Amt Pyrmont, Quasi-Vogtei Lügde (prior to 1668)

Amt Lügde...............................................(from 1668 on)

Amt Pyrmont consisted of what had been the sovereign County of Pyrmont prior to 1494 when its count died and it was inherited by the Count of Spiegelberg. I designate villages in the Amt over which the count had full administrative responsibilities as “Quasi-Vogtei Pyrmont”. I designate villages in which administrative responsibilities were shared with Paderborn as “Quasi-Vogtei Lügde”. Paderborn assumed full responsibility for Lügde in 1668, whereupon the former “quasi-Vogtei” became an Amt. It retained that status until 1803, when it was absorbed onto the Oberwaldischer Kreis.