Mergentheim District Office

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Map of the Württemberg upper offices, status 1835, Mergentheim upper office highlighted
Letter seal of the Mergentheim Oberamt

The Oberamt Mergentheim was the northernmost Württemberg County, the 1934 county Mergentheim , in 1938 the district Mergentheim renamed while a few communities of the dissolved circle Gerabronn extended was. For general remarks on the Württemberg upper offices, see Oberamt (Württemberg) .

history

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

The Oberamt Mergentheim was formed in 1809 exclusively from New Württemberg areas, which had largely fallen to the kingdom due to the Rhine Confederation Act and with the abolition of the Teutonic Order . In the following year, more places were added when the state border was finally determined in the border treaty between Bavaria and Württemberg . Neighbors of the district, which was assigned to the Jagstkreis from 1818 to 1924, were the Württemberg regional offices of Gerabronn and Künzelsau , the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Bavaria . The community of Deubach with Hof Sailtheim and the hamlet of Bowiesen formed exclaves . Edelfingen was a Baden-Württemberg condominium until 1846 .

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:

  • German Order , Tauberoberamt
    • City of Mergentheim, residence of the high and German masters ;
    • Neuhaus office: Althausen, Apfelbach, Bernsfelden, Hagenhof, Harthausen, Igersheim, Markelsheim, Neuhaus, Neuses, Üttingshof;
    • Amt Wachbach: Dörtel, Hachtel, Igelstrut, Wachbach (together with the Lords of Adelsheim), Honsbronn (partially), Lillstadt, Lustbronn, Rengershausen, Rot, Schönbühl, Stuppach;
    • Office Balbach: Bowiesen, Deubach, Edelfingen (together with Hatzfeld and Adelsheim), Holzbronn, Löffelstelzen, Neubronn, Reckerstal, Reisfeld, Sailtheim.
  • Hochstift Würzburg
    Dunzendorf, Haagen, Laudenbach, Münster (partly), Neubronn, Oberndorf, Rinderfeld, Streichental, Vorbachzimmer (partly), Wermutshausen belonged to the Amt of Haltebergstetten, which was made up of the lords of Holdbergstetten and Laudenbach, which were awarded to the Prince of Hatzfeld until 1794 . Neunkirchen (partially) belonged to the Bütthard office.
  • Prince Hohenlohe
    • Hohenlohe-Öhringen: Weikersheim, Adolzhausen, Ebertsbronn (partially), Elpersheim, Herbsthausen, Honsbronn (partially), Münster (partially), Lochgarten, Nassau, Neunkirchen (partially), Niederhausen, Queckbronn, Schäftersheim, Vorbachzimmer (partially);
    • Hohenlohe-Bartenstein: Pfitzingen, Herrenzimmern and Rüsselhausen, Vorbachzimmer (partially).
  • Prussia , Principality of Ansbach
    • Oberamt Creglingen: Creglingen, Archshofen (together with Mr. von Oetinger), Brauneck, Burgstall, Craintal, Ebertsbronn (partially), Erdbach, Frauenthal, Freudenbach, Fuchshof, Holdermühle, Lohnhof, Niederrimbach, Niedersteinach, Reinsbronn, Schirmbach, Schön, Standorf, Weidenhof.
  • Imperial city of Rothenburg : Blumweiler, Finsterlohr, Lichtel, Oberrimbach, Reutsachsen, Schmerbach, Schonach, Schwarzenbronn, Seldeneck, Weiler, Wolfsbuch.
  • Schöntal Monastery : Simmringen.
  • Imperial Knighthood
    In the canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knighthood, in addition to the shares already mentioned, the rule of Waldmannshofen of Prince von Hatzfeld was matriculated.

Communities

Population figures 1875

The following municipalities were subordinate to the Mergentheim District Office in 1879:

No. former parish
Population 1875
 today's parish
evangelical Catholic Israel.
1 Mergentheim 1347
otherwise. 2		 2465 207 Bad Mergentheim
2 Adolzhausen 322 8th Niederstetten
3 Althausen 454 78 Bad Mergentheim
4th Apfelbach 16 448 Bad Mergentheim
5 Archshofen 499 1 117 Creglingen
6th Bernsfelden 4th 352 Igersheim
7th Blumweiler 552 3 Creglingen
8th Crainthal 160 1 Creglingen
9 Creglingen 1151
otherwise. 2		 36 118 Creglingen
10 Deubach 9 187 Lauda-Koenigshofen
11 Edelfingen 927 94 143 Bad Mergentheim
12 Elpersheim 825 Weikersheim
13 Dark ear 443 1 Creglingen
14th Frauenthal 301 4th Creglingen
15th Freudenbach 536 2 Creglingen
16 Haagen 8th 141 Weikersheim
17th Hachtel 127 240 Bad Mergentheim
18th Harthausen 439 Igersheim
19th Herbsthausen 225 28 Bad Mergentheim
20th Gentlemen's rooms 244 6th Niederstetten
21st Honsbronn 193 68 Weikersheim
22nd Igersheim 3 953 26th Igersheim
23 Laudenbach 42 841 114 Weikersheim
24 Spoon stilts 406 Bad Mergentheim
25th Markelsheim 11 1345 68 Bad Mergentheim
26th Muenster 510 Creglingen
27 Nassau 647 3 Weikersheim
28 Neubronn 382 16 Weikersheim
29 Neunkirchen 273 85 21st Bad Mergentheim
30th Neuseß 1 269 Igersheim
31 Nieder-Rimbach 386 2 Creglingen
32 Ober-Rimbach 346 2 Creglingen
33 Pfitzingen 282 2 Niederstetten
34 Queckbronn 199 Weikersheim
35 Reinsbronn 571 3 Creglingen
36 Rengershausen 13 497 Bad Mergentheim
37 Cattle field 498 1 Niederstetten
38 Roth 81 382 Bad Mergentheim
39 Rüsselhausen 222 1 Niederstetten
40 Schaefersheim 556 15th Weikersheim
41 Schmerbach 296 1 Creglingen
42 Simmringen 122 Igersheim
43 Stuppach 14th 660 Bad Mergentheim
44 Vorbachzimmer 687 7th Niederstetten
45 Wachbach 610 296 78 Bad Mergentheim
46 Waldmannshofen 450
otherwise. 14		 4th 6th Creglingen
47 Weikersheim 1609
otherwise. 1		 48 72 Weikersheim
48 Vermouths 424 3 Niederstetten
total 17455
otherwise. 19		 10565 971
1today's spelling Neuses

Changes in the community since 1813

Parishes and marks around 1860

After the constitution of 1819 had prepared the basis for communal self-government , the communes in the modern sense were constituted from the “mayor shops”. Haagen, Hachtel and Honsbronn gained independence by 1828, followed by Craintal, Herrenzimmern and Rüsselhausen in 1829–30.

In 1846 a state treaty concluded three years earlier between Baden and Württemberg came into force. Württemberg received the Baden share of dominion (1/8) in Edelfingen, as well as undivided sovereignty over the Rittershof mark (municipality of Harthausen).

In 1851 Schmerbach was separated from Oberrimbach and raised to the status of an independent municipality.

In 1864, Württemberg ceded an area along the Tauber to Bavaria by means of a state treaty. This affected the communities of Blumweiler and Finsterlohr.

Head of office

The Oberamtmen of the Oberamt Mergentheim from 1809 to 1938:

literature

  • Hartmann / Paulus (ed.): Description of the Mergentheim Oberamt . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1880. Reprint Bissinger, Magstadt 1968, ISBN 3-7644-0055-2 ( Descriptions of the Württemberg Oberamts, Volume 59).
  • 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

Commons : Oberamt Mergentheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Description of the Oberamt Mergentheim from 1880  - sources and full texts

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 9 ° 47'  E