Herrschaft Schauen

Herrschaft Schauen, consisting solely of the village of the same name, was a possession of the Abbacy of Walkenried (in Ecclesiastical Germany) after 1200. Sovereignty passed to the County of Stolberg-Wernigerode in 1530, which administered it until 1601. At that time, administrative responsibility (but not sovereignty) was turned over first to Statius von Münchhausen, the Drost of Grohnde (hence, the simplified name of Stolberg-Wernigerode-Grohnde), and then in 1616 to the Halberstadt cathedral chapter (simplified name—Stolberg-Wernigerode-Halberstadt). The Stolbergians (whose country was partitioned in 1645) lost sovereignty under the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, leaving Schauen in Minor-Dynastic Germany). Administrative responsibilities, however, still fell to foreigners—officials of Lüneberg-Celle until 1665 and of Waldeck-Eisenberg until 1689. At that time, Schauen became self-governing.

 

In 1816, beyond the scope of this project, Schauen was incorporated into Prussia and was initially assigned to Kreis Osterwieck. In 1825, it was shifted to Kreis Halberstadt, where it remained until 1932.