Altweilnau office

Altweilnau Castle

The Altweilnau office was a Nassau-Usingischer administrative district with its seat in Altweilnau . The office went on in the office Usingen .

In 1326 half of the County of Weilnau passed into Nassau hands. The castle Altweilnau now formed the core of Nassau domination in the middle Weiltal . 1328 the first bailiff of Altweilnau is named; An official structure was set up with the acquisition.

In an official description from 1557, Altweilnau, Riedelbach , Mauloff , Steinfischbach , Emmershausen , Winden , Langenbach as well as Wehrheim , Anspach and Obernhain were named as districts of the office. The same places, with the exception of Lauken, are also mentioned in a wisdom from 1482. In this way, in which the district court on the Rodelnberg near Riedelbach was invited, the invitation was not only issued by the Nassau-Dillenburg and the Nassau-Eppstein bailiff, but also by a Hessian bailiff. The blood jurisdiction (it was in the process to a death sentence for theft) was then performed jointly.

The lower jurisdiction in the office was mainly exercised by parish courts, which followed the church organization (and therefore not congruent with the official boundaries).

The multiple inheritance divisions of the House of Nassau also led to the office being divided among different branches. From the end of the 16th century, the Wehrheim office consisted of the places Wehrheim, Anspach and Obernhain. At the same time, Treisberg and Landstein were re-named as part of the office.

From 1659 the office belonged to Nassau-Usingen. Since 1667 the office was led in personal union by the bailiff of the office Usingen. In 1729 regent Charlotte Amalie von Nassau-Usingen decreed an administrative reform. As part of this reform, the Altweilnau office merged with the Usingen office.

literature

• Jost Kloft: Territorialgeschichte des Kreises Usingen , Marburg 1971, ISBN 3-7708-0421X , page 179-184, page 207