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    1803 and was assigned to Oberamt Beuren [de] until 1820 and then Oberamt Wald [de] until 1860. In 1938, the district of Wald was dissolved and Bärenthal...
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    Lörrach received its city rights in 1682 when it became the capital of the Oberamt Rötteln-Sausenberg. At the same time, its arms were granted. The arms show...
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    Altdorfer Wald, in: Beschreibung des Oberamts Ravensburg. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1836 (e-text and digital version at Wikisource) Der Altdorfer Wald, in:...
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    Arbeitskreis Ehemalige Synagoge Rottweil; Haigerloch. p. 18. ISBN 3-933231-83-3. "Oberamt Rottweil/Katasteramt Rottweil". Geometer Klaiber (in German). XXXV (28a)...
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    southeast, the subspace Schurwald of the natural area Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald in the northeast, and the subspace Nürtinger-Esslinger Neckartal, which is...
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    Eastern Swabian Foothills (Östliches Albvorland), Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald, as well as the Swabian-Franconian Mountain Forests (Schwäbisch-Fränkische...
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    Baden Murg valley (Amt of Gernsbach) and the Old Württemberg Enz valley (Oberamt Wildbad) did not run along the watershed of the Hohloh, but about two or...
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  • administrative seat was moved to Hinwil from Grüningen. The district was known as Oberamt Grüningen from 1815–1831, which continued the historical bailiwick of Grüningen...
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    earlier) until 1803, Heppenheim was the seat of the Electoral Mainz Amt (Oberamt) of Starkenburg. Once it passed to Hesse-Darmstadt, the Amt was abolished...
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    reorganization of the Duchy, Ilsfeld belonged to the Oberamt of Bietigheim beginning in 1808, and then to the Oberamt of Besigheim beginning in 1810. The settlement...
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    1453, the municipality belonged to the Schorndorf district office (or Oberamt Schorndorf from 1758 to 1934, then Kreis Schorndorf from 1934 to 1938)...
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    a side valley of the vierter Hauptgrund (“fourth main ground”) in the Oberamt of Lichtenberg, which corresponds exactly with the valley of the Bledesbach...
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    addition – later the Oberamt of Meisenheim – was assigned to the lesser Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. By inheritance, the Oberamt passed in 1866 to the...
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    1776, under Margrave Karl Friedrich, Birkenfeld became seat of the Badish Oberamt. In this time, Birkenfeld blossomed. The town experienced an economic and...
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    it might have lasted until 1570. This allegiance brought Auen into the Oberamt of Kreuznach. This was mentioned in a 1601 description of the Amt, which...
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    marched in during 1793, belonging administratively to the Zweibrücken Oberamt of Homburg and the Schultheißerei of Waldmohr. In 1801, France annexed...
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    above sea level, and in the south more than 300 m above sea level (Hertle-Wald 338 m). Interesting rural cadastral toponyms in Bosenbach include “Selgut”...
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    part of Sternberg until 1803 when it became part of the Oberamt of Bern. In 1831 the Oberamt was dissolved and Oberbalm was transferred to the successor...
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    northern part belongs to the Schurwald subarea of the Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald natural region, while its smaller southern part along the river course belongs...
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    Baindt in the north. It is located a few kilometers west of the Altdorfer Wald on the banks of the Schussen, a northern tributary of Lake Constance or the...
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    There was already Jewish schooling by 1829: religious instruction in the Oberamt of Meisenheim was held at two venues, alternating between Meisenheim and...
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    first belonged to the Oberamt of Zweibrücken and was the seat of its own Schultheißerei, but then in 1768 passed to the Oberamt of Homburg and the Schultheißerei...
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    boys and 89 girls. The parish belonged until the establishment of the Oberamt of Homburg in 1781 to the Inspection of Zweibrücken, to which the village...
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