Office mountain maintenance

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The office of mountain maintenance , also just referred to as mountain maintenance , 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 located in the Neuwied Basin on the left bank of the Rhine and stretched over the foothills of the Mayengau from the present-day districts of Koblenz to Weißenthurm on the left of the Moselle .

history

The office of mountain maintenance was probably set up in the 14th century under the Trier Elector Baldwin (1307-1354). The office was headed by a bailiff . In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, the Engers office is not mentioned as one of 59 offices, but the Bergpflege office. Later, the Engers Office and the Mountain Maintenance Office were administered together.

The high court of the office of mountain maintenance was held on the Bubenheimer Berg, where the gallows stood.

From the name “Bergpflege” only “care” can be clearly identified; this meant an administrative and judicial district headed by a nurse . There have been two attempts to interpret the term “mountain”, but neither of them appear to be clearly conclusive. Mountain could therefore mean mountain slope, derived from the hillside location on the Rhine, perhaps mountain maintenance is also related to the former viticulture (vineyard).

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 mountain maintenance office there were then 603 fire places in the following places:

Locality Number fire pits Trier subjects Stranger serfs
Metternich 55 11 14th
Bubenheim 7th 5 2
Careless 79 65 14th
Mülheim 93 76 17th
Chained 128 90 38
Guls 69 56 13
Wallersheim 11 9 2
Kesselheim 15th 13 2
St. Sebastian 21st 16 5
Kaltenengers 17th 11 6th
Urmitz 27 21st 6th
Rübenach 81 76 5

According to a description of the office from 1786, the “Mayener Lease” was divided into the “Mayener Pflege”, the “Münsterpflege” and the “Bergpflege”.

Mountain maintenance was divided into 4 "Parthen" (parts):

At times, Engers on the right bank of the Rhine was also part of the mountain maintenance department.

In the official description of 1786 it was stated that none of the communities has special rights : "One is like the other held to reasonable frond, except for the town of Engers, which only has to deliver the game from the Hammerstein office and the neighboring forests to the court camp" . The electoral palaces in the area of ​​mountain maintenance were Schönbornslust near Kesselheim and the Schloss zu Kärlich .

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794. On the right bank of the Rhine, Engers was referred to as part of the mountain maintenance department until 1803.

Bailiffs

In 1779 Lothar Franz Freiherr von Kerpen was bailiff.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Laufner: The offices organization under Baldwin of Luxembourg; in: Johannes Mötsch , Franz-Josef Heyen (Hrsg.): Balduin von Luxemburg. Archbishop of Trier - Elector of the Empire. Festschrift on the occasion of the 700th year of birth. (= Sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine . Vol. 53). Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz 1985, pp. 289 ff., Digitized
  2. ↑ a b c d Anton Schwall: From the Kurtrierian mountain maintenance office in Koblenzer Heimatblatt, No. 9, 8th year, 1931 ( dilibri.de )
  3. ^ 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 , pp. 18, 67 ff., ( Online at dilibri.de).
  4. ↑ Des Hohen Erz-Stifts und Churfürstenthums Trier Hof-, Staats- und Stand-Kalender, 1779, p. 137, digitized