Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Staatsarchiv Freiburg, B 685/1 - Achern District Office

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History of the authorities: The territorial reorganization of Germany by Napoleon almost doubled the territory of the former margraviate of Baden between 1803 and 1810. In 1803 it was elevated to the status of electorate and in 1806 to that of grand duchy. This made it necessary to restructure and standardize the administrative structures of the administratively heterogeneous state. The organizational edicts issued between 1806 and 1809 divided the Grand Duchy of Baden into 66 provincial and 53 municipal offices. The offices of the rank were abolished until 1849 or converted into the offices of the sovereign. The number of district offices in Baden was significantly reduced by mergers and abolitions in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally, the district offices were purely state authorities and as such were primarily responsible for general state administration and for state supervision of the actions of local administrations in their respective districts, but they also had to perform tasks of the police and - until the establishment of their own court organisation in 1857 - of the judiciary, in particular civil courts. The district offices established in 1809 were assigned to ten districts, whose executive bodies were the district directorates. The Achern office initially belonged to the Murgkreis district and became part of the Kinzigkreis in 1819. The administrative reform of 1832 replaced the meanwhile remaining six district directorates as central authorities by the district governments of four districts and allocated the Achern office to the Middle Rhine District. In 1864 the four districts were dissolved and the district offices were directly subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior. At the same time, the Grand Duchy was divided into eleven district associations as local self-governing bodies without state tasks, and the Achern district became part of the Baden district. For the purposes of state administrative supervision, the district offices and district associations were grouped into four state commissioner districts, headed by one state commissioner each with a seat and vote in the Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior. The Achern district office was added to the Karlsruhe state commissioner's district. In 1924 the Achern district office was abolished and the municipalities were assigned to the Bühl district. After the dissolution of the administrative district Bühl in 1973, the municipalities of the former administrative district Achern were assigned to the Ortenaukreis.<br /><br />Estandsgeschichte: Before the beginning of the registration work, the files of the administrative district Achern were distributed among the holdings B 685/1 and B 685/2. The aforementioned holdings were united to the holdings B 685/1 (new). In the process, foreign provenances of the Oberkirch District Office with a term ending after 1806 and before 1924 were taken and assigned to the holdings B 727/12 of the Freiburg State Archives according to their provenance. Files with a term ending before 1806 were separated and transferred to the General State Archives for reasons of competence. In justified exceptional cases, e.g. when the proportion of documents originating before 1806 in a file was limited to a few documents, files with a term before 1806 were also included in B 685/1 (new). Notes for use: Concordances in the printed version of the finding aid book for B 685/1 (new) show all presignatures of the individual files. The signature last used in the Freiburg State Archives before the new indexing is found under Presignature 1 and the signature formerly used in the Karlsruhe General State Archives under Presignature 2. The present holdings were recorded by Caroline Coort, Edgar Hellwig, Annika Scheumann and Sinah Waldvogel. Planning, organisation and coordination as well as final correction and final editing of the finding aid were carried out by the undersigned. The collection B 685/1 comprises 2689 fascicles and measures 18.4 linear metres. Freiburg, January 2017 Annette Riek

District offices, district administrator's offices

Es gelten die "Nutzungsbedingungen des Landesarchivs Baden-Württemberg

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