Oberamt Hohentrüdingen

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The Oberamt Hohentrüdingen was one of the 15 administrative areas of the Principality of Ansbach with its seat at Hohentrüdingen Castle in what is now the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district .

The following lordly offices belonged to the Oberamt Hohentrüdingen:

  • Heidenheim monastery administration office
  • Caste Office Hohentrüdingen
  • Judge's office in Heidenheim
  • Administration office Berolzheim
  • Administrator's office in Rechenberg
  • Monastery administrator and judge office Solnhofen
  • Judge's office in Wettelsheim
  • Administration office Treuchtlingen
  • Judge's office in Wettelsheim.

The Oberamt was divided into four Fraisch districts:

  • Heidenheim
  • Hohentrüdingen
  • Solnhofen
  • Treuchtlingen.

In the Oberamt Hohentrüdingen there were 4 market towns, 23 parish villages, 2 branch church villages, 23 hamlets, 2 chapels and 49 individual farms or mills, in which 2323 subject families lived, of which 1685 were Ansbach and 638 were foreigners.

From 1791/92 the principality of Ansbach was administered by the Prussian state as Ansbach-Bayreuth . With that the Oberamt Hohentrüdingen became part of the Wassertrüdinger district .

literature

  • Johann Bernhard Fischer : Oberamt Hohentrüdingen . 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. 239-274 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Oberamt Hohentrüdingen . In: Earth description of the Franconian principalities of Bayreuth and Anspach . Hemmerde and Schwetschke, Halle 1797, p. 383-393 ( digitized version ).
  • Gottfried Stieber: Ober-Amt Hohentrüdingen . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 12-13 ( digitized version ).