Oberamt Uffenheim

The Oberamt Uffenheim was one of the 15 administrative areas of the Principality of Ansbach . From 1791/92 the principality of Ansbach was administered by the Prussian state as Ansbach-Bayreuth . The Oberamt Uffenheim was thus incorporated into the Uffenheim district .

location

The Oberamt Uffenheim had no contiguous area. It bordered the Oberamt Creglingen and the Hochstift Würzburg in the west, the Brandenburg-Bayreuth Oberamt Hoheneck in the east, the Imperial City of Rothenburg in the south and Oberamt Hoheneck in the north with the Principality of Schwarzenberg and the Hochstift Würzburg.

structure

The Oberamt Uffenheim was made up of the caste and municipal bailiff office Uffenheim, the caste office Mainbernheim, the caste office Prichsenstadt, the caste office Castell or Kleinlankheim and the bailiwick office Giebelstadt. Each office was also a Fraisch district .

In the Oberamt Uffenheim there were 59 places, including 3 towns, 2 market towns, 18 parish villages , 7 church villages , 1 castle, 10 hamlets and 18 individual farms or mills. There were a total of 2178 subject families, 1575 were Ansbach and 603 were foreigners.

Caste and Bailiwick Office Uffenheim

The Uffenheim caste and bailiwick office had landlords (in brackets, the number of properties over which the Uffenheim office had landlord claims, then the total number of properties): Adelhofen (43/43), Auernhofen (31/31), Brackenlohr (9th century) : / 10), Custenlohr (26/27), Equarhofen (36/45), Ergersheim (36/129), Ermetzhofen (22/48), Geleinsmühle (0/1), Grabenmühle (1/1), Großharbach (0 / 22), Herrnberchtheim (45/53), Hinterpfeinach (5/5), Hohlach (20/37), Holzhausen (14/19), Hummelsberg (2/2), Kellermühle (1/1), Kleinharbach (12/12 ), Langensteinach (43/49), Lichtenau (0/0), Mittlere Mühle (1/1), Mörlbach (31/31), Neuherberg (18/18), Obermühle near Uffenheim (1/1), Obermühle near Ermetzhofen (0/1), Rannachmühle (1/1), Riedmühle (1/1), Rudolzhofen (30/30), Seemühle (0/1), Seenheim (13/27), Simmershofen (16/22), Simonsmühle ( 1/1), Uffenheim (205/205), Ulsenheim (34/88), Uttenhofen (15/19), Unterickelsheim (28/32), Vorderpfeinach (5/7), Walkershofen (0/20), Wallmersbach (48 / 55), We Ibhausen (78/78), Wiebelsheim (0/39).

Box office Mainbernheim

The Mainbernheim caste office had manors in the following places:

Hohenfeld (43/78), Mainbernheim (209/209), Michelfeld (35/41).

Caste Office Prichsenstadt

The caste office in Prichsenstadt had manors in the following places:

Prichsenstadt (124/124), Kleinschönbach (10/10).

Caste office in Castell- or Kleinlangheim

The Castell- or Kleinlangheim caste office had manors in the following places:

Hammermühle (1/1), Haid (12/12), Kastnersmühle (0/1), Kleinlangheim (126/190), Neumühle (1/1), Neuses (33/81), Sandmühle (0/1), Stephansberg (6/6), Stierhöfstetten (18/26), Weidenmühle (1/1), Wiesenbronn (54/148), Wutschenmühle (1/1).

Bailiwick of Giebelstadt

The Bailiwick of Giebelstadt only had land control over 29 properties in Giebelstadt .

literature

• Johann Bernhard Fischer : Oberamt Uffenheim . In: Statistical and topographical description of the Burggraftum Nürnberg, below the mountain, or the Principality of Brandenburg-Anspach. Second part. Containing the economic, statistical and moral condition of these countries according to the fifteen upper offices . Benedict Friedrich Haueisen, Ansbach 1790, p. 343-370 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Oberamt Uffenheim . In: Earth description of the Franconian principalities of Bayreuth and Anspach . Hemmerde and Schwetschke, Halle 1797, p. 410-417 ( digitized version ).
• Gottfried Stieber: Ober-Amt Uffenheim . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 14-15 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} J. B. Fischer, p. 345.
2. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 362.
3. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 356ff.
4. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 358.
5. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 358.
6. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 359ff.
7. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 361.