Oberamt Meisenheim (Zweibrücken)

The Oberamt Meisenheim was one of eight Oberamts until 1801 and thus an administrative area of Pfalz-Zweibrücken with its seat in Meisenheim . The territory now belongs to Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

Meisenheim had already emerged as one of the administrative centers in the county of Veldenz and a (upper) office of Meisenheim was established. With the creation of Pfalz-Zweibrücken in 1453/59, the existing administrative structure was taken over. In 1796 the Oberamt Meisenheim was administratively assigned to the administrative district Kreuznach . At the end of the Old Kingdom there were eight upper offices in Pfalz-Zweibrücken, one of which was the upper office of Meisenheim. After the annexation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the Oberamt Meisenheim became part of the French Republic in 1798 . The region around Meisenheim belonged to 1814 as Canton Meisenheim to district Birkenfeld in the Saar Territory . The Hessen-Homburg Oberamt Meisenheim that was formed afterwards had a different layout.

area

The Meisenheim Oberamt comprised communities that were divided into four offices:

local community	Office	belonged to after 1814	today
Meisenheim	Meisenheim	Hessen-Homburg	VG Meisenheim
Medard	Meisenheim	Hessen-Homburg	VG Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Breitenheim	Meisenheim	Hessen-Homburg	VG Meisenheim
Jeckenbach	Meisenheim	Hessen-Homburg	VG Meisenheim
Hundsbach	Meisenheim	Hessen-Homburg	VG Meisenheim
Desloch	Meisenheim	Hessen-Homburg	VG Meisenheim
Unterraumbach	Meisenheim	Hessen-Homburg	VG Meisenheim
Oberraumbach	Meisenheim	Hessen-Homburg	VG Meisenheim
Rehborn	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Meisenheim
Lettweiler	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Meisenheim
Odernheim	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Bad Sobernheim
Duchrod-Oberhausen	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Rüdesheim
Oiling	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Holy Moschel	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Otterberg
Berzweiler	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Callbach	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Meisenheim
Reiffelbach	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Meisenheim
Gangloff	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Meisenheim
Rossbecherbach	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Meisenheim
Roth	Meisenheim	Bavaria	VG Meisenheim
Upper moschel	Landsberg Office	Hessen-Homburg	VG Alsenz-Obermoschel
Niedermoschel	Landsberg Office	Hessen-Homburg	VG Alsenz-Obermoschel
Sitters	Landsberg Office	Hessen-Homburg	VG Alsenz-Obermoschel
Ransweiler	Landsberg Office	Hessen-Homburg	VG Rockenhausen
Schiersfeld	Landsberg Office	Hessen-Homburg	VG Alsenz-Obermoschel
Bi-difference	Landsberg Office	Hessen-Homburg	VG Rockenhausen
Dielkirchen	Landsberg Office	Hessen-Homburg	VG Rockenhausen
All municipalities of the office	Office Waldgrehweiler	Hessen-Homburg	0
Odenbach	Office Odenbach	Hessen-Homburg	VG Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Adenbach	Office Odenbach	Hessen-Homburg	VG Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Ginsweiler	Office Odenbach	Hessen-Homburg	VG Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Cronenberg	Office Odenbach	Hessen-Homburg	VG Lauterecken-Wolfstein

literature

• Johann Georg Martin Reinhardt ; Otto Beck: Description of the Oberamt Meisenheim. Meisenheim 1868. Online
• Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution. 2001, ISBN 978-3-515-07878-8 , pp. 184f. On-line

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhardt and Beck: Description of the Oberamt Meisenheim, p. 7