District Court Ellingen

Former district court in Ellingen

The district court of Ellingen was a Bavarian district court of the older order that existed from 1852 to 1879 and was based in Ellingen in what is now the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district . The district court was located in a building that now serves as a pharmacy at Neue Gasse 1.

location

The Ellingen regional court bordered the Weißenburg regional court and the Pappenheim regional court in the south, the Pleinfeld regional court in the north, the Gunzenhausen regional court and the Heidenheim regional court in the west, and the Greding regional court in the east .

structure

In 1852, in the course of the administrative restructuring of Bavaria after the abolition of the rulership courts, the Ellingen Regional Court was established, which was originally congruent with the Ellingen rulership .

In 1856 the Ellingen District Court was 3.02 square miles and had 7,961 residents (2,455 Catholics, 5409 Protestants, and 97 Jews). There were 62 localities (1 town , 14 parish villages , 5 parish villages , 13 villages , 6 hamlets and 23 desert areas ) and 22 parishes (1 magistrate 3rd class, and 21 rural parishes):

Alesheim Bubenheim Dorsbrunn Ellingen with blister courtyards , Bräumühle , Lauterbrunnmühle , Lindenmühle , Pflügelshof, summer cellar, Walkershöfe , Ziegelstadel and Zollmühle Emetzheim Ettenstatt with Burg , Enhofen , Kruglmühle and Wöllmetzhofen dig Gundelsheim Holzingen Höttingen with Oberndorf and Ottmarsfeld Hörlbach with Massenbach

Hundsdorf with Auhof , Rohrbach and Wolfsmühle Kattenhochstatt with Metzenhof and Schertnershof Oberhochstatt with Gänswirthshaus , houses on Wülzburger Berg , Kehl , Niederhofen and Schleifer am Berg (= Wiesenmühle ?) St. Veit with Banzermühle , Gündersbach and Walkerszell Stopfenheim with Tiefenbach Störzelbach Suffersheim with hammer mill , Heuberg , Laubenthal and sub-mount mill Trommetsheim with Lengenfeld Wachenhofen with Hagenbuch Weiboldshausen Weimersheim with Dürrnhof , Fallhaus , Hattenhof and Schmalwiesen

Graben was assigned to the Pappenheim Regional Court and Oberhochstatt to the Weissenburg Regional Court. Massenbach broke away from Hörlbach and formed its own rural community.

On October 1, 1857, the communities of Bergen , Geyern , Kaltenbuch , Pfraunfeld and Thalmannsfeld were added from the district court of Greding, the community of Ramsberg from the district court of Gunzenhausen and the communities of Allmannsdorf , Mühlstetten , Pleinfeld and Stirn from the district court of Roth ,

See also

• Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district # Connection to Bavaria (from 1803), modern administration
• Weissenburg district in Bavaria
• District court Ellingen

literature

• Circle of Bavarian Scholars (Ed.): Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia (=  Bavaria. Regional and Folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Volume 3 ). Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1865, DNB  56034290X , p. 1244-1246 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : District Court Ellingen . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 706-709 ( digitized version ).
• Eduard Vetter (Hrsg.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Brügel'sche Officin, Ansbach 1856, p. 102-108 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Volkert (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 591-593 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1856, p. 102.
2. ↑ Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1856, p. 102ff.
3. ^ Gerhard Hirschmann: Eichstätt. Beilngries-Eichstätt Greding (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . I, 6). Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1959, DNB  452034655 ( digitized version ).