Oberamt Horb
The Oberamt Horb was an administrative district in Württemberg (on attached map # 24) , which was renamed District Horb in 1934 and enlarged in 1938 to include the main part of the Sulz district and some communities in the Nagold and Rottenburg districts to form the Horb district . For general remarks on the Württemberg upper offices, see Oberamt (Württemberg) .
history
The Oberamt was established in 1807 and consisted mainly of former Austrian or knightly places that had come under Württemberg sovereignty as a result of the Pressburg Peace and the Rhine Confederation Act . Neighbors of the district, which was part of the Black Forest District from 1818 to 1924, were the Württemberg regional authorities Nagold , Herrenberg , Rottenburg , Freudenstadt and the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, which became Prussian in 1849 .
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:
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Vorderösterreich
The county of Hohenberg (Niederhohenberg landscape) included the town of Horb, the villages of Altheim, Grünmettstetten, Ihlingen and Salzstetten, as well as Bildechingen, Eutingen, Rohrdorf and Weitingen, which were subordinate to the municipal court. Lower nobility holdings under Austrian sovereignty were Nordstetten with Isenburg (Freiherr Keller von Schleitheim) and Lützenhardt (Freiherr Rassler von Gamerschwang). - Duchy of Württemberg
Hochdorf was part of the old Württemberg office of Nagold. -
Order of St. John
Coming Rexingen. -
Imperial Knighthood
In the knightly canton Neckar-Black Forest the Swabian knighthood were enrolled:- Weitenburg with Bieringen, Börstingen and Sulzau, as well as Bittelbronn (Freiherr Rassler von Gamerschwang),
- Ahldorf, Bierlingen, Felldorf, Wachendorf (Freiherr von Ow),
- Mills with Egelstal, Mühringen with Wiesenstetten and Dommelsberg (Freiherr von Münch),
- Baisingen, Eutingertal ( Freiherr Schenk von Stauffenberg ),
- Göttelfingen, Vollmaringen ( Baron von Hornstein ),
- Gündringen (Freiherr zu Eck and Hungersbach).
Communities
Population figures 1863
The following 29 municipalities were subordinate to the Horb Office in 1865:
No. | former parish | Population 1863 |
today's parish |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Horb | 1584 | Horb am Neckar |
2 | Ahldorf | 753 | Horb am Neckar |
3 | Altheim | 912 | Horb am Neckar |
4th | Baisingen | 747 | Rottenburg am Neckar |
5 | Bieringen | 536 | Rottenburg am Neckar |
6th | Bierlingen | 732 | Starzach |
7th | Bildechingen | 637 | Horb am Neckar |
8th | Bittelbronn | 319 | Horb am Neckar |
9 | Börstingen | 432 | Starzach |
10 | Eutingen | 1026 | Eutingen in the Gäu |
11 | Felldorf | 490 | Starzach |
12 | Goettelfingen | 351 | Eutingen in the Gäu |
13 | Grünmettstetten | 712 | Horb am Neckar |
14th | Gündringen | 513 | Nagold |
15th | Hochdorf | 789 | Nagold |
16 | Ihlingen | 128 | Horb am Neckar |
17th | Isenburg | 244 | Horb am Neckar |
18th | Lützenhardt | 525 | Waldachtal |
19th | Mills | 568 | Horb am Neckar |
20th | Mühringen | 902 | Horb am Neckar |
21st | Nordstetten | 1192 | Horb am Neckar |
22nd | Rexingen | 1000 | Horb am Neckar |
23 | Rohrdorf | 358 | Eutingen in the Gäu |
24 | Salzstetten | 871 | Waldachtal |
25th | Sulzau | 252 | Starzach |
26th | Vollmaringen | 564 | Nagold |
27 | Guard Village | 583 | Starzach |
28 | Weitingen | 1005 | Eutingen in the Gäu |
29 | Wiesenstetten | 519 | Received |
total | 19441 |
Changes in the community since 1813
In 1834 those parts of the former manor Eutingertal, which around 1810 had been assigned to the communities of Bildechingen and Mühlen, were moved to Eutingen.
Head of office
The Oberamtmen of the Oberamt Horb 1807–1938:
- 1807–1833: Joseph Bollinger
- 1833–1835: Bernhard Ovelog
- 1835–1840: Gustav Adolf Dillenius
- 1841–1845: Friedrich Wilhelm Wiebkekink
- 1845–1870: Christian Heinrich Lindenmayer
- 1870–1873: Karl Bellino
- 1874–1877: Heinrich Stahl
- 1877–1899: Hermann Wendelstein
- 1899–1902: Hugo Stiefenhofer
- 1902–1924: Hermann Rieger
- 1924–1938: Paul Bushart
literature
- Paulus (Ed.): Description of the Oberamt Horb . New edition. Unchangeable photomechan. Reprint [d. Ed.] Verlag H. Lindemann, Stuttgart 1865. Reprint Magstadt (near Stuttgart): Horst Bissinger KG Verlag und Druckerei, 1964. (The Württemberg Oberamtsbeschreibung, Vol. 47). ISBN 3-7644-0046-3
- The Freudenstadt district . Theiss, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-8062-0171-6
- 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
- Holdings Wü 65/13 of the Sigmaringen State Archives (files from the Horb Office)