Geographical-statistical hand-lexicon about the Kingdom of Bavaria
The geographic-statistical hand-lexicon of the Kingdom of Bavaria is a directory that was compiled by the Würzburg government official Johann Valentin Grübel on his own initiative and published in 1863.
The lexicon was initiated by the administrative reform of the Kingdom of Bavaria , which came into force on July 1, 1862. Due to the separation of administration and justice, among other things, the information published up to that point was outdated. JV Grübel used the "best and most reliable sources" for the compilation.
Work description
The work has the following content: Foreword (p. 1–2), components of the Kingdom of Bavaria (p. 3–36), ecclesiastical structure (p. 37–39), military (p. 39), register of regents (p. 40–48), an alphabetical list of localities (pp. 49–436) and a correction (pp. 437–440).
The systematic part gives a short historical outline of the formation of the Kingdom of Bavaria and its state constitution. This is followed by a list of all administrative units (district offices, regional courts, forest offices, etc.), if necessary with statistical information (number of inhabitants, families, area, etc.). It follows the structure of the Catholic and Protestant Church and the structure of the military. The list of rulers indicates all dukes of Bavaria starting from the Middle Ages.
The alphabetical part lists all Bavarian localities. For each place there is information about the place type ( Weiler [W.], Dorf [D.], Pfarrdorf [Pfd.], Markt [M.], City [St.]), affiliation to the administrative district ( Upper Bavaria [Ob.], Lower Bavaria [N.], Palatinate [Pf.], Upper Palatinate and Regensburg [Opf.], Upper Franconia [Of.], Middle Franconia [M.], Lower Franconia [U.], Swabia and Neuburg [Sch.]), Responsible district office, City or regional court, district court and post office district.
evaluation
JV Grübel seems to have resorted to the lexicon The Kingdom of Bavaria by M. Siebert, published in 1840 , at least as far as the classification of the types of place is concerned. The arbitrary assignment sometimes as a village, sometimes as a hamlet, with completely different sizes, is largely adopted. JV Grübel does not provide any information about the selection criteria for the locations. It is, however, similarly arbitrary as with M. Siebert, but not identical. With some certainty you will find all the places that are parishes or have a church, as well as other places. JV Grübel did not adopt the spelling of the places and the system of listing the places from the Siebertschen-Eisenmann line.
In contrast to M. Siebert, it is no longer possible to differentiate between districts and municipalities. In addition, the village types Kirchdorf and Kirchweiler, which are only classified as villages or hamlets, are omitted.
The date and origin of the various statistical surveys are also completely unclear.
output
- Johann Valentin Grübel: Geographical-statistical hand-lexicon over the Kingdom of Bavaria . Stuber's Buchhandlung, Würzburg 1863 ( digitized ).
Remarks
- ^ Geographical-statistical hand-lexicon on the Kingdom of Bavaria , p. 1.
- ↑ An example for illustration: Deffersdorf (p. 94), which according to M. Siebert (p. 325) had 14 houses, is also classified as a hamlet, while Bürg (p. 89) with 11 houses is classified as a village becomes. Nevertheless, there are also deviations, e.g. in Ballstadt (p. 67), which is classified here as a hamlet.
- ↑ JV Grübel lists, for example, Böllingsdorf (p. 81), which cannot be found in M. Siebert. On the other hand, there is no All Saints' Day at JV Grübel.
- ↑ The place names appear unchanged at Grübel. Furthermore, the different spellings of places stand out, e.g. B. in Demantsfürth (Grübel, p. 95: Demansfurth; Siebert, p. 325: Demantsfurth), Tennenlohe (Grübel, p. 375: Tennenlohe; Siebert, p. 325: Dennelohe).