Reichsstadt Rottweil
(Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
by Theo Engeser, Villingendorf, and Martin Dilger, Berlin

Location and Territory

• Location
• Territory -
  General remarks
• Reichsstadt Rottweil (prior 1802)
• Oberamt Rottweil
• Landkreis Rottweil

The Territory of the Reichsstadt Rottweil till 1802

The city Rottweil was until 1802, when it got a part of Württemberg, an independent city within the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation ("Frei- und Reichsstadt") and had no other souvereign than the Emperor. It had a small, however, non-coherent territory of up to 30 villages (at the same time) around it.

The red colour on the following map indicates the affiliation to the Reichsstadt Rottweil. The green marked areas belonged to Württemberg. The khaki-coloured areas show the possessions of Austria ("Vorderösterreich"). The yellow mark is the border of the Landkreis Rottweil as it is today.

Source: Historischer Atlas von Baden-Württemberg. Detail of sheet VI.9 ("Reichskreise und Stände des Schwäbischen Kreises um 1800", edited by Gerd Friedrich Nüske). © Kommission für geschichtliche Landeskunde in Baden-Württemberg from 23-Sept-2004, Az.: 876, and Landesvermessungsamt Baden-Württemberg from 22-Sept-2004, Az.: 2851.2-D/3111.

Here the names of the villages of the former Reichsstadt Rottweil (red parts of the map).
In brackets the dates of acquirement:

The following villages do not belong anymore to the present-day Landkreis Rottweil:

• Aixheim (-> County Tuttlingen)
• Balgheim (-> County Tuttlingen)
• Dauchingen (-> County Villingen-Schwenningen)
• Frittlingen (-> County Tuttlingen)
• Kappel (-> County Villingen-Schwenningen)
• Mühlhausen (-> County Villingen-Schwenningen)
• Niedereschach (-> County Villingen-Schwenningen)
• Sinkingen (-> County Villingen-Schwenningen)
• Weilersbach (-> County Villingen-Schwenningen)