Uchte

Uchte is a patch inside the Samtgemeinde Uchte in the district of Nienburg Weser in Lower Saxony and the administrative headquarters of the velvet municipality Uchte. The first documentary point out of Uchte took place in 1196 inside the report eBooks of Hoya. In 1295, the Counts of Hoya within the village positioned a castle as a border fort against the diocese of Minden. In 1382, the Bishop of Minden, together with Count Otten von Schaumburg, conquered Uchte and destroyed the citadel. Outside the village, they constructed a new castle. By 1400 Uchte fell with the aid of conquest once more to the Counts of Hoya, who once more built a fortress.

The clashes lasted till the quit of the 16th century. 1521 fell at that time about 50 families’ comprehensive rights to the county of Hesse. In a major fire in 1726 119 houses and the church had been destroyed. 1806 Uchte was assigned French and Canton Uchte the department of Oberems based in Osnabruck. After the French occupation, the Congress of Vienna determined in 1814 to annex the Amt Uchte to the Kingdom of Hanover. In another most important fire in 1817, 58 residential buildings burned down.