Oberamt Bretten

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Upper Palatinate Office, 16 = Upper Office Bretten

The Oberamt Bretten was an Electoral Palatinate administrative and judicial district in today's Baden-Wuerttemberg . It existed from 1352 to 1803.

Territory until 1747

After acquiring the city of Bretten and part of the city of Heidelsheim , the Count Palatinate near Rhine appointed a Vogt who was responsible for both cities in the mid-14th century to protect his rights . With the purchase of part of the village of Weingarten (1370) and the redemption of the town of Eppingen , pledged by the empire to the margrave of Baden, in 1383, the district of the bailiff of Bretten increased. After acquiring the remaining part of Weingarten (1470) and the village of Rinklingen (until 1478), the Oberamt Bretten consisted of the towns of Bretten, Eppingen and Heidelsheim and the villages of Rinklingen and Weingarten. There were also villages that were under Palatinate protection but belonged to foreign landlords or monasteries. These were: Gölshausen , Unteröwisheim , Zaisenhausen , Sprantal , Bauerbach , Diedelsheim , Mühlbach and Staffort .

The Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648 reduced the population enormously.

Population numbers
place 1615 1649 1690 1760
Boards 313 138 82 300
Eppingen 247 84 187 240
Heidelsheim 236 67 56 200
Rinklingen 24 ? 11 100
Vineyard 283 58 88 250
Mühlbach 70 ? 67 ?
Helmsheim ? 16 67 90

Territory around 1779

The Upper Palatinate Office of Bretten now included the places Bretten, Diedelsheim, Eppingen, Gölshausen, Heidelsheim, Mühlbach, Rinklingen, Weingarten and Zaisenhausen.

Due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and the dissolution of the Electoral Palatinate, the Oberamt Bretten fell to Baden in 1803 , which changed the administrative district and created the Baden District Office Bretten .

Office building

The first office building in Bretten fell victim to the destruction of the Palatinate War of Succession . In 1783/84 a new office building was built by the Bruchsal master builder Jacob Messing. A two-story solid building was built on Tempelhausplatz. The Bretten district office also had its official seat there until its dissolution in 1936.

Bailiffs and bailiffs

literature

  • Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographic-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Pfalz am Rheine , Part Two, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1786, pp. 183–225.
  • Otto Beuttenmüller: The bailiffs in the Oberamt Bretten . In: Brettener Jahrbuch , Volume 5, 1972/73, pp. 89-96.
  • Otto Bickel: The tribute of the Palatinate Oberamt Bretten for the Count Palatine Ottheinrich 1556/58 . In: Bretten Yearbook for Culture and History 1983/84 , Volume 6, Bretten 1984, pp. 71–88.
  • Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe. Biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997 . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , p. 22.
  • Julius Friedrich Kastner: The former Upper Palatinate Office and Baden District Office Bretten . In: Bretten Yearbook for Culture and History , Volume 4, Bretten 1967, pp. 181–195.