Oberamt Welzheim

Map of the Württemberg upper offices, as of 1926

Seal of the Oberamt Welzheim

The Oberamt Welzheim (from 1810 to 1819 Oberamt Lorch ) was an administrative district in Württemberg (on attached map # 61) , which was renamed District Welzheim in 1934 and dissolved in 1938, with its municipalities in the districts of Waiblingen (legal successors), Gmünd , Backnang and Göppingen were distributed. For general comments on the Württemberg upper offices, see Oberamt (Württemberg) .

history

Oberamt Lorch, territorial status 1813, with the earlier rule and office boundaries
legend

The Welzheimer Wald and the adjacent section of the Remstal to the south belonged for the most part to Württemberg before 1800, but were spread over several offices and interspersed with areas of other rulers. In the course of the reorganization initiated by Napoleon, the Oberamt Welzheim was formed in 1807 from the former Chamber of Commerce Welzheim and the main part of the Monastery Office Lorch and expanded to include additional locations by 1810. In 1810 the administrative headquarters were moved to Lorch, and in 1819 back to Welzheim. The district, which was assigned to the Jagstkreis from 1818 to 1924, bordered the regional offices of Backnang , Gaildorf , Gmünd , Göppingen , Schorndorf and Waiblingen .

Former gentlemen

In 1813, after the completion of the regional reform in the Kingdom of Württemberg , the district was composed of parts that had belonged to the following rulers in 1800:

The list only gives full details of the larger towns; an exhaustive list of the numerous individual farms is dispensed with.

• Duchy of Württemberg
  • Chamber scribbling Office Welzheim: Welzheim, Höldis;
  • Oberamt Schorndorf: Plüderhausen with Waldhausen, Oberkirneck , Strauben and Mannholz , Rudersberg with Ebni, Oberndorf, Mittel- and Oberschlechtbach, Unterschlechtbach (partially);
  • Oberamt Göppingen: Beutenhof , shares in Burgholz and Radelstetten ;
  • Oberamt Backnang: Eckartsweiler, Gausmannsweiler , Seiboldsweiler ;
  • Lorch monastery office : Lorch, Brech , Brend (partially), Bruck, Pfahlbronn , Rienharz , Aichstrut , Cronhütte, Eberhardsweiler , Enderbach, Groß-, Klein- and Hangendeinbach, Wustenriet, Lenglingen ;
  • Adelberg Monastery Office : Kaisersbach with Ebersberg, Gmeinweiler and Mönchhof, Kirchenkirnberg with Oberneustetten and Gärtnershof, Buchengehren, Mittelweiler, Voggenberg;
  • Murrhardt monastery office : Untereustetten, Bruch, Mettelbach, Weidenhof.
• County Limpurg
  to part of the country Limpurg-Sontheim-Gaildorf among the count Pueckler sub Schlechtbach (partial), Lindental, Breitenfürst , Type Weiler , Metzelhof.
• Imperial city of Gmünd : Wetzgau, Pfersbach , Sachsenhof, Waldau.
• Reichsritterschaft
  When Ritter Canton stove Swabian knights were enrolled:
  • Alfdorf ( Freiherr vom Holtz ),
  • Wäschenbeuren (shared between Freiherr von Freyberg and Graf von Thurn, Valsassina and Taxis ).
  • The Hetzenhof belonged to the Eybach manor of the Count of Degenfeld-Schonburg .

Communities

Population figures 1845

The following communities were subordinate to the Oberamt in 1845:

No.	former parish	Population 1845		today's parish
		evangel.	catholic
1	Welzheim	2725	5	Welzheim
2	Alfdorf	1865	87	Alfdorf
3	Groß-Deinbach	727	420	Schwäbisch Gmünd
4th	Kaisersbach	2285	3	Kaisersbach
5	Kirchenkirnberg	1142	3	Murrhardt
6th	Lorch	2442	1	Lorch
7th	Pfahlbronn	1649	69	Alfdorf
8th	Plüderhausen	2154	2	Plüderhausen
9	Rudersberg	3183	8th	Rudersberg
10	Unter-Schlechtbach	1310	-	Rudersberg
11	Wäschenbeuren	43	1397	Wäschenbeuren
12	Waldhausen	1470	4th	Lorch
	total	20996	1999

Changes in the community since 1813

Parishes and marks around 1860

The state manual of 1815 lists the ten administrative units of Lorch, Alfdorf, Kaisersbach, Lenglingen, Plüderhausen, Rienharz, Rudersberg, Untersteustetten, Wäschenbeuren and Welzheim as local administrative units . After the constitution of 1819 had prepared the basis for local self-government , the municipalities were constituted in the modern sense. Waldhausen broke away from Plüderhausen. The communities Rudersberg, Oberndorf, Mittelschlechtbach and Unterschlechtbach emerged from the Rudersberger Stab. Some municipalities moved their administrative headquarters and changed the name accordingly: Lenglingen became Großdeinbach, Untereustetten became Kirchenkirnberg , Rienharz became Pfahlbronn .

In 1834 Oberndorf was incorporated into Rudersberg, Mittelschlechtbach after Unterschlechtbach.

In 1840 Welzheim received city rights.

In 1865 Lorch received city rights.

In 1933 the Ziegerhof was changed from Wäschenbeuren to Maitis (Oberamt Göppingen).

In 1938 Wetzgau was reassigned from Großdeinbach to Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Head of office

• 1807–1810: Christian Friedrich Bolley (1763–1824)
• 1810–1817: Johann Carl Seubert (1760–1845)
• 1817–1820: Franz von Knapp (1791–1855)
• 1820–1821: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Stockmayer (1766–1821)
• 1822–1830: Friedrich Günzler (1789–1874)
• 1830–1831: Wilhelm Gottlob Heinrich Oesterlen (1787–1831)
• 1831–1837: Gustav Christian Friedrich Scholl (1798–1837)
• 1837–1842: Carl von Kirn (1805–?)
• 1842–1847: Carl Friedrich Leemann (1805–?)
• 1847–1856: Carl Wilhelm von Heinz (1816–1887)
• 1856–1861: Gottlob Friedrich Bernhard von Schippert (1820–1893)
• 1861–1866: Karl von Luz (1824–1899)
• 1866–1872: Wilhelm Gottlob Eisenbach (1823–1885)
• 1872–1877: Wolfgang Christian Weidner (1825–?)
• 1877–1882: Heinrich Stahl (1837–1906)
• 1882–1887: Johann Adam Kirchgraber (1829–?)
• 1887–1893: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Vellnagel (1848–1893)
• 1893–1902: Wilhelm Waiblinger (1857–?)
• 1902–1909: Reinhold Gärtner (Oberamtmann) (1864–?)
• 1909–1918: Hermann Grimm (1866–1960)
• 1919–1924: Franz Bertsch (1868–1951)
• 1924–1931: Walter Clausnitzer (1883–1934) no longer according to plan due to planned liquidation
• 1932–1933: Walter Bertsch (1900–1952)
• 1933–1938: Willy Ritter (1899–?)

literature

• Moser: Description of the Oberamt Welzheim . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1845. Reprint Bissinger, Magstadt, ISBN 3-7644-0021-8 .
• 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

Wikisource: Description of the Oberamt Welzheim from 1845  - sources and full texts

• Holdings F 214 I and II of the State Archives Ludwigsburg (files of the Oberamt Welzheim)