Rezatkreis

The Rezatkreis, between 1806 and 1837, was one of the 15 districts of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Its name meant in German the “District of the Rezat” because the Fränkische Rezat River ran through it. It was the predecessor of the ''Regierungsbezirks Mittelfranken'' (Administrative Regional District of Middle Franconia). Its center was Anspach.

Independent cities

* Anspach
* Eichstätt
* Erlangen
* Fürth
* Nüremberg
* Schwabach

Subdivisions

The district was divided in the following judicial districts ('' Landgerichte''):

* Altdorf bei Nürnberg
* Anspach (outside the city)
* Markt Bibart
* Cadolzburg
* Dinkelsbühl
* Markt Erlbach
* Feuchtwangen
* Forchheim
* Gräfenberg
* Gunzenhausen
* Heilsbronn
* Herrieden
* Hersbruck
* Herzogenaurach
* Höchstadt an der Aisch
* Lauf an der Pegnitz
* Leutershausen
* Neustadt an der Aisch
* Nürnberger Land
* Rothenburg ob der Tauber
* Scheinfeld
* Uffenheim
* Wassertrüdingen
* Windsheim

History

In the years between 1806 and 1808, the Kingdom of Bavaria was divided into 15 (administrative) districts, whose names were taken from the local rivers. The ''Rezatkreis'' was bordered in the north by the Bavarian ''Mainkreis'' (''Obermainkreis'' after 1817), in the east by the ''Pegnitzkreis'' and the ''Altmühlkreis'' (until 1810), in the south by the Bavarian ''Oberdonaukreis'' and in the west by the Württemberger ''Jagstkreis''. In 1817, the number of districts was reduced from eight to seven (with the ''Rheinpfalz''). The Pegnitzkreis and the northern part of the former ''Altmühlkreis'' (which had belonged since 1810 to the ''Oberdonaukreis'') were added to the ''Rezatkreis''. Anspach was the district capital 'Kreisstadt'' At the request of King Ludwig I, the Territorial Reorganization (''Gebietsreform'') was made on 29 November 1837. Consequently, on 1 January 1838, the ''Rezatkreis'' became ''Mittelfranken'' pper Franconia one of the seven current ''Regierungsbezirke'' of the Kingdom and later State of Bavaria.

Literature

* (de) ''Handbuch der bayerischen Ämter, Gemeinden und Gerichte 1799 - 1980'' (Guide of the Bavarian Districts, Municipalities and Courts 1799 - 1980), written by Richard Bauer, Reinhard Heydenreuter, Gerhard Heyl, Emma Mages, Max Piendl, August Scherl, Bernhard Zittel and edited by Wilhelm Volkert, Senior Professor at the University of Regensburg, Munich, 1983,
* (de) Prof. Dr. Karl Friedrich Hohn
''Der Retzatkreis des Königreichs Bayern: geographisch, statistisch und historisch beschrieben''
he Retzatkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria: Described Geographically, Historically and Statistically Nuremberg, 1829

Maps

* (en) Christoph Fembo (artist and editor), Johann W. Kneusel (engraver)
''Charte vom Rezatkreis. Mit der Eintheilung in Land- und Herrschafts-Gerichte.''
ap of the Rezatkreis. With the Division of State and Local SubdivisionsCharter of Rezatkreis. With the division into land and domination courts] Nuremberg, 1819 (digitized image from the :de:Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf, ''Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf'' niversity and State Library of Düsseldorf.

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