District Office Meßkirch

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The seat of the district office was Meßkirch Castle
Location of the district offices in Baden in 1890

The district office of Meßkirch was a Baden district office with the official seat in the former Fürstenbergisches Meßkirch in today's Sigmaringen district .

After the Napoleonic Wars and the peace treaty of Luneville in 1801, the political map in the south-west of Germany, which had been very fragmented until then, was radically changed, including in the area around Messkirch. The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss brought about the expropriation of the principalities and monasteries and the mediatization brought about the abolition of the imperial immediacy of the aristocratic lords and imperial cities. From 1803 there were only Baden (Electorate until 1806, then Grand Duchy), the Kingdom of Württemberg and the principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as independent states. The Messkirch area was particularly affected by this reorganization, which until then had belonged to different lords or spiritual territories.

Until then, the largest state in the region was the Principality of Fürstenberg . These included the reigns Meßkirch the same city and the places Schnerkingen , Bichtlingen , Reute , Wackershofen , Menningen , Göggingen , Rohrdorf , Heudorf and Langenhart , then the already room's time -added gentlemen Wildenstein with Leibertingen and Lengenfeld and Falkenstein Kreenheinstetten , Weiler (later Thiergarten ) and half the village of Neidingen (Unterneidingen). In 1656 the principality of Fürstenberg had also acquired the dominion of Waldsberg with the towns of Krumbach , Bietingen , Hölzle and Gallmannsweil and in 1693 also the knightly village of Boll .

The village of Sentenhart , which belonged to the rulership of Heiligenberg, and the village of Vilsingen with Dietfurt , which belonged to the rulership of Jungnau, were also Fürstenbergic until 1806 , but like half the village of Thiergarten , they had to be ceded to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1806 . The other named former Fürstenbergisch-Meßkirchischen places became with the exception of Gallmannsweil, which came to the administrative district Stockach, to the core part of the Amt Meßkirch, which was newly formed after the transition to Baden . The Office Meßkirch was subsequently unable gorgeous by decree of August 10, 1807 due Furstenberg office and belonged starting from 1809 to the Baden Seekreis newly formed. 1864 from the Office Meßkirch the district office Meßkirch , it had until 1936 inventory.

The administrative center already in Fürstenberg times was Messkirch Castle , which was built by the barons of Zimmer and was the former residence of the Prince of Fürstenberg. Up until the transition to Baden, the Fürstenberg Oberamt had also established itself there. After 1806 the Baden District Office was housed there until it was dissolved in 1936 as part of an administrative reform ordered by the National Socialists and the district of Meßkirch was incorporated into the Stockach district.

Communities

Since the unification of the districts of Stetten am kalten Markt and Meßkirch in 1849, until its dissolution in 1936, it included the following municipalities in addition to the city of Meßkirch:

In 1936 the district of Meßkirch became part of the Stockach district , which in 1973 was divided into the districts of Konstanz , Sigmaringen , Tuttlingen and Zollernalb .

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