Allendorf Office

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The Allendorf office was a territorial administrative unit of the Landgraviate of Hesse , from 1567 of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and from 1803 of the Electorate of Hesse . Until the administrative and territorial reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821 and the related resolution made it as official spatial reference point for claiming nationalistic taxes and labor services , for police , judiciary and military service .

Geographical location

The area of ​​the Allendorf district lay in the Werra valley ( Soodener Bergland ) between the Eichsfeld in the north, the Hohe Meißner in the southwest and the Gobert ridge in the east. In the official area the Walse flows into the Werra. The Schifflersgrund was in the border area to the Eichsfeld .

The southern part of the small official area is now in the northeast of the state of Hesse and belongs to the Werra-Meißner district . Due to the Wanfrieder Agreement , the northern districts of Asbach , Sickenberg , Hennigerode, Vatterode and Weidenbach and Altenstein Castle have been in Thuringia since 1945. Today they belong to the Eichsfeld district .

Adjacent administrative units

The territory of the office bordered:

history

Since 1385 the formation of an office with the main town Allendorf is weakly recognizable, but only in the 16th century an office Allendorf with four official places and eleven noble places is proven. It belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse and came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel when the estate was divided in 1567 . The places Dietzenrode and Wahlhausen , to which the Landgraviate made claims for a long time, finally went to the Electoral Mainz Eichsfeld ( Hanstein's court) after 1583 . The district of Altenstein Castle, already mentioned in 1329, with the places Asbach, Sickenberg Weidenbach and from 1438 also Hennigerode belonged to the office. This was in the possession of the Lords of Bischoffshausen , who bought it again in 1643 and finally sold it to Hessen in 1753. Since then, the Altenstein court has been an independent entity under the authority of Allendorf.

During the French occupation, the area belonged to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 and was divided along the Werra. Sooden, Weiden, Ahrensberg and Ellershausen, located orographically to the left of the Werra, came to the canton of Sooden in the Eschwege district of the Werra department . Allendorf, Kleinvach, Asbach, Sickenberg, Valterode, Hennigerode, Wiedenbach and Altenstein Castle, located orographically to the right of the Werra, were assigned to the canton Allendorf in the Heiligenstadt district of the Harz department.

After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1813, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel, now known as the Electorate of Hesse , was restored with its previous administrative structure. The Kurhessische Amt Allendorf existed until 1821 and was then assigned to the district of Witzenhausen in the course of the Kurhessischen administrative reform .

Associated places

Cities
Official Villages
Noble places
Noble places that belonged to the Altenstein court
Castles and Palaces
Yards
  • near Allendorf: Alte Hainsmühle, Dammhaus, Halbemark, Hartgemühle, Lückertshof
Desolation
  • near Allendorf: Westera, Emmicherode, Glimmerode, Musbach, Altenhain, Balzerode
  • near Kleinvach: Dohlsmühle, Wettigendorf
  • near Altenstein: Bleichhof, Dieffenhof, Hopfenhof, Scheuerhof, Wickenhof
  • Osterburg in Allendorf, 1891 as Castle Rothestein rebuilt

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Altenstein Castle in RegioWiki
  2. ^ Altenstein Castle in Wiki Genealogy
  3. ^ Allendorf, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

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