The Kingdom of Bavaria (1840)

The Kingdom of Bavaria is a directory compiled by Max Siebert and published in 1840. The full title is "The Kingdom of Bavaria, topographically and statistically presented in lexicographical and tabular form."

Work description

The work consists of a preface (p. 7–8), a list of abbreviations (p. 9), a brief description of the Kingdom of Bavaria (p. 11–20), each of the eight administrative districts with alphabetical lists of places (p. 21–542), a correction (pp. 543-546) and a register (pp. 549-596).

According to the preface, the basis is the Topo-Geographical-Statistical Lexicon of the Kingdom of Bavaria by Joseph Anton Eisenmann and Karl Friedrich Hohn , published in 1831/32 . Entries on mountains, forests, bodies of water, castles and wastelands were not adopted. The comments mainly from the areas of economics and history have been significantly reduced, the distance information has been omitted entirely. The place types introduced by Eisenmann were adopted ( desert , hamlet , village , church village , parish village , market and town ). The village type Kirchweiler was newly introduced. All places that have the status of a municipality are listed. According to the author, other places with less than 120 inhabitants are only listed if they “come closer to this number [n] [sc. 120] ”or by“ trade and industry related properties are strange ”. The spelling of the place names was also adopted. The locations are sorted alphabetically according to their root word: prefixes (old, new, upper case, lower case, upper, lower etc.) are attached to them. The information on religious affiliation has been consistently expanded to include Judaism. In addition, the responsible municipality is listed for the other locations, which was not yet the case with Eisenmann / Hohn.

The administrative districts are in the order Upper Bavaria (p. 23–98), Lower Bavaria (p. 99–154), Palatinate (p. 155–192), Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (p. 193–244), Upper Franconia (p. 245– 312), Middle Franconia (pp. 313–384), Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg (pp. 385–468), Schwaben and Neuburg (pp. 469–542). At the beginning, the immediate cities , regional courts and ruling courts contained therein are listed in tabular form with the number of inhabitants. The locations included are listed in alphabetical order according to the author's edition guidelines.

criticism

There is considerable imprecision in the delimitation of the village and hamlet types . For example, Anwanden (p. 317) is classified as a hamlet with 13 houses, while Alberndorf (p. 315) is classified as a village with the same number of houses. Another problem is the arbitrary selection of other places with less than 120 inhabitants. It is left to chance whether a place was listed or not. This is the case for Neuhöflein (p. 355), for example, although at that time it had 79 inhabitants and was far below the 120 inhabitant mark and in no way had any oddities to offer.

The date and origin of the various statistical surveys are also completely unclear. As far as the number of inhabitants and houses is concerned, a comparison with the “Cadastre of the localities, the population and the buildings” published in 1840 does not show any agreement.

output

• Johann Max Siebert: The Kingdom of Bavaria presented topographically and statistically in lexicographical and tabular form . Georg Franz, Munich 1840 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Further examples: Deffersdorf (p. 325) is classified as a hamlet with its 14 houses, but Bürg (p. 322), which only had 11 houses, was considered a village. Buhlsbach (p. 323) with its 10 houses is classified as a Kirchweiler (otherwise wrong, since Buhlsbach never had a church), while Altenberg (p. 316) with 9 houses was designated as a church village.