Oberamt 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.
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
- 1315 Berthold von Bretheim
- 1335 Ludwig von Stein
- 1373 Weiprecht I. von Helmstatt († December 5, 1408)
- 1394 Weiprecht II of Helmstatt († April 25, 1421)
- 1408 Leonhard von Sickingen († August 4, 1418)
- 1428 to 1438 Schwickart the Elder of Sickingen († before 1468)
- 1440 to 1442 Hans the Rich of Gemmingen († 1490)
- 1459 Schwickart the Younger of Sickingen († August 4, 1478)
- 1474 Weiprecht III. von Helmstatt († 1478)
- 1478 Hanns von Neipperg
- 1480 Georg I. Göler of Ravensburg (* 1440; † June 5, 1502)
- 1504 Konrad von Sickingen
- 1508 Erpf Ulrich von Flehingen († 1542)
- 1527 Wolf Ulrich von Flehingen (* 1479; † 1553)
- 1548 Georg von Altdorf (called: Wollschläger)
- 1557 Eberhard von Venningen
- 1567 Hartmannus Hartmanni the Younger (* 1523; † 1586)
- 1569 Johann Philipp Landschad von Steinach (* 1552; † September 15, 1592)
- 1592 Johann Reyprecht von Büdingen
- 1620 Johann Casimir (I.) Kolb von Wartenberg (* July 11, 1584; † September 22, 1661)
- 1651 Anton Christof Schuez von Holzhausen
- 1654 Franz Rudolf von Sparr
- 1668 Heinrich Burkhard von Dallwig
- 1680 Christof Clos of Neuchâtel
- 1686 Franz von Sickingen (* February 8, 1629; † 1715)
- 1705 Johann Ferdinand von Sickingen († 1719)
- 1719 Carl von Sickingen
- 1737 Heinrich Wilhelm von Sickingen
- 1757 Josef Karl von und zu Sickingen († 1787)
- 1785 Johann Bernhard Georg Edler von Reisenbach
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.