Foreword Forest Office Amorbach: History of the authorities: In the forestry organisation of 1852 a municipal district Amorbach and a municipal archive Kirchzell (seat Amorbach) belonged to the forestry office Stadtprozelten founded at that time. Probably these districts are founded from the former Fürstlich Leiningischen Wald. The enforcement ordinance of 23.7.1885 then established 58 new forestry offices in Lower Franconia. One of them was also the forestry office Amorbach with its forestry assistant office. In 1929 it was converted into a forest administrator's post and in 1942 finally into a head forester's post. After the war until 1972 the forestry office Amorbach existed. It was not until the area reform in 1972 that it was finally dissolved and became part of the Miltenberg forestry office in 1973. Tradition: The files at hand mainly date from the period of the fort (end of the 19th / middle of the 20th century). With the exception of a few generalia and other overlapping processes, they concern the municipal forests around the area of the forestry office. Amorbach's area of responsibility comprises almost no state forests, but mainly municipal and private forests. The files are arranged according to the file plan valid until about 1950. It is placed in front of the search book. The files, which were already in the State Archives before 2005, are assigned to the new file plan, which also precedes the finding aid book. Filing: The files were submitted here via the Miltenberg Forestry Office in the course of the 2005 forest reform. A smaller earlier tax is also included. Use: A subject index has been omitted, since subject terms can be easily researched via the respective valid file plans. Würzburg, June 2009 Barbara Hellmann