Office Ahaus

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The Amt Ahaus was an administrative unit in the bishopric of Münster and from 1802 in the Principality of Salm .

Historical development

Coat of arms of the rule of Ahaus (noblemen of Ahaus)

The Ahaus office was formed by the Prince Diocese of Münster with the arbitrary amalgamation of various corporations. On November 13, 1400, the Ahaus dominion was sold to the Bishop of Münster. Bernhard von Diepenbrock received the order from Lothar von Supplingburg , Duke of Saxony and later Emperor, to build a castle in the Ahaus area. This happened in the years 1115 to 1125 with the construction of the "Haus an der Aa" roughly where the moated castle Ahaus stands today. His son Lifhard named himself "von Ahaus" in the middle of the 12th century. The castle settlement in front of the castle gradually grew into a community with legal quality (1353 own judge). In 1389 the castle settlement received an excise privilege and in 1391 city rights. This rule of Ahaus was formed in 1406 together with parts of the office on the Braem as the office of Ahaus . From then on, Ahaus was also the seat of the official resignation . The final legally effective union of the two offices of Ahaus ( glory Ahaus ) and Auf dem Braem did not take place until the 16th century. The time of the Hochstift Münster ended with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803 . The property went to the princes of Salm-Salm . In 1806 the principality joined the Confederation of the Rhine and remained under the protectorate of France or its satellite state until 1813 . With the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the French era ended and the area fell to Prussia .

territory

The area of ​​the Ahaus office, overview map

According to the welcome estimate of 1498, the parishes of Borken, Erle, Gescher, Heiden, Hervest, Holsterhausen, Lembeck, Lippramsdorf, Raesfeld, Ramsdorf, Reken, Rhade, Altschermbeck, Stadtlohn, Südlohn, Velen, Weseke and Wulfen were in the office on the Braem also belonged the glories Lembeck and Ostendorf zu Lippramsdorf with in the official area. The parishes of Ahaus, Alstätte, Vreden and Wüllen were located in the glory of Ahaus.

Church division

The official area was divided into several archdeaconates : The older archdeaconate Bocholt also included Dinxperlo, Brodenahle (Anholt), Ramestorpe (Ramsdorf), Velen, Reken and Schermbeck and was later merged with the archdeacon Auf dem Braem to form the new archdeaconate Winterswijk in 1660 . After unification, the parishes Altschermbeck, Borken, Brünen, Dingden, Erle, Gemen, Groß Reken, Heiden, Holtwick, Klein Reken, Osterwick, Raesfeld, Ramsdorf, Velen and Weseke were added. In the north, the archdeaconate of the cathedral thesaurus touched the official area. It included the parishes of Albachten, Alverskirchen, Alstätte, Epe, Gronau, Heek, Leer, Nienborg, Ottenstein, Rhede, Roxel, Vreden, Wessum, Wüllen and, in Holland, also Aalten, Borculo, Dinxperlo, Groenlo, Hengelo, Lichtenvoorde, Neede, Zilvolden and Varsseveld.

The official resignation

From 1559 onwards, members of the Droste zu Vischering noble family took office in the district. They were the representatives of the sovereign here . Heidenreich Droste zu Vischering provides a chronological list of official deaths .

jurisdiction

In the district there were princely courts in Ahaus, City Court Borken, City Court Stadtlohn, City Court Ramsdorf, Gogericht Homborn, the Office on the Braem, which included: Gogericht Borken, Gescher Court, Gogericht Stadtlohn, Südlohn Court and the Gogericht Gerlinkloe or Vreden. Private dishes were in Lembeck, Lippramsdorf, Velen, Raesfeld and Weseke.

swell

Landesarchiv NRW, Westphalia department in Münster. Holdings for the Ahaus office

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