Oberamt (Electoral Palatinate)

Up until the Thirty Years' War , the term Oberamt had not established itself in the Electoral Palatinate as a clear distinction and superiority to other offices, offices or sub-offices. Only then did the hierarchical structure emerge, so that from 1736 to the end of the Electoral Palatinate in 1803 there were a total of 19 higher offices in addition to the city offices of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Frankenthal.

Cities and their population in 1777

city	population
Mannheim	14,161
Heidelberg	10.195
Frankenthal	3,461

Upper offices and their population in 1777

Oberamt	population
Oberamt Alzey	37,985
Oberamt Bacharach	4,959
Oberamt Boxberg	3,881
Oberamt Bretten	8,548
Oberamt Kreuznach	15,537
Oberamt Germersheim	24,458
Head Office Heidelberg	41,152
Oberamt Ladenburg	4,277
Oberamt Lauterecken	4.019
Oberamt Lautern	19,670
Oberamt Lindenfels	4,170
Oberamt Mosbach	22,146
Oberamt Neustadt	29,447
Oberamt Oppenheim	10,540
Oberamt Otzberg	1.995
Oberamt Simmern	8,984
Oberamt Stromberg	4,850
Oberamt Umstatt	approx. 5000
Oberamt Veldenz	2,240

The total population was 276,681.

literature

Winfried Dotzauer: Contributions to the statistics of the electoral Palatinate upper offices at the end of the Ancien Régime and the territorial successor entities during French rule. In: Geschichtliche Landeskunde (publications by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz), Volume 22, Wiesbaden 1982, pp. 1–27.
Theodor Karst: The Upper Palatinate Office Neustadt an der Haardt. (Phil. Diss. Mainz 1960) Speyer 1960.
Meinrad Schaab: History of the Electoral Palatinate. Vol. 2, Modern Times. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-17-009877-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographic-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Pfalz am Rheine , Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1786, also Mainz studies on modern history: M. Müller: The development of the Kurrheinischen district in its connection with the Oberrheinischen district in the 18th century , Vlg. Peter Lang GmbH, Intern. Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt 2008, p. 120, 1st section
↑ only half in the Umstadt condominium with changing partners in the condominium , population figures can only be estimated according to JG Widder and Steiner: The history of the Bachgau

[1] . Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographic-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Pfalz am Rheine , Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1786, also Mainz studies on modern history: M. Müller: The development of the Kurrheinischen district in its connection with the Oberrheinischen district in the 18th century , Vlg. Peter Lang GmbH, Intern. Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt 2008, p. 120, 1st section

[2] y half in the Umstadt condominium with changing partners in the condominium , population figures can only be estimated according to JG Widder and Steiner: The history of the Bachgau