Ribe Office (before 1970)

Location of the Ribe Office in Denmark

Ribe office

Ribe Office (named after the city of Ribe ) was one of the offices in Denmark at that time until the Danish municipal reform on April 1, 1970 . It was created in 1793 from the previous Riberhus office . The office covered areas of several medieval Syssel : Vardesyssel , Jellingsyssel , Almindsyssel , Barvidsyssel and Ellumsyssel .

Most of the Ribe Amt belonged to the Duchy of Schleswig until the German-Danish War in 1864 , but following the war there was an exchange of land for the royal enclaves acquired by Queen Margaret I in the Middle Ages . Denmark renounced the enclaves (except Ribe), and could instead keep Ribe Herred , Nørre Tyrstrup Herred (until then Haderslev Amt , then Vejle Amt ) and the island of Ærø ( Ærø Herred , until then Nordborg Amt , then Svendborg Amt ).

Ribe Amt consisted of eight Harden ( Danish : Herred ):

• For herred
• Gørding Herred
• Paint Herred
• Ribe Herred
• Skast Herred
• Slavs Herred
• Vester Horne Herred
• Øster Horne Herred

The following cities were in office (Danish: Købstad ):

• Ribe
• Varde
• Esbjerg

With the local reform in 1970, six parishes of the Harde Anst were added to the Vejle Office :

• Seest Sogn became part of the Kolding_Kommune

• Hjarup Sogn and
• Vamdrup Sogn became part of the Vamdrup municipality

• Jordrup Sogn ,
• Lejrskov Sogn and
• Skanderup Sogn formed the Lunderskov Commune

At the same time the parishes were

• Hviding Sogn ,
• Roager Sogn and
• Spandet Sogn from Harde Hviding Herred in Tønder Amt was added to the “new” Ribe Amt .

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• DIS-Danmark: Amt-Herred-Sogn (Danish)

The eastern part of the Ribe Amt ca.1900

The western part of the Ribe Amt ca.1900

Web links

Commons : Ribe Amt  - collection of images, videos and audio files