Remontedepot Havelberg

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The Remontedepot Havelberg was a royal Prussian military facility and administrative unit based in Havelberg (today the district of Stendal , Saxony-Anhalt ). In 1905 there were 18 Prussian remonted depots, the task of which was to train horses for various uses in the army. The Remontedepot Havelberg was the first of its kind in what was then the province of Brandenburg . It was founded in the Vorwerk Wöplitz in 1824, but was dissolved again in 1832.

General history of the remounted depots

The royal Prussian army needed a constant supply of horses for its cavalry units. The army did not breed their own horses, but bought three to four year old horses from private individuals or landowners. T. operated on a larger scale. The future army horses were called remonts, who were fed and trained for their duties in the army in so-called remonted depots. In 1821 the first remonted depot in Prussia was set up in Neuhof near Treptow an der Rega (today Trzebiatów in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship , Poland). In 1888 there were 15 remonted depots in Prussia, which trained around 7,300 horses. In 1905 there were even 18 remonted depots with 9550 horses. Most of the remonted depots of the Prussian army were in East and West Prussia, where horse breeding was practiced on a large scale.

The remontedepot Havelberg

The Remontedepot Havelberg was established in 1824. It was designed to accommodate 350 to 400 horses (or remonts). It was originally intended as a remonted depot for the IV Army Corps , whose general command had its headquarters in Magdeburg from 1818 or in Erfurt from 1822 to 1826, then again in Magdeburg. The seat of the royal remont administration was in the cathedral district of Havelberg. The stables were set up in the Vorwerk Wöplitz (today part of the city of Havelberg) east of Havelberg. In October 1825 fodder was estimated to be 150 bison oats, 1,700 quintals of hay and 180 shock straw. The Remonten were on buying markets in Wernigerode , Osterwieck , Egeln , Wolmirstedt , Oebisfelde , Salzwedel , Calbe , Stendal and in Seehausen , such. B. took place in August 1829, bought by a military commission. In the more distant markets, the horses were immediately taken from the sellers. The sellers in the markets in Stendal and Seehausen, however, had to bring the Remonten to Havelberg and received their payment there. In 1831, even sellers at the buying markets in Wusterhausen , Fehrbellin , Rathenow , Salzwedel, Stendal, Seehausen, Wilsnack , Lenzen , Perleberg and Havelberg had to bring their horses to Havelberg.

In 1832 the lease for the Wöplitz Vorwerk was terminated and put out to tender. The remontedepot Havelberg was abandoned because of the frequent flooding of the horse pastures, the poor field and the too expensive feeding of the horses.

Administrator

  • 1825 Dr. Karl August Ramdohr, Administrator, received the title of Oberamtmann in 1825

literature

  • Ernst Oswald Mentzel: The remounting of the Prussian Army in its historical development and current form: as a contribution to the history of the Prussian military constitution; with higher permission and use of official sources. Theil 1. 441 S., Berlin, 1845 (in the following abbreviated to Mentzel, remounting with corresponding page number)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Prussian War Ministry: The royal. Prussian War Ministry, 1809-1. March 1909: With the utmost permission of Sr. Majesty the Emperor and King for unofficial use. 458 p., War Ministry Commission publishing house Invalidendank, 1909.
  2. ^ Author collective (ed.): Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 13th volume. Publishing house of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, fourth edition, 1888 PDF (p. 722)
  3. ^ Author collective (ed.): Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 16th volume. Publishing house of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, 1905 p. 794
  4. ^ Karl Wilhelm Ammon: About the improvement and refinement of state horse breeding by state stud establishments; with special consideration for Bavaria, Part Two. 277 pp., Nürnberg, Riegel and Wießner, 1830 Online at Google Books (p. 250)
  5. ↑ Snippets from Google Books
  6. ↑ http://books.google.de/books?id=egJPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA128&dq=Remonte+Havelberg&hl=de&sa=X&ei=IxGgUtTGJZDItAbquIDQDA&ved=0CHkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Remonte20Havelseberg&
  7. ↑ a b Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government at Frankfurth an der Oder, year 1825, issue 27, from July 6, 1825 online at Google Books (p. 270)
  8. ↑ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Magdeburg, year 1829, 28th issue, from July 18, 1829 online at Google Books (p. 194)
  9. ↑ http://books.google.de/books?id=eCU_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA210 Remonte purchase of three-year-old horses in the Marken pro 1831 Official Journal, p. 225/6.
  10. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin, year 1832, extra sheet for the 20th issue, from May 18, 1832 online at Google Books
  11. ↑ Mentzel, Remontierung, p. 162 Online at Google Books
  12. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin, Issue 30, July 30, 1825, p. 169.