Most of my german ancestors were from Baden and Wuerttemberg, Germany.

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German States, Kreise in Baden-Württemberg, Neckarkreis Oberämter, 

German States (Bundesländer)

Germany consists of the following 16 states:
Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thüringen.

Kreise (counties) in Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg consists of  44 Kreise: 35 Landkreise and 9 Stadtkreise. The nine Stadtkreise (marked *) are: Mannheim, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Baden-Baden, Stuttgart, Ulm and Freiburg.

Neckarkreis Oberämter

The Oberämter in the Neckarkreis are:

Backnang, Besigheim, Böblingen, Brackenheim, Cannstatt, Esslingen, Heilbronn, Leonberg, Ludwigsburg, Marbach, Maulbronn, Neckarsulm, Stuttgart, Stadtdirektion Stuttgart (as of  1822), Vaihingen/Enz, Waiblingen, Weinsberg.

The administration of the Neckarkreis was in Stuttgart and the administration of each Oberamt was in the respective town. Oberämter existed until the 1930s. The archival documents of the Neckarkreis as well as most of the archival documents of the Oberämter of the Neckarkreis administration are located at the Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg.

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