District office Neckargemünd
The district office Neckargemünd was a district office in the Grand Duchy of Baden with its seat in Neckargemünd . From 1813 to 1857 it initially consisted of 40 communities and from 1832 onwards of the 23 communities Neckargemünd, Bammental , Dilsberg , Gaiberg , Gauangelloch , Haag , Lobenfeld , Mauer , Meckesheim , Michelbach , Mönchzell , Moosbrunn , Mückenloch , Neunkirchen , Oberschwarzach , Ochsenbach , Schönbrunn , Schwanheim , Spechbach , Unterschwarzach , Waldhilsbach , Waldwimmersbach and Wiesenbach .
Emergence
In 1803, parts of the Electoral Palatinate and Speyer regions were united to form the Palatinate County of Baden and administered from Mannheim as the higher authority. The offices of Neckargemünd and Neckarschwarzach emerged as lower authorities from the previous sub-office of Dilsberg. The office Neckargemünd corresponded to the area of the Meckesheimer Zent . The middle authority was the so-called Landvogtei Dilsberg based in Heidelberg, where the Oberamt was also located. The provincial bailiffs were soon absorbed in the newly established counties. The Neckargemünder Amt belonged to the "Neckar District" with seat in Mannheim, from 1832 to the newly formed Lower Rhine District . From the offices of Neckargemünd and Neckarschwarzach, the Neckargemünd District Office was formed in 1814 according to the organizational edict of July 24, 1813.
development
The Neckargemünd district office initially comprised 40 communities: the cities of Neckargemünd and Waibstadt as well as all the towns of the Meckesheimer and Reichartshausener Centers . In 1832, as a result of the district reform, several communities had to be transferred to the district offices of Neckarbischofsheim and Neudenau. In the following years Neckargemünd lost more and more tasks to Heidelberg - despite protests from the population and the surrounding area. In 1845 the office still comprised 23 communities with 15,159 inhabitants. In 1857, jurisdiction and administration were separated in Baden. The Neckargemünd district office was dissolved and the Eberbach district office was added. Instead, Neckargemünd became the seat of one of the newly established local courts .
tasks
In the course of its existence, the Neckargemünd district office was responsible for the judiciary, the supervision of the police, the control of bridges and highways, the water customs office, the "acquisition", the domain and forest management, as well as the supervision of public welfare and security, such as maintaining a prison for the district. In the course of the existence of the district office, more and more areas were withdrawn from these tasks to Heidelberg: 1838 the acquisition, 1841 the forest management, 1843 the water customs office, after 1844 the domain management.
ladder
Head of the district office were:
- Head of Office Franz Melchior Reidel (1803 to 1816)
- Head of Office Philipp Jakob Orff (1816 to 1819)
- Administrator Jakob Wundt (1819)
- Head of Office Karl Philipp Lindemann (1819 to 1840)
- Oberamtmann Josef Rüttinger (1840 to 1848)
- Oberamtmann Wilhelm Spangenberg (1848 to 1851)
- Oberamtmann Maximilian Leers (1851 to 1854)
- Oberamtmann Wilhelm Bulster (1854 to 1857)
resolution
The Neckargemünd District Office was dissolved in 1857 and the communities belonging to it were assigned to the Eberbach District Office .
This allocation of the Neckargemünd office to the Eberbach district was heavily criticized in the following years by the population of the Neckargemünd office, although official days were held in Neckargemünd. The Heidelberger Tageblatt stated on November 15, 1859, "many a subordinate could not make up his mind to pursue his claims in Eberbach , because he had to shy away from the costs that such a long journey would cause him, especially in winter, across the Neckar In addition, there is no business dealings with Eberbach at all. If the administrative office in Neckargemünd is no longer established, the local population only shares one wish, namely that they should be assigned to the Heidelberg Oberamt . "
According to the Heidelberger Tagblatt dated March 9, 1860, the MP Schwarzmann reported to the Second Chamber of Estates of the Grand Duchy of Baden in Karlsruhe on the request of several municipalities to re-establish the Neckargemünd office. The Commission applied for the petition to be referred to the Grand Ducal Ministry of State. The President of the 2nd Chamber of Estates, Karl Junghanns, recommended that the government restore the office of Neckargemünd. The grand-ducal government commissioner then stated that the government was aware of the grievances. So far no decision has been made regarding the re-establishment of the Neckargemünd Office, because they wanted to wait and see whether the railway, which was under construction, would not be able to remedy these complaints. Chamber President Junghanns wished that the grand ducal government would end this waiting because it already knew which places the railway would "touch". The Commission's proposal was then accepted. The Neckargemünd district office was never re-established, but in 1863 the western part of the former Neckargemünd office was attached to the Heidelberg Oberamt .