Gunzenhausen District Office

49.114833333333 10.754027777778Coordinates: 49 ° N , 11 ° E

The area of the Gunzenhausen District Office

The Heydenab Palace , a temporary official seat of the Gunzenhausen District Office

The Gunzenhausen Oberamt was one of the fifteen senior offices with which the Principality of Ansbach organized the administration of its territorial property. It was located in the south-western area of the principality and, like this, was territorially highly fragmented.

The neighboring territories of the top office at the end of the 18th century were mainly to Ornbau , gap and Eichstaett -lying areas of high pin Eichstaett and located in the northeast of imperial rule Heideck who Neuburg belonged. In between was the territory around Ellingen , which was subject to the Teutonic Order . Some areas immediately adjacent to the Reich also bordered the Oberamt, the largest of which was the Pappenheim rule .

literature

Johann Bernhard Fischer : Oberamt Gunzenhausen . In: Statistical and topographical description of the Burggraftum Nürnberg, below the mountain, or the Principality of Brandenburg-Anspach. Second part. Containing the economic, statistical and moral condition of these countries according to the fifteen upper offices . Benedict Friedrich Haueisen, Ansbach 1790, p. 205-238 ( digitized version ).

Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Oberamt Gunzenhausen . In: Earth description of the Franconian principalities of Bayreuth and Anspach . Hemmerde and Schwetschke, Halle 1797, p. 375-383 ( digitized version ).

Gottfried Stieber: Ober-Amt Gunzenhausen . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 12 ( digitized version ).

Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (Ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 .

Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 .

Individual evidence

^ Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , p. 760 .
↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31, 33 .

[GeschFrankens-1] Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , p. 760 .

[BayGeschAtlas-2] Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31, 33 .