Office Battenberg

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Hessian hinterland (excluding the Vöhl exclave ) 1815–1866

The Office Battenberg was from the late 13th to the early 19th century, one administrative unit under repeatedly changing rulers. The majority of his area was in what is now the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse . The office initially belonged to Kurmainz , then to the Landgraviate of Hessen , the Landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg , the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and finally to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The office was in the so-called "Hessian hinterland" , which essentially shared its history and existed until 1821.

history

The office , which was responsible for both administration and jurisdiction, was established in 1291/96 when Hermann II of Battenberg († 1310), the last of his family branch, sold his small county of Battenberg to Archbishop Gerhard II of Mainz and the ore monastery then appointed a bailiff at Battenberg Castle for this area - castle and town of Battenberg and the courts of Laisa, Battenfeld and Münchhausen . At least from the middle of the 14th century, the office was almost always pledged to third parties , including the Counts of Nassau and von Waldeck , the Lords of Lißberg , von Dersch , Schutzbar called Milchling and von Biedenfeld .

In 1464 the office of Battenberg was given to Landgrave Heinrich III for 30,000 guilders . pledged by Upper Hesse . With the Merlau Treaty in September 1583, Kurmainz u. A. finally to the entire Battenberg pledge, which came to the short-lived Landgraviate Hessen-Marburg . After Landgrave Ludwig IV's death in 1604, the office of Battenberg came first to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel , then in 1624 de facto and in 1648 de jure as part of the so-called " hinterland " to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , which Napoleon became the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806 was raised.

The Battenberg office ceased to exist in 1821 when, as part of the Grand Ducal Hessian administrative reform, which separated the jurisdiction from the administration, with the courts of Breidenbach and Breidenstein , the part of the office Biedenkopf on the left side of the Lahn and the part on the right Lahn located village Wolfgruben was combined to the district Battenberg. The jurisdiction for the places in the former Battenberg office was assigned to the newly formed district court Biedenkopf . In 1832 the district of Battenberg was added to the newly created district of Biedenkopf , and on August 1, 1835, the places of the former Battenberg district were removed from the jurisdiction of the Biedenkopf district court and assigned to that of the Battenberg district court, which was newly formed for this purpose .

Associated places

When the office was awarded to Hessen-Darmstadt in 1627, the following places belonged to the office of Battenberg:

In the Landgravial Hessian state and address calendar of 1794, the following places are listed as belonging to Am Battenberg:

Officer

Bailiffs

  • Frank von Mengerskirche (1372)
  • Siegfried von Biedenfeld (1375)
  • Johann von Gleimenhain (1376)
  • Dietrich Gaugrebe (1378, 1379, 1385, 1391, 1392, 1393, 1395)
  • Werner von der Malsburg (1384, 1385, 1392)
  • Johann von Falkenberg (1393, 1395)
  • Hildebrand Gaugrebe (1399)
  • Friedrich von Hertingshausen (1416)
  • NN of Wolmeringhausen the Elder (1423, 1426, 1427)
  • Guntram Schenk zu Schweinsberg (1454, 1455, 1457)
  • Johann Schenk zu Schweinsberg (1471, 1478, 1479, 1481)
  • Georg von Hatzfeld (1489)
  • Johann Rudolf Victor von Pretlack (1717–) (Oberamtmann)

Rentmaster

  • Widukind von Lehrbach (many mentions from 1480 to 1515)
  • Hans Grebe (mentions 1520 to 1539)
  • Ludwig Grebe (1546)
  • Konrad von Breidenstein (1557)
  • Philipp Orth (1581, 1587)
  • Heinrich Ebel (1587, 1596)

literature

  • Ludwig Lotzenius: History of the Hessian offices Battenberg and weather , edited by Matthias Seim. Battenberger Geschichtsblätter, Volume 38, Battenberg 2013.
  • Matthias Seim, Christel Kahler: Historical description of the Battenberg office around 1750 . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Battenberg History Association. Battenberger Geschichtsblätter, Volume 41, Battenberg 2018.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ August Friederich Wilhelm Crome: Handbook of statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. . . . , First part. Leske, Darmstadt, 1822, p. 487 (table from the province of Upper Hesse: the division of the province of Upper Hesse into Landraths districts and into regional courts)
  2. ^ Announcement regarding the constitution of a new regional court in Battenberg on July 3, 1835 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. p. 340 )
  3. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 point 6e) ( online at google books ).
  4. ↑ Landgravial Hessian State and Address Calendar , Darmstadt, 1794, pp. 194–197 ( Google Books )