent. In 1932 the Weener district was dissolved and incorporated into the Leer district; at the same time, the district of Emden was dissolved and incorporated into the north district. In 1937 the independent city of Wilhelmshaven was given to the state of Oldenburg . Since 1939 all districts were called rural districts .

In 1972 and 1973 there were several border shifts between the districts of the Aurich administrative district. The community of Gödens from the district of Wittmund was incorporated into the community of Sande in the district of Friesland and thus left the administrative district.

In 1977 the north district was dissolved and incorporated into the Aurich district. At the same time, the municipalities of the district of Wittmund with the municipalities of Jever , Sande, Schortens , Wangerland and Wangerooge of the old Oldenburg district of Friesland were combined to form a new district of Friesland , whose district town became Wittmund and which belonged to the administrative district of Aurich.

The administrative district of Aurich thus finally comprised the independent city of Emden and the three districts of Aurich, Leer and Friesland. After its dissolution, the Aurich administrative district was incorporated into the new Weser-Ems administrative district on February 1, 1978 . On January 1st, 1980 the old districts of Wittmund and Friesland were restored.

Landdrosten and regional presidents

District President of the Prussian Province of East Frisia (1751–1814)

Landdrost in the Kingdom of Holland (1808–1810)

Hannoversche Landdrosten (1818–1866)

Prussian Landdrosten (1866-1885)

District President (1885–1978)

Adolf von Heppe

literature

  • Walter Deeters : Confidential reports from Landdrosten Bacmeister from Aurich 1857–1864. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen), Lax, Hildesheim 1989, ISBN 978-3784824239 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical Yearbook 1978
  2. ↑ See: Ernst Kelchner:  Derschau, Christoph Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 67.
  3. ^ District regulations for the province of Hanover (1884) .
  4. ^ Godert Alexander Gerard Philip van der Capellen in the Biographical Lexicon of the East Frisian Landscape Foundation .
  5. ↑ Hans Burchard Otto from the ceiling in the Biographical Lexicon of the East Frisian Landscape Foundation.
  6. ^ Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm von Vangerow in the Biographical Lexicon of the East Frisian Landscape Foundation.
  7. ↑ Michael Wrage: Johann Caspar von der Wisch . in the Biographical Lexicon of the East Frisian Landscape Foundation
  8. ↑ Georg Heinrich Eduard Oehlrich East Frisian in the Biographical Encyclopedia of the foundation landscape.
  9. ↑ Carl Detlev Frhr. Marschalck von Bachtenbrock on the website of the East Frisian Landscape Foundation.
  10. ↑ See: Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Bacmeister, Georg Heinrich Justus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 175-180.
  11. ↑ http://territorial.de/person/h/personha.htm