Oberamt Burgthann

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The area of ​​the Oberamt Burgthann
Thann Castle, the official seat of the Oberamt

The Oberamt Burgthann was one of the fifteen senior offices with which the Principality of Ansbach had organized the administration of its territorial property. From 1791/92 the principality of Ansbach was administered by the Prussian state as Ansbach-Bayreuth . With that the Oberamt Burgthann became part of the Schwabach district .

location

Within the principality, the Upper Office Burgthann formed an exclave and was the upper office of this rule located furthest to the east. In the east, the nursing office in Nuremberg bordered Altdorf , in the west the Oberamt Schwabach ; to the south the former Wolfsteinische since 1740 Pfalz-neuburgische Office Pyrbaum , in the southeast of the the Teutonic Order under standing Postbauer and in the north the Nürnbergische Pflegamt run .

structure

The administrative seat of the Upper Office was Thann Castle above Burgthann . There were the Fraisch districts of Burgthann and Schönberg . However, the high jurisdiction was challenged in a large number of places by the imperial city of Nuremberg , and in some cases by the Oberamt Schwabach . The manorial claims were administered by the caste office Burgthann and the Vogtamt Burgthann.

At the end of the 18th century, the Oberamt Burgthann was subordinate to 56 places, including 1 market town, 8 parish villages , 2 church villages , 1 chapel, 55 hamlets and 39 individual farms or mills. There were a total of 1107 subject families, 280 were Ansbach, 827 were foreigners.

Burgthann Office

The following places belonged to Burgthann (in brackets the number of properties that were subject to tax at the Burgthann caste office, then the total number of properties): Altenthann (0/23), Altenfurt, Kapelle (0/0), Bachmühle (1/1), Birnthon ( 0/4), white lead (0/2), Brandmühle (0/1), Buch * (0/9), Burgthann (39/39), Dörlbach (0/6), Dutzendteich (0/4), Ezelsdorf ( 29/36), Feucht (0/66), Fischbach (0/24), Förresmühle (1/1), Forsthof (0/1), Fröschau (0/1), Gauchsmühle (0/1), Gibitzenhof (1 / 1), Gleißhammer (0/14), Großvoggenhof (1/6), Grub (18/20), Grünsberg (0/11), Gsteinach (0/1), Gspannberg * (0/6), Gugelhammer (0 / 1), Gugelhof (1/1), Hadermühle (0/1), Hahnhof with mill (0/2), Hallerschloß (0/1), Heinleinshof (3/3), Hohenbruck (0/9), Höfen ( 0/3), Kemnath * (2/26), Kleinvoggenhof (0/2), Kothmühle (0/1), Lochmannshof (0/1), Ludersheim and Auf der Au (0/11), Malersberg (0/2 ), Moosbach (0/9), Netzstall (0/2), Oberferrieden (21/21), Oberlindelburg (1/9), Obermimberg (3/3), Oberwellitzleithen (0/7), Pattenhofen (4/9 ), Penzenhofen (0/10), Pfeifferhütte (4/4), Peunting (0/3), Prackenfels (0/3), Prethalmühle (0/1), Rasch (0/31), Röthenbach near St. Wolfgang ( 0/20), Röthenbach near Altdorf (0/20), Rübleinshof (0/1), Rummelsberg (0/1), Schwarzenbach (3/26), Schwarzenbruck (0/15), Steinbach (4/7), Spital Altdorf, Unterferrieden (46/46), Unterlindelburg (2/3), Untermimberg (2/3), Weinhof (0/8), Winkelhaid (0/29), Westhaid (3/6), Weiherhaus (0/1) , Brickworks (0/1).

* 4 properties in Buch, 3 properties in Gspannberg and 21 properties in Kemnath are located in the Fraisch district of the Palatinate-Neuburgian office of Pyrbaum.

Office Schönberg

The following places belonged to Schönberg (in brackets the number of properties that were subject to tax in the Vogtamt Schönberg, then the total number of properties): Brunn (0/11), Diepersdorf (7/48), Dürrenhof (0/1), Ernhofen (0 / 5), Fuchsmühle (0/1), Gersdorf (0/17), Haimendorf (0/19), Hammer (0/5), Heiligenmühle (0/1), Himmelgarten (0/4), Laufamholz (3/37 ), Leinburg (3/65), Letten (0/4), Malmsbach (0/10), Meiersberg (0/3), Mittelbuch (1/1), Moritzberg (0/1), Mögeldorf (20/51) , Nessenmühle (1/1), Oberbürg (0/1), Oberhaidelbach (6/17), Obermühle (0/1), Pötzling (0/9), Pühlhof (0/1), Renzenhof (0/7), Rockenbrunn (0/1), Rösmühle (0/1), Scheerau (0/1), Schönberg (48/56), Schwaig (0/12), Tullnau (0/1), Ungelstetten + (1/6), Unterbürg (0/1), Unterhaidelbach (0/7), Unterröthenbach near Lauf (0/9), Weigenhofen ° (1/29), Wetzendorf (2/13), Winn (0/5), Zerzabelshof (0/15 ).

+ 1 property is located in the Fraisch district of the Burgthann office.
° 7 properties are located in the Fraisch district of the Hersbruck Care Office.

literature

  • Johann Bernhard Fischer : Oberamt Burgthann . 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. 45-60 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Oberamt Burgthann . In: Earth description of the Franconian principalities of Bayreuth and Anspach . Hemmerde and Schwetschke, Halle 1797, p. 312-317 ( digitized version ).
  • Gottfried Stieber: Upper Office Burgthann . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 9 ( digitized version ).
  • Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (Ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 .
  • Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 .
  • Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . 3. Edition. Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , p. 760 .
  2. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 47.
  3. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31, 33 .
  4. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 47.
  5. ↑ JB Fischer, p. 58.
  6. ↑ Höfen is Unterwellitzleithen.
    Address and statistical handbook for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 22 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ JB Fischer, pp. 50-55.
  8. ↑ JB Fischer, pp. 55-57.

Coordinates: 49 °  N , 11 °  E