Office of Beilstein

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The office of Beilstein was a Nassau office in the eastern Westerwald, which developed from the Kalenberger Zent and also included the rule of the Westerwald .

history

With Johann von Seelbach-Zeppenfeld (1477–1492) a bailiff for Beilstein is mentioned for the first time. The district included the Kalenberger Zent and often also the rule of the Westerwald. A first court order for the Kalenberger Zent was issued in 1492 by Heinrich IV. Von Nassau-Beilstein . Due to the small size of the County of Nassau-Beilstein, no formal administrative structure was created. The bailiff was also a member of the county central administration. The bailiff was supported by the Landesschultheißen zu Beilstein (first mentioned in 1548) and the zum Westerwald (first mentioned in 1612). The office also formed a cellar district at the head of which stood as a cellar in Beilstein (first mentioned in 1447). From 1521 an additional cellar was used in Mengerskirchen. The central financial administration was the responsibility of the rentmaster (first mentioned in 1482). A Heimberger presided over every place of the office .

In 1561 the County of Nassau-Beilstein fell to the House of Nassau-Dillenburg. This incorporated the Beilstein office into the administration of their county. Formally, however, the county of Nassau-Beilstein remained independent. The cause lay in the fact that the two counties belonged to different regions . Beilstein belonged to the Kurrheinische Kreis , while Dillenburg belonged to the Westphalian District . In Beilstein there was an independent upper court with subordinate courts for the rule of Beilstein in Beilstein, Nenderoth and Mengerskirchen, as well as for the rule of the Westerwald in Emmerichenhein, Marienberg Neukirch and Liebenscheid. The judge of the Oberhofgericht carried the title Landschultheiß.

From 1607 the County of Nassau-Beilstein was temporarily independent again from Dillenburg under Count Georg von Nassau-Dillenburg . The bailiff zu Beilstein also became chancellor of the new county.

When Count Georg moved to Dillenburg in 1620, independence ended. The county of Nassau-Beilstein was divided among the remaining Nassau lines. The Beilstein office fell almost entirely on the Nassau-Diez line . Only the parish Mengerskirchen fell to the county of Nassau-Hadamar, which united it with the parish Elsoff to form the new Mengerskirchen office.

By 1743 the House of Nassau-Diez inherited the remaining lines of the Ottonian branch of the House of Nassau. In 1782 there was a comprehensive administrative reform that led to the dissolution of the Beilstein office. The places were divided between the existing offices of Mengerskirchen / Ellar and Driedorf and the newly formed offices of Marienberg and Rennerod . Out of consideration for the last bailiff Johann Gerhard Franz Chelius, however, the implementation was delayed until 1790.

Places in the Beilstein office

Separated into the new Mengerskirchen office (1620)

Resolution 1782/90

To the newly established Rennerod Office:

To the Mengerskirchen Office:

To the newly established Marienberg Office:

To the Driedorf Office:

  • Parish of Beilstein

Bailiffs

  • Johann von Seelbach-Zeppenfeld (1477–1492)
  • Johann von Bellersheim (1500–1511)
  • Konrad von Welschenengsten (1527)
  • Eberhard Wolfkehl von Fetzberg (1544–1548)
  • Gothard of Seelbach (1557)
  • Berthold Schorey (1610-1616)
  • Martin Naurath (1620-1637)
  • Christoph Becker (1642–1650)
  • Severin Quilauw (1682)
  • Preussler (1683)
  • Johann von Diez (1691)
  • Gerhard Gottfried Grüter (1712–1730)
  • Johann Jakob von der Mühlen (1731–1749)
  • Heinrich Ludwig Parcus (around 1750)
  • Andreas Jeckeln (1765–1769)
  • Johann Gerhard Franz Chelius (1782–1790)

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