Ammanamt (Ellwangen)

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The Ammanamt (also called Burgamt Ellwangen in the Middle Ages ) was an office of the prince- provost of Ellwangen attested to since 1337 .

Coat of arms of the Prince Provost of Ellwangen

history

The head of the office, a bourgeois Amman, was the district's chief administrative, financial and judicial clerk. Until the establishment of his own rent master's office in 1612, he was also the central financial officer of the Ellwang territory. The seat of the Amman was Ellwangen . The administrative district included the royal seat and the surrounding area, mainly in the north and northwest.

The powers of the Amman in the city of Ellwangen itself, however, were limited to a few administrative matters in favor of the Vicedom and City Schools Office . Its official parish remained essentially the same from the Middle Ages until the dissolution of the prince's provosty (1802/03). Only the former sub-offices of Pfahlheim and Röhlingen to the west of Ellwangen were separated from the Amman office after the acquisition of Rötlen Castle in 1471 and merged with the newly acquired area to form the Office of Rötlen .

The wide expansion of the Ammanamt made the formation of sub-offices necessary. They were administered by mayors from the end of the 17th century. The sub-offices were:

After the prince provost of Ellwangen passed to Württemberg in the course of secularization , the Ammanamt was dissolved and most of its district was incorporated into the newly formed Oberamt Ellwangen . The northern part around Stimpfach came after 1810 to the Crailsheim District Office .

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