Oberamt Ravensburg

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Map of the Württemberg upper offices, as of 1926

The Ravensburg Oberamt was an administrative district in Württemberg (on attached map # 42) , which was renamed the Ravensburg district in 1934 and expanded to include the majority of the former Waldsee district in 1938 . For general comments on the Württemberg upper offices, see Oberamt (Württemberg) .

history

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

At the end of the 18th century, the area of ​​this upper office was divided among many lords and looked like a patchwork quilt. Ravensburg lost its position as an imperial city in 1802 and fell to Bavaria. The Upper Swabian imperial monasteries were also part of the distribution mass of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss : The Weingarten monastery with its large estates was secularized and awarded to the Prince of Nassau-Orange as compensation for areas on the left bank of the Rhine that fell to France. The equally large possessions of the Weißenau monastery came to the Count of Sternberg-Manderscheid in the same way . In the Pressburg Peace Treaty of 1805, Württemberg received the bulk of the Austrian bailiwick of Swabia . In 1806, the Altdorf Oberamt, which was formed from this, was assigned further areas - which had become part of Württemberg as a result of the Rhine Confederation Act : the formerly monastic possessions and part of the mediatized dominions of the Princes of Waldburg . In the Paris Border Treaty of 1810, the kingdoms of Bavaria and Württemberg set the final borders. Ravensburg became part of Württemberg, and the Oberamt Altdorf became the Oberamt Ravensburg. The district, which was assigned to the Danube District from 1818 to 1924, bordered the Württemberg regional offices of Tettnang , Waldsee , Wangen and Saulgau and the Grand Duchy of Baden .

Former gentlemen

Front Austria around 1780

In 1813, after the regional reform was completed, the district was made up of parts that had belonged to the following rulers in 1800:

  • Imperial city of Ravensburg : in addition to the city itself, a total of 109 villages, hamlets and farms in the offices of Hinzistobel, Schmalegg, Winterbach, Mochenwangen and Wolpertswende. (The offices of Bavendorf and Bitzenhofen came to the Oberamt Tettnang in 1810.)
  • Upper Austria , Landvogtei Swabia : The offices of Altdorf, Berg, Bodnegg, Boschen, Eschach, Grünkraut, Wolketsweiler and Zogenweiler are made up of around 350 locations that were scattered over almost all of the later communities in the district.
  • Reichsabtei Weingarten : 114 places, with a focus on the later communities Altdorf, Berg, Blitzenreute, Esenhausen, Fronhofen, Hasenweiler and Schlier, plus extensive real estate under Austrian sovereignty.
  • Weissenau Imperial Abbey : Weissenau, Oberhofen, plus extensive property under Austrian sovereignty.
  • Prince of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee : Lordship of Waldburg, with 50 places in the later communities of Bodnegg, Grünkraut, Schlier, Vogt and Waldburg.
  • Baron von Rehling: Herrschaft Bettenreute, Danketsweiler, Zußdorf.

As the owner of the county of Heiligenberg , the Prince of Fürstenberg was entitled to blood jurisdiction and forest sovereignty on the right of the Rotach . Landlords without sovereign rights were, in addition to the aforementioned monasteries, also the Reichsabtei Baindt , the Baron von Greut zu Mosisgreut and the Count of Beroldingen-Ratzenried.

Communities

Population figures 1836

The following communities were subordinate to the Oberamt in 1836:

No. former parish Population 1836 today's parish
    evangel. catholic  
1 Ravensburg 1,688 3,065 Ravensburg
2 Altdorf 73 2,289 Vineyard
3 Baindt - 1,435 Baindt
4th mountain - 927 mountain
5 Blitzenreute - 585 Fronreute
6th Bodneck 1 - 1,408 Bodnegg
7th Eschach - 1,097 Ravensburg
8th Essenhausen 2 - 296 Wilhelmsdorf
9 Fronhofen - 601 Fronreute
10 Green cabbage - 923 Green cabbage
11 Hassenweiler 3 - 543 Horgenzell
12 Chapel - 881 Horgenzell
13 Schlier - 1,064 Schlier
14th Schmaleck 4 - 734 Ravensburg
15th Vogt - 1,545 Vogt
16 Forest castle - 1,163 Forest castle
17th Wilhelmsdorf 261 - Wilhelmsdorf
18th Wolpertsschwende 5 - 964 Wolpertswende
19th Zogenweiler - 575 Horgenzell
20th Zussdorf - 233 Wilhelmsdorf
  total 1,992 20,328  

today's notation:

1 Bodnegg
2 Esenhausen
3 Hasenweiler
4th Schmalegg
5 Wolpertswende

Changes in the community since 1813

Parishes and marks around 1860

The local administrative structure was initially based on the former rule limits. In 1823 there were 23 other parishes in addition to the administrative city of Ravensburg and the market town of Altdorf. Schmalegg and Wolpertswende consisted exclusively of places that were formerly Ravensburg, Baienfurt, Bodnegg, Boschen, Eschach, Grünkraut, Schussen, Um-Altdorf, Wolketsweiler and Zogenweiler from former Austrian territory. The communities of Aichach, Blitzenreute, Esenhausen, Ettishofen, Fronhofen, Hasenweiler and Schlier emerged from the territory of the Weingarten Monastery, and Weingarten itself merged with Altdorf. The community of Waldburg coincided with the former rule of the same name, Danketsweiler and Zußdorf with the Rehlingschen goods, Oberhofen with the Weißenau monastery area. Only the community of Hinzistobel was a mixture of imperial urban and winegrowing places. In line with the earlier fragmentation, there were a number of exclaves. Some places, for example Wetzisreute, were spread over several communities.

After the constitution of 1819 and the administrative edict of 1822 had prepared the basis for local self-government , the communities were constituted in the modern sense. In the Oberamt Ravensburg this process was completed in 1826, which eliminated most of the exclaves and reduced the number of communities from 25 to 18: Ravensburg, Altdorf, Baindt, Berg, Blitzenreute, Bodnegg, Eschach, Esenhausen, Fronhofen, Grünkraut, Hasenweiler, Kappel, Schlier , Schmalegg, Vogt, Waldburg, Wolpertswende, Zogenweiler. Added to this was the the daughter congregation of 1,824 Evangelical Brethren Korntal founded colony Wilhelmsdorf .

In 1829 Zußdorf was separated from Esenhausen and raised again to an independent municipality.

In 1842 Butzers, Goldegger and Tannberg were reassigned from Bodnegg to Pfärrich (Oberamt Wangen). At the same time, the community of Taldorf (with Erbenweiler, which previously belonged to Oberteuringen) came from the Tettnang Oberamt to the Ravensburg Oberamt. The living space - de facto just a single house - Geiselmacher, previously an exclave of the Saulgau district enclosed by the Ravensburg District Office, was assigned to the Wolpertswende community.

In 1846 a state treaty concluded between Baden and Württemberg in 1843 came into force. The Auhof (to the community of Zußdorf) and the previously Baden part of Sießen (to the community of Hasenweiler) came to Württemberg.

In 1848 Baienfurt was separated from Baindt and made an independent municipality.

In 1849 Wolketsweiler was separated from Kappel and raised to the status of an independent municipality.

In 1850 Wilhelmsdorf, previously assigned to the community of Esenhausen in judicial terms, was raised to the status of an independent community.

In 1865 Altdorf was renamed Weingarten and at the same time elevated to town.

Head of office

literature

  • Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger : Description of the Oberamt Ravensburg . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1836. Reprint Bissinger, Magstadt 1982, ISBN 3-7644-0012-9 .
  • 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 Ravensburg  - sources and full texts