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    Bruchsal gave it to Ludwig II, Electoral Palatin. It was part of Oberamt Heidelberg in 1351. It was sacked by Baden and Württemberg troops in the Mainz...
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    lies on the right bank of the river Neckar, 10 km (6 mi) northwest of Heidelberg and 10 km (6 mi) east of Mannheim. The town's history goes back to the...
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    an administrative district; an Oberamt was a larger district, subdivided into Unterämter. Oberamt Zweibrücken Oberamt Homburg (acquired in 1755 in a territorial...
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    Palatinate, and Mosbach became the capital of the administrative district of "Oberamt Mosbach". In 1806 the city was made part of the Grand Duchy of Baden. In...
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    Mühlacker radio transmitter was put into operation. With the dissolution of Oberamt Maulbronn, young city Mühlacker in 1938 was incorporated into district...
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    area) Lower Margraviate of Baden-Durlach Oberamt of Pforzheim Amt of Stein/Langensteinbach Oberamt of Durlach Oberamt Karlsruhe (earlier composed of the Ämter...
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    Elector of Hannover. Cavendish, Richard. "Sophia of Hanover Dies". History Today, Vol. 64 Issue 6, June 2014 Beschreibung des Oberamts Urach - page 103...
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    in Ellwangen in 1857. From 1861 to 1900, Mittnacht was a Deputy for the Oberamt Mergentheim in the lower house (German: Abgeordnetenhaus) of the Württemberg...
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    furnished Oberamt Bietigheim was in 1810, however, dissolved again: the city and its official municipalities were integrated in the Oberamt Besigheim...
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    Reformation was introduced into the town. In 1816, the Isenburg-Birstein Oberamt of Offenbach passed along with Dreieichenhain to Hesse. The placename Hain...
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    to minister to the Catholics in the town of Simmern and the like-named Oberamt. With the family Schenk von Schmidtburg's help, the Carmelites founded...
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    Electorate of the Palatinate, and since the end of the 14th century to the Heidelberg Oberamt district. With the transfer to Baden in 1803, Weinheim became the...
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    the Oppenheim Town Hall was almost completely destroyed. The Electoral Oberamt archive, too, was lost in the fire, and so it was moved to Mainz.[clarification...
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    Cities became part of Württemberg in 1803. Heilbronn became the seat of an Oberamt (district), and the four Imperial Free villages became separate communities...
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    Amtskellerei (an administrative unit) within the higher administrative unit (Oberamt) of Starkenburg with its centre in Heppenheim. In 1803, Hirschhorn came...
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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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  • Paulus, Eduard (1855). "Beschreibung des Oberamts Herrenberg". Paulus, Karl Eduard (1867) Beschreibung des Oberamts Tübingen Schmid (1853), p. 62. "Die Pfalzgrafen...
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    Casimirianum, because his Lutheran brother, Louis had cleared the university in Heidelberg of Calvinists; John Casimir was active as an advocate of the reformed...
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  • century, Riet belonged to the bailiwick of Vaihingen and its successors Oberamt, Kreis, and so on, and was incorporated into Vaihingen in 1973. After the...
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    Tübingen and about 30,000 residents in the administrative district of Oberamt Tübingen that then included Tübingen. In 1861/1862, the still preserved...
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    158. Beschreibung des Oberamts Ehingen § Geschichtliche Denkwürdigkeiten (on Wikisource in German: 'Description of the Oberamt of Ehingen § Historically...
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  • (NIB for Niebüll) merged into Nordfriesland (NF). The rural districts of Heidelberg (HD), Mannheim (MA) and part of Sinsheim (SNH) merged into Rhein-Neckar-Kreis...
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    village was seat of an Unteramt within the Veldenz, and later Zweibrücken, Oberamt of Meisenheim. The Unteramt seat was later moved to Einöllen. Sulzbach...
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    part of the kingdom of Württemberg. Forchtenberg was allocated to the Oberamt or higher court of Öhringen, which became the District of Öhringen in 1938...
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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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    Untersuchung …. In Digi UB Uni Heidelberg of 1875, Volume 2, pp. 38–52. Paulus Hartmann; et al. Description of the Oberamt of Balingen. Hossingen: Statistical...
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    of Veldenz had died out in the male line. Castle Lichtenberg became the Oberamt of Lichtenberg. The struggle over the small Reims area was also pursued...
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    latter being particularly frightful in the Konken area. According to an Oberamt of Lichtenberg ecclesiastical organizational protocol, in 1609 – nine years...
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    Bauernkrieg und Literatur, p. 103 G. Schenk, Laupheim, p. 24 Beschreibung des Oberamts Laupheim, p. 85 Johannes Kesslers Sabbata, p. 332 H. Rabe, Reich und Glaubensspaltung...
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    since 1855 administrative official (Verwaltungsaktuar) of the district (Oberamt) of Oberndorf a.N., mayor (Stadtschultheiß) of Oberndorf a.N. from 1870...
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