Office Baldenau

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Baldenau Castle

The Baldenau office was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier that existed from the 14th century to the end of the 18th century . It was part of the Upper Archbishopric Trier and subordinated to the Oberamt Bernkastel . It was named after Baldenau Castle , which was built in 1315 .

Associated places

At the end of the HRR , the office consisted of the following locations: Bischofsthron , Commen , Heinzerath , Hinzerath , Hontheim , Horath , Hoschel , Longcamp , Moersbach , Morbach , Morscheid , Rapperath , Wederath , Wingerath and Wolsburg . There were also 4 Frohnstätten (2 in Frohnhofen and 2 in Kleinich ). The place Emmeroth originally belonged to the office but was switched to Pfalz-Zweibrücken .

history

In the 15th century, two are with Rulmann of Partenheim and Clas of Nattenheim bailiffs handed.

Archbishop Johann VI. (1556–1567) ordered a four-year land tax on November 26, 1556 with the consent of the state estates in Koblenz. The tax amounted to 3.5 guilders per 1000 guilders of wealth. On July 20, 1563, he requested reports from all offices that should provide information about the places and the taxpayers there. In the Baldenau office there were 254 fire places in the following places:

Locality Number fire pits
Longkamp 39
Come 12
Horath 19th
Merschbach 8th
Morscheid, Hoxel, Wolzburg 22nd
Gutenthal 9
Heinzerath 21st
Wederath 10
Rapperath 18th
Morbach 25th
Hontheim 25th
Hinzerath 22nd
Lessath 13
Bishop's throne 12

Some places were partly subject to interest from the Hunolstein and Baldenau authorities.

In 1779 Joseph Nepomuk Erbschenk, Baron von Schmidburg was bailiff .

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794. In the French era , the area belonged to the Département de la Sarre .

See also

literature

  • Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old empire: Edition and commentary on the Electoral Trier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, Volume 1, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 124–125.
  • Jacob Marx : History of the Archbishopric Trier . Linz, Trier 1858, p. 249 ( books.google.de ).
  • Peter Brommer: The offices of Kurtrier: manorial rule, jurisdiction, taxation and residents; Edition of the so-called Feuerbuch from 1563, 2003, ISBN 3-929135-40-X , p. 29, 423-491.

Individual evidence

  1. Des Hohen Erz-Stifts und Churfürstenthums Trier Hof-, Staats- und Stand-Kalender, 1779, p. 116, digitized

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 54 ″  E