Oberamt Urach

Map of the Württemberg upper offices, as of 1926

Former head office building in Bad Urach

The Oberamt Urach was a Württemberg administrative district (on attached map # 56) , which was renamed the Urach district in 1934 and dissolved in 1938, with its communities falling to the Reutlingen and Münsingen districts . For general remarks on the Württemberg upper offices, see Oberamt (Württemberg) .

history

Oberamt Urach, territorial status 1813, with the earlier office boundaries

The city of Urach had been the capital of a Württemberg bailiwick since the end of the 13th century . The resulting old Württemberg office, since 1758 Oberamt, comprised around 70 places in the 16th century and remained the largest administrative unit in the duchy even after the Münsingen office had been separated in 1654 and the Pfullingen office in 1699. In 1808, in the course of the reorganization of the higher offices, the district had to cede further places: the sub office Willmandingen to the upper office Reutlingen and the sub offices Laichingen and Steingebronn to the upper office Münsingen. This contrasted with only a small increase in the area in the form of Aglishardt, which, as a former grangie of the Bebenhausen monastery, remained with the monastery office there after the Reformation. After the reorganization, the neighbors were the Württemberg regional offices of Nürtingen , Kirchheim , Geislingen , Münsingen , Reutlingen and Tübingen .

Communities

Population figures 1831

The following communities were assigned to the Urach Oberamt, which was part of the Black Forest District , in 1831 :

No.	former parish	Population 1831		today's parish
		evangel.	catholic
1	Urach	3001	11	Bad Urach
2	Bempflingen	604	-	Bempflingen
3	Bleichstetten	191	-	St. Johann
4th	Böhringen with Strohweiler	904	-	Roman stone
5	Dettingen	2700	4th	Dettingen on the Erms
6th	Donnstetten	668	1	Roman stone
7th	Ehningen ¹	4908	-	Eningen under Achalm
8th	Gächingen	587	-	St. Johann
9	Glems	563	-	Metzingen
10	Gruorn	469	-	Münsingen manor district
11	Hengen	328	6th	Bad Urach
12	Pods	523	-	Pods
13	Lonsingen	302	-	St. Johann
14th	Metzingen	4039	-	Metzingen
15th	Middle instead of ²	976	-	Reutlingen
16	Neuhausen	1134	-	Metzingen
17th	Ohnastetten	164	-	St. Johann
18th	Pliezhausen	1644	-	Pliezhausen
19th	Reicheneck	136	-	Reutlingen
20th	Riederich	610	-	Riederich
21st	Rietheim	287	-	Münsingen
22nd	Seeburg	306	-	Bad Urach
23	Sirchingen	151	-	Bad Urach
24	Sondelfingen	808	-	Reutlingen
25th	Trail catching	463	-	Münsingen
26th	Upfingen	384	-	St. Johann
27	Whiting	515	-	Bad Urach
28	Würtingen	763	-	St. Johann
29	Zainingen	866	-	Roman stone
	total	28518	22nd

¹

today's spelling Eningen ,

²

today's spelling Mittelstadt

Changes in the community since 1813

Parishes and marks around 1860

Around 1825 Strohweiler was incorporated into Böhringen.

In 1826 the Achalm was umgemeindet from Eningen to Reutlingen ( Oberamt Reutlingen ).

In 1829 Reicheneck was separated from Mittelstadt and raised to the status of an independent municipality.

In 1831 Metzingen received city rights.

In 1842 the community of Grabenstetten came from the Nürtingen Upper Office to the Urach Upper Office. At the same time, Pliezhausen (to the Oberamt Tübingen ) and Eningen (to the Oberamt Reutlingen) left the district.

In 1937 the decision was made to include the entire Gruorn area in the Münsingen military training area. The residents were resettled by 1939.

Head of office

1795–1810: Karl Ludwig Röslin (1749–?)
1810–1814: Christoph Maximilian von Griesinger (1763–1831)
1814–1818: Christoph Friedrich von Schmidlin (1780–1830)
1819–1831: Friedrich Ludwig von Kauffmann (1765–1843)
1831–1844: Carl Christian Friedrich Weckherlin (1790–1853)
1844–1856: Immanuel Gottlob Kober (1801–1870)
1856–1871: Philipp Gottlieb Osiander (1803–1876)
1872–1882: Gustav Adolph Bockshammer (1824–1882)
1882–1887: Theodor Pichler (1835–1887)
1887–1890: Hartmund Güntner (1827–1897)
1890–1894: Eugen Hilbert (1854–1939)
1894–1902: Franz Ruisinger (1839–?)
1902–1912: Gustav Adolf Wessinger (1861–1920)
1912–1920: Wilhelm Etzel (1871–1922)
1920–1923: Fritz Adae (1875–1967)
1923–1937: Theodor Kreeb (1882–1954)
1937–1938: Helmut Weihenmaier (1905–1995) (as official administrator )

literature

Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger (Hrsg.): Description of the Oberamt Urach . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1831. Reprint Bissinger, Magstadt, ISBN 3-7644-0008-0 .
K. Stat. Landesamt (Ed.): Description of the Oberamt Urach . Revision. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1909.
The district of Reutlingen . Official district description, volume 1. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1997, ISBN 3-7995-1357-4
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

Holdings Wü 65/40 of the Sigmaringen State Archives (files of the Urach Oberamt)

Wikisource: Description of the Oberamt Urach from 1831 - sources and full texts