The locations of
the Fuggers
Herrschaftorte der
Fugger
Adelshofen,
Aufhausen,
Babenhausen,
Bebenhausen, Bergheim,
Biberbach,
Bibersburg
in Ungarn, Blumenthal, Bollweiler,
Boos,
Brandenburg,
Buch,
Burgwalden,
Deisenhausen,
Dietenheim,
Duttenstein,
Eppishausen,
Gablingen,
Glött,
Göttersdorf,
Grönenbach,
Gundelsheim,
Hainhofen,
Heimertingen,
Hilgartsberg,
Hoheneck,
Illerberg, Kettershausen, Kirchberg,
Kirchheim,
Kirrberg,
Kleinkissendorf,
Leeder,
Leitershofen,
Markt
Wald, Mauerstetten,
Mattsies,
Mickhausen,
Möhren, Mohrenhausen, Niederalfingen,
Nordendorf,
Obenhausen,
Oberndorf,
Pfaffenhofen,
Pfirt,
Reinhartshausen,
Pleß,
Rettenbach,
Schmiechen,
Schwabmünchen,
Schwindegg,
Seifertshofen,
Stettenfels,
Sulmentingen,
Taufkirchen,
Tiefenried,
Tratzberg,
Türkenfeld,
Untersulmetingen,
Waldberg,
Waltenhausen,
Wallerstetten,
Wasserburg
am Bodensee,
Weißenhorn,
Welden,
Wellenburg,
Wörth,
Wullenstetten,
Zinneberg
Some expressions
which are common:
Hofmark: is the expression of a region which
belonged to Bavaria
but the adminstration was handeled by a count, in this case one of the
counts Fugger. The size was different, it could be a small village or
several
big villages. The area could be closed that means all land in this area
belonged to the same county or open, that means several counts were
owner
in a region. Sometimes more or less every house belonged to a different
count or clergyman. The adminstration in Bavaria from the middle ages
to
1848 had two types one was the areas which was adminstrated directly by
the duke (later elector or king) of Bavaria, the other type was the
Hofmark.
The head of the Hofmark was also the head of the lower justice. He had
to pay money to the duke of Bavaria and he got money or services by the
people who had rented parts of his land. The Hofmark was no more in use
after 1848 (new adminstration in Bavaria).
Herrschaft: is the
expression of an area belonging
to a count. Most of the Herrschaften were outside of the Bavaria in the
boarders before 1806. The next upper adminstration unit were
Reichskreise.
We
had only few Reichskreise in South Germany (Bavarian Kreis the same
area
as the state of Bavaria, Schwäbischer Kreis, almost all other
areas
outside of Bavaria and Austria). Most Herrschaften of the Fugger
belonged
to the Schwäbischer (Swabian) Kreis. The titel of the head of
a Herrschaft
was Freiherr (baron) or Graf
(count). A county could be a
Reichsfürstentum. At the end of the old state (at 1806) the
title
of the governor of a Reichsfürstentum was mainly prince (in
German
Fürst). The titles were granted by the emperor (see section
Standeserhebungen
und Gnadenakte für das deutsche Reich). Normally all
wealthy people
got one of the noble title if they want to have such a title and payed
enough for it (until 1806 by the emperor in Vienna, later util 1918 by
a king or the German emperor after 1871).
Reichsfürstentum:
this area, normally much
bigger than a Hofmark, was an area where the count, bishop, head of an
abbey, lord etc. was the head not only for adminstration and law (lower
and upper law, where upper law is defined for severe actions where a
person
could be punished with death) and where the head reported directly to
the
emperor. The smaller Reichfürstentümer like
Babenhausen lost
their independency 1803/1806 (Napoleon reorganized mainly South Gemany
were the bigger countries like Bavaria, Baden and Wuerttemberg gained
the
land of the Reichsfürstentümer. The former owner of
the Reichsfürstentum
was now reporting to the king of Bavaria, Wuerttemberg etc. The emperor
in Vienna resigned 1806.
Regierungsbezirk: the
expression of a bigger area
(nowadays 1 to 3 million inhabitants) is the next section in the
adminstration
in Bavaria. This form of administration was founded unter king Max I.
and
his chancellor Montgelas after 1806. Most of the Regierungsbezirke are
more or less of the sime size since the beginning of the 19th century.
Bavaria has now 7 Regierungsbezirke, the Fugger mainly had land in the
Regierungsbezirk Schwaben (Bavarian Swabia) and some in Oberbayern
(Upper
Bavaria).
Kreis: the next lower
section of administration.
The Kreise were made in the beginning of the 19th century and changed
in
1848. The size of the Kreis was constant for more than 100 years, it
was
changed about 1972 where the size of inhabitants was defined to be at
least
80.000 people.
Sources: Haus der Bayerischen
Geschichte
Haus
der Geschichte
Baden-Württemberg
Änderungsstand: 09-Dez-2012 Upd 04-Jul-2018