Aschaffenburg Department

The department of Aschaffenburg was an administrative unit in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt between 1810 and 1813. In the state calendar of 1812 , the area of ​​the department was given as approximately 30 to 34 square miles (about 1650 to 1870 square kilometers), the population as 91,296 souls . There were 16,032 fire pits in the 177 communities .

history

The department of Aschaffenburg was formed in 1810 from the Principality of Aschaffenburg , one of the predecessor states of the Grand Duchy. After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the Grand Duchy fell apart. The area of ​​the department of Aschaffenburg became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814 .

structure

The internal structure was partially retained through the change of rule. The former Kurmainzischen offices and upper offices were now called district , their administrative capitals Mairie . There were a total of 21 districts with 177 municipalities , namely:

• From the former Vizedomamt Aschaffenburg the district mairies city ​​of Aschaffenburg (with dam) , Schweinheim , Obernburg , Kleinwallstadt , Rothenbuch and Kaltenberg ,
• From the Oberamt Orb the district mairies Orb and Burgjoss , to which the former Würzburg Office Aura was added,
• From the Oberamt Lohr the district mairies Lohr and Frammersbach
• The Aufenau district mairie
• The parts of the former Oberamt Miltenberg located to the right of the Main , namely the district mairies Klingenberg and Stadtprozelten
• In addition, there were the former imperial city or imperial knighthood areas mediated with the Rheinbund act in 1806, namely the district mairies Kreuzwertheim , Eschau , Krombach , Rieneck , Rothenfels , Triefenstein , Hoppach and Fechenbach .

15 districts were directly subordinate to the Aschaffenburg prefecture , 4 belonged to the Klingenberg sub-prefecture and 2 to the Orb sub-prefecture.

people

At the head of the department was Prefect Carl Joseph Wilhelm Will .

Department Council

Were members of the twelve-member department council

• Bernhard Sebastian von Nau
• Johann Adam Eisenberger
• Peter Joseph Firnbach
• Domenicus Frank
• Franz Helwerk
• Philipp Casimir
• Moor, Centschöff zu Kredenbach
• Rerrod, iron manufacturer at Heimbuchenthal
• Georg Adam Schleenstein
• Johann Schmitt , Mayor of Orb
• Leonhard Sickenberger
• Ignatz Will

literature

• Peter Adolph Winkopp : Attempt of a topographical-statistical description of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . Frankfurt am Main 1812, (digitized version)
• Konrad M. Färber, Albrecht Klose, Hermann Reidel (eds.): Carl von Dalberg. Archbishop and statesman (1744–1817). Mittelbayerische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 3-927529-03-6 (exhibition catalog).
• Hermann Ketterer : The Principality of Aschaffenburg and its transition to the Crown of Bavaria. Festschrift for the memory of the century. On behalf of the Aschaffenburg City Council. Aschaffenburg Magistrate, Aschaffenburg 1915.
• Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Historischer Atlas von Bayern. Part: Franconia. Row 1, Issue 12: Günter Christ: Aschaffenburg. Main features of the administration of the Mainz Oberstift and the Dalberg State. Commission for Bavarian State History and others, Munich and others in 1963.
• State calendar of the Grand Ducal City and the Department of Frankfurt: 1812, p. 93 ff. Digitized