Amt Hatzburg

Verwaltung Hatzburg and Vogtei Ottensen

Stadt Altona, and Kanzleigut Flottbek

Hatzburg castle was built near the Elbe River around 1300 and became the seat of an Amt in the County of Holstein-Pinneberg. In 1640, when the County fell to Holstein, the Ämter were replaced with smaller subdivisions. The villages previously in Amt Hatzburg were divided between two of those subdivisions—Vogtei Ottensen closer to Hamburg, and the larger Verwaltung Hatzburg further downstream.

 

In 1664, Altona left Vogtei Ottensen and became a stand-alone Stadt. In 1785, uninhabited portions of Groß and Klein Flottbek left the Herrschaft and became a park, organized as a Kanzleigut directly under the king. In 1803, Spitzerdorf joined Verwaltung Hatzburg, having previously been administered by the Hamburg Cathedral Chapter;