Wertingen District Court

The Wertingen Regional Court was an office in Wertingen that was established around 1768. Through the secularization of 1802/03 new areas were added to Bavaria and made an administrative reorganization necessary. The district court of Wertingen has now been enlarged and had around 16,000 inhabitants in an area of around 300 square kilometers.

The district court Wertingen sat together first from the former district court Wertingen, former Pflegamt Westendorf of the Bishopric of Augsburg , the former Obervogt Office Zusamaltheim the cathedral chapter Augsburg , former Obervogt Office Binswangen the prince pin Kempten , the former top official of the monastery Fultenbach , the former Office Altenmuenster the monastery Oberschönenfeld , the former Pfaffenhofen office of the canonical monastery St. Stephan in Augsburg, the former Thürheim nursing office of the Kaisheim monastery , the village Wengen (formerly belonging to the Sankt Ulrich and Afra monastery in Augsburg), the parish village of Hegnenbach (formerly belonging to the Heilig Kreuz monastery in Augsburg ) as well as other smaller possessions.

Places of the regional court

At the end of the 1830s, the Wertingen district court consisted of the following immediate communities (with population figures ): Affaltern 298, Biberbach 593, Binswangen 981, Bliensbach 207, Bocksberg 359, Buttenwiesen 731, Eisenbrechtshofen 172, Emersacker 533, Erlingen 237, Feigenhofen 178, Frauenstetten 212, Gottmannshofen 358, Hegnenbach 336, Herbertshofen 342, Hettlingen 140, Hirschbach 53, Hohenreichen 267, Kühlenthal 236, Langenreichen 387, Laugna 492, Lauterbrunn 286, Markt 326, Oberthürheim 268, Ostendorf 172, Pfaffenhofen 629, Prettelshofen 164, Rieblingen 304, Roggden 219 , Sontheim 211, Unterthürheim 615, Villenbach 395, Wengen 215, Wertingen 1590, Westendorf 501, Wortelstetten 407, Zusamaltheim 481 and Zusamzell 200.Indirectly , Holzen with Allmannshofen 475, Druisheim 329, Heretsried 280, Osterbuch 230 and Meitingen with 235 inhabitants belonged to it .

Conversion of the regional courts

On July 1, 1862, the district offices in Bavaria were established and the administration of justice and administration were separated. The administrative authorities were given the designation district office . In 1862 the district court was established in administrative terms, the district office Wertingen , the administration of justice institutions continued to use the designation district court until January 1, 1879, when they were converted into local courts due to the nationwide court constitution law . The Wertingen District Court existed from 1879 to 1973.

literature

Wilhelm Volkert (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 .
The district of Dillingen ad Donau, past and present . Ed. from the district of Dillingen an der Donau, 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, p. 102.