Landvogtei Swabia

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  • Oberamt Altdorf

    • The Landvogtei Schwaben , from 1750 Oberamt Altdorf , belonged to Upper Austria and was thus part of the Habsburg Empire . After the end of the Duchy of Swabia, it came to Austria as the Reichslandvogtei in Upper and Lower Swabia in 1541 and remained there until 1805.

    The Landvogtei comprised areas from the eastern north shore of Lake Constance via the Schussental ( Waldsee ) to the Ostalb ( Schelklingen , the city of Riedlingen ), and also in the Western Allgäu the area around the imperial city of Leutkirch im Allgäu (Gebrazhofen). The Landvogtei was divided into an Upper Landvogtei and a Lower Landvogtei . The seat of the Upper Landvogtei was Altdorf (today Weingarten).

    After the Peace of Bratislava on December 26, 1805, the Altdorf Upper Office fell to the Kingdom of Württemberg . The Gebrazhofen office initially to the Kingdom of Bavaria , but then also to Württemberg in 1810. Due to the Paris border treaty between Bavaria and Württemberg of 1810, the city of Ravensburg also became part of Württemberg, and the Oberamt Ravensburg emerged from the Oberamt Altdorf .

    literature

    • Karl S. Bader: The German Southwest in its Territorial State Development , Stuttgart 1950.
    • Eberhard Gönner , Max Miller : Die Landvogtei Schwaben , in: Friedrich Metz (Hrsg.): Vorderösterreich. A historical geography , 2., exp. u. improve Aufl. Freiburg 1967, pp. 683-704.
    • Hans-Georg Hofacker: The Swabian Reichslandvogtei in the late Middle Ages , Stuttgart 1980.
    • Hermann Freiherr von Reitzenstein: The Reichs-Landvogteien at the end of the thirteenth century with special consideration for Swabia , in: Journal of the historical association for Swabia and Neuburg 12th year, 1885, pp. 54–95.
    • Theodor Schön: The bailiffs of the empire in Upper and Lower Swabia until 1486 , in: Communications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, Supplementary Volume 6, 1901, pp. 280-292.
    • Peter Steuer: The Altdorf District Office: Territorial and Administrative History , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 114th year 1996, pp. 17-48 ( digital copy )
    • JW Wegelin: Thorough-historical report of the imperial and imperial state vogtey in Swabia as well as the Frey imperial district court on Leutkircher Haid and in the Pirß , 1755 (without location).

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