Oberamt Wassertrüdingen
The Upper Office Wassertrüdingen was one of the 15 administrative areas of the Principality of Ansbach .
location
The Oberamt Wassertrüdingen bordered the Oberamt Gunzenhausen to the east, the Oberamt Feuchtwangen to the west and north , the County of Oettingen to the east and south and the imperial city of Dinkelsbühl to the west .
structure
The Oberamt Wassertrüdingen is made up of the caste and city bailiff's office Wassertrüdingen , the monastery administrator's office in Auhausen , the administrative office in Röckingen , the administrator's office in Schwaningen and the bailiff's office in Wittelshofen.
In the Fraisch district there were 119 places, including 1 town , 2 market towns, 27 parish villages , 5 church villages , 1 castle, 43 hamlets and 40 individual farms or mills . There were a total of 2400 subject families, 1320 were Ansbach and 1080 were foreigners.
In detail, these are (in brackets the number of properties over which the Wassertrüdingen office had manorial claims, then the total number of properties):
Ammelbruch (24/45), Aufkirchen (0/84), Auhausen (86/86), Baudenhart (1/1), Baum- or Siebhof (0/1), Bernhardswend (4/13), Beyerberg (37/59 ), Birkach (0/12), Bosacker (0/6), Botzenweiler (0/4), Brennhof (0/1), Brunn (2/2), Burk (43/59), Burgstallmühle (1/1) , Dambach (22/31), Dattelhof (0/1), Dennenlohe (0/17), Dorfkemmathen (22/58) * , Dühren (4/7), Ehingen (94/129), EhrenschIAN (3/4) , Eybburg (0/2), Flinsmühle (1/1), Frankenhofen (9/53), Friedrichsthal (9/10), Fürnheim (15/27), Gelshofen (5/8), Gelsmühle (0/1), Gerolfingen (41/85), Greiselbach (0/14), Großlellenfeld (13/53), Grüb (0/7), Gugelmühle (1/1), Halsbach (0/23), Hammermühle (0/1), Hahnenberg (0/2), Hardhof (1/1), Haslach (4/17), Heinersdorf (18/18), Himmerstall (1/6), Hüttlingen (0/3), Illenschwang (12/26), Irsingen ( 6/22), Kaltenkreuth (3/3), Karlsholz (0/3), Klarhof (1/1), Klarmühle (1/1), Kleinlellenfeld (10/21), Klingen (0/3), Klingenhof (0 / 1), Knittelsbach (1/7), Königshofen (30/51), Kreuthof (1/1), Kreuthmühle (1/1), Kröttenbach (10/17), Kussenhof (2/2), Langfurth (0/12), Laufenbürg (0/1), Lehmingen (41/45), Lentersheim (63/64), Limburg (0/5), Lochenbach (18/18), Lohmühle near Dinkelsbühl (0/1), Lohmühle near Halsbach (0/1), Lohmühle near Knittelsbach (0/1), Lohmühle near Sinbronn (0/1), Matzmannsdorf (13/13), Mögersheim (42/93), Miegendorf (12/12), Neustädtlein (0/6), Neumühle (0/1), Nordstetten (19/29), Oberaumühle (1/1), Oberkemmathen (8/17), Oberkönigshofen ( 4/4), Obermichelbach (4/26), Oberschwaningen (10/25), Opfenried (15/20), oil mill near Dinkelsbühl (0/1), Pfeifhof (1/1), powder mill near Dinkelsbühl (0/1) , Reichenbach (14/14), Röckingen (94/102), Rohrbach (6/6), Röttenbach (0/5), Rottnersdorf (1/1), Ruffenhofen (3/17), Schadisches Herrnhaus (0/1) , Schlierberg (6/10), Schmalzmühle (0/1), Schobdach (23/30), Schwandmühle (1/1), Sinbronn (1/28), Stahlhöfe (0/4), Stöckau (4/4), Stockaumühle (1/1), Tiefweg (0/3), Ungerhof (0/1), Unteraumühle (0/1), Unterkemmathen (19/53) * , Untermichelbach (19/50), Unterschwaningen (67/67), Veitsweiler (0/20), Villersbronn (0/10), Fulling Mill near Dinkelsbühl , Wassertrüdingen (195/195), Weißhaus near Dinkelsbühl (0/1), Weihermühle (1/1), Weiltingen ( 0/120), Welchenholz (0/11), Wörnitzhofen (2/16), Wilburgstetten (0/44), Wittelshofen (72/75), Witzmannsmühle (0/1), Wolfershof (1/1), Wolfsbühl (0 / 7), Ziegelhütte near Dinkelsbühl (0/1).
literature
- Johann Bernhard Fischer : Oberamt Wassertrüdingen . In: Statistical and topographical description of the Burggraftum Nürnberg, below the mountain, or the Principality of Brandenburg-Anspach. Second part. Containing the economic, statistical and moral condition of these countries according to the fifteen upper offices . Benedict Friedrich Haueisen, Ansbach 1790, p. 371-394 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Oberamt Wassertrüdingen . In: Earth description of the Franconian principalities of Bayreuth and Anspach . Hemmerde and Schwetschke, Halle 1797, p. 417-423 ( digitized version ).
- Gottfried Stieber: Head Office Wassertrüdingen . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 15 ( digitized version ).