Bailiwick district

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A bailiwick district was a territorial unit in the Holy Roman Empire (HRR), which formed the area of ​​responsibility of a bailiwick office .

definition

The area of ​​responsibility of a bailiwick office comprised all possessions in which this office exercised favorable rights . These rights are based on the manorial individual possessions, so that this resulted in a fragmentation of the preferred area of ​​competence. Unlike the spatially closed high court districts of pennies and Fraischämter therefore the Bailiwick districts were usually a conglomerate of different land ownership. In terms of their structure, they were therefore comparable to the ownership structure of a farm whose field plots are scattered in the communal corridor and which are partly spread over the area of ​​several districts . If the Vogteiamt exercised the rule of the village and community within a village marker, this also fell to the exercise of the Vogteilichen jurisdiction . In the Swabian-Franconian area, this was the decisive criterion in order to be able to claim sovereignty over the relevant village markings.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingomar Bog: Forchheim . In: Commission for Bavarian State History (Hrsg.): Historischer Atlas von Bayern . Munich 1955, p. 15 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de [accessed on April 11, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Höchstadt-Herzogenaurach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 25 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de [accessed April 14, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 87 .