Oberamt Blaubeuren

Map of the Württemberg upper offices, as of 1926

The Oberamt Blaubeuren was an administrative district in Württemberg (on attached map # 6) , which was renamed the Blaubeuren district in 1934 and dissolved in 1938, with its communities belonging to the Ehingen and Ulm districts. For general comments on the Württemberg upper offices, see Oberamt (Württemberg) .

history

Oberamt Blaubeuren, territorial status 1813, with the earlier rule and office boundaries
legend

In the 14th century, the decline of the Counts of Helfenstein created a power vacuum in their home country, the part of the Swabian Alb between Blau and Oberer Fils . The up-and-coming imperial city of Ulm used this for territorial expansion, while Württemberg was initially unable to expand its area beyond Münsingen and Laichingen. It was not until 1447 that the town and rule of Blaubeuren were acquired , which were incorporated into the administrative structure as the Blaubeuren office. The bailiwick of the wealthy Benedictine monastery was also connected to this property . In the course of the Reformation, the monastery was converted into a Protestant monastery school, and from then on its property was administered as a monastery office.

Bavaria initially benefited from the upheavals of the Napoleonic era in the Ulm area, to which the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803 allocated imperial urban territory. Württemberg received Schelklingen and Urspring through the Peace of Pressburg in 1805, and in the following year, with the Rhine Confederation Act, the German-Nordic rule of Arnegg . In 1807, the Blaubeuren municipal and monastery authorities were merged to form the new Blaubeuren regional authority, and in 1808 part of the short-lived regional authority in Urspring was incorporated. In 1810 Bavaria ceded a large part of the territories acquired in 1803 to Württemberg by means of a state treaty, which brought the Oberamt Blaubeuren considerable area growth in the north and east. Neighbors of the district assigned to the Danube District from 1818 to 1924 were the regional authorities Geislingen , Münsingen , Ehingen and Ulm after the reorganization .

After the Blaubeuren district was dissolved in 1938, almost all cities and municipalities became part of the Ulm district , only the city of Schelklingen and the communities of Schmiechen and Hausen ob Urspring went to the Ehingen district .

Former gentlemen

In 1813, after the regional reform was completed, the district was made up of parts that had belonged to the following rulers in 1800:

• Duchy of Württemberg
  • Secular Oberamt ("Stadtoberamt") Blaubeuren: City of Blaubeuren, Asch, Beiningen , Berghülen with meeting book , Bühlenhausen , Gerhausen , Pappelau , special book , suppingen and the Württemberg parts of Markbronn, Dietingen and Wippingen ;
  • Blaubeuren Monastery Authority : the former Blaubeuren monastery, Erstetten , Lautern, Machtolsheim, Seißen, Weiler and the Württemberg part of Ringingen.
• Vorderösterreich
  In addition to the town of Schelklingen , the Urspring Monastery with the villages of Hausen ob Urspring and Schmiechen and the hamlet of Sotzenhausen were under Austrian sovereignty.
• Imperial City of Ulm , "Lower Rulership"
  • Office Bermaringen: Bermaringen , Scharenstetten , Radelstetten, Temmenhausen ;
  • Office Nellingen: Nellingen, Merklingen.
• German medal
  • Upcoming Altshausen: Lordship of Arnegg with Eggingen (2/3), Ermingen and shares of Markbronn, Dietingen and Wippingen.
  • Coming Ulm: Bollingen with Böttingen , parts of Weidach and Wippingen.
• Elchingen Monastery , Tomerdingen Care Office: Tomerdingen, Dornstadt.
• Söflingen Monastery : Eggingen (1/3), Schaffelkingen, part of Wippingen.
• Kaisheim Monastery : Aichen.
• Imperial Knighthood
  In the knightly canton of Danube of the Swabian knighthood, the Herrlingen-Klingenstein lordship of the Barons von Bernhausen was enrolled.

Characteristic of the area in the transition area between Württemberg and Austrian influence, far from the centers of power, were the many condominiums . In places like Markbronn-Dietingen, Wippingen and Weidach, none of the landlords succeeded in deriving the undisputed sovereignty from their rights ; Village rules regulated common rule. An extreme example was Ringingen, which developed into a free spot in the late Middle Ages in the conflict between the landlords (at times over ten) and was able to maintain this status until the beginning of the 19th century, regardless of the sovereignty claimed by Württemberg.

Communities

Population figures 1830

The following 32 mayor's offices or municipalities were subordinate to the Blaubeuren Oberamt:

No.	former parish	Population 1830		today's parish
		evangel.	catholic
1	Blaubeuren	1810	3	Blaubeuren
2	Arneck 1	-	386	Bluestone
3	Ash	604	-	Blaubeuren
4th	Beiningen	157	-	Blaubeuren
5	Berghulen	683	-	Berghulen
6th	Bermaringen	716	-	Bluestone
7th	Billenhausen 2	191	-	Berghulen
8th	Bollingen	-	370	Dornstadt
9	Dornstatt 3	-	467	Dornstadt
10	Eckingen 4	-	256	Ulm
11	Ermingen	-	272	Ulm
12	Gerhausen	555	-	Blaubeuren
13	Hausen ob Urspring	-	301	Rogue blades
14th	Herrlingen	-	457	Bluestone
15th	Klingenstein	-	298	Bluestone
16	Machtolsheim	634	-	Laichingen
17th	Markbronn	181	84	Bluestone
18th	Merklingen	663	-	Merklingen
19th	Nellingen	853	-	Nellingen
20th	Poplarau	467	-	Blaubeuren
21st	Radelstetten	113	-	Lonsee
22nd	Ringingen	2	632	Erbach
23	Scharenstetten	439	-	Dornstadt
24	Rogue blades	17th	1055	Rogue blades
25th	Smack	7th	310	Rogue blades
26th	Eating	581	-	Blaubeuren
27	Sunderbuch 5	209	-	Blaubeuren
28	Soup	412	-	Laichingen
29	Themmenhausen 6	311	-	Dornstadt
30th	Tomerdingen	-	740	Dornstadt
31	hamlet	242	-	Blaubeuren
32	Wippingen	296	85	Bluestone
	total	10.195	5.738

today's notation:

¹

Arnegg ,

²

Buhlenhausen ,

³

Dornstadt ,

^4th

Eggingen ,

⁵

Special book ,

^6th

Temmenhausen

Changes in the community since 1813

Parishes and marks around 1860

Around 1830 Radelstetten was separated from Scharenstetten and raised to the status of an independent municipality. Also around 1830, Erstetten was reassigned from Ringingen to Pappelau.

In 1834, Sotzenhausen, which had belonged to Schmiechen and then to Schelklingen until around 1825, was transferred to Pappelau. In the same year Muschenwang was umgemeindet from Schmiechen to Hausen ob Urspring.

In 1933 Gleißenburg was changed from Pappelau to Blaubeuren.

In 1934 Gerhausen and Altental were incorporated into Blaubeuren.

Head of office

• 1788–1811: Friedrich Ludwig von Kauffmann (1765–1843)
• 1811–1838: Karl Heinrich Drescher (1783–?)
• 1838–1845: Christian Friedrich Schaible (1791–1845)
• 1846–1856: Philipp Gottlieb Osiander (1803–1876)
• 1856–1875: Ludwig Muff (1806–1882)
• 1876–1883: Carl von Huzel (1841–1904)
• 1883–1888: Gotthold Kuhn (1846–?)
• 1888–1892: Karl Seitz (1856–?)
• 1892–1901: Otto Vogt (1856–1929)
• 1901–1919: Friedrich Bürner (1861–1926)
• 1919–1928: Karl Rilling (1869–1928)
• 1928–1933: Franz Bertsch (1868–1951)
• 1933–1938: Artur Fiederer (1881–1946)

literature

• Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger : Description of the Oberamt Blaubeuren . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1830. Reprint Bissinger, Magstadt, ISBN 3-7644-0007-2 .
• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 .

Web links

Wikisource: Description of the Blaubeuren Oberamt from 1830  - sources and full texts

Commons : Oberamt Blaubeuren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Holdings F 156 of the Ludwigsburg State Archives (files from the Blaubeuren Office)