Oberamt Oppenheim

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The Oberamt Oppenheim was an administrative and judicial district of the Electoral Palatinate in what is now Rheinhessen . It existed until the end of the 18th century.

geography

The Oberamt Oppenheim was a two-part territory. It consisted of the Ingelheimer Grund , the area around the formerly free imperial city of Oppenheim with the towns of Oppenheim, Nierstein , Schwabsburg and Dexheim , and from 1733 the Stadecken winery with the towns of Essenheim and Stadecken .

history

In 1375 the formerly free imperial city of Oppenheim and Ingelheimer Grund, which had previously been pledged several times, came to the Electoral Palatinate through a pledge of Emperor Charles IV to Elector Ruprecht von der Pfalz . Ruprecht put this new territory together in a separate Oberamt .

The pledge was never released again and after the end of the Thirty Years' War in the Peace of Westphalia was declared irrevocable.

In 1733 the territory of the Stadecken winery, which had formerly belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken, was transferred to the Oberamt Oppenheim through a territorial exchange .

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