Office Bolanden

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The office Bolanden was an administrative and judicial district in the northern Palatinate on the Donnersberg .

geography

The following localities belonged to the office:

Bolanden (with Neubolanden Castle and Hane Abbey ), Dreisen (with the Münsterhof ), Marnheim , Elbisheimerhof , Hahnweilerhof , Standenbühl and Weitersweiler (1/3 = the southern part of the village)

history

Originally ruled by the Lords of Bolanden, a local noble family, the Electoral Palatinate acquired Bolanden, Dreisen and Marnheim from the Bolanders between 1376 and 1380 . In 1410 when the Palatinate was divided , the office fell to Pfalz-Simmern . Palatinate-Simmern then lent 2/3 of Weitersweiler (the northern part) to the Barons Wambold von Umstadt . After the dissolution of the Münsterdreisen monastery , Standenbühl also belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and thus to the Bolanden office. From 1611 Pfalz-Simmern had the rights to Standenbühl until they reverted to the Electoral Palatinate in 1674. Before 1706, Standenbühl was spun off from the Bolanden Office and attached to the Upper Palatinate Office of Alzey . In 1706 Bolanden, Dreisen, Marnheim and the southern part of Weitersweiler, as well as the monastery Hane , Bolanderhof and Weierhof were exchanged for the "Rheindörfer" with Nassau-Weilburg, and the lordship of Kirchheim and Stauf was incorporated.

religion

After the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War , the Bolanden office was shaped by the electoral Palatinate sovereignty, evangelically reformed . Only Weitersweiler, due to his membership of the Catholic Barons Wambold von Umstadt, remained Catholic for the most part. Mennonites settled on the Weierhof , a hamlet between Marnheim and Bolanden, after the Thirty Years War .

literature

  • G. Franz: The Thirty Years' War and the German People, Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1979, 4th edition
  • M. Hoffmann: Die Verbandsgemeinde Göllheim - A cultural and historical travel guide, Göllheim 1997
  • A. Köllner: History of the rule Kirchheim-Boland and Stauf: edited from JM Kremer's and J. Andreä's manuscripts, reliable documents and other resources, Wiesbaden, 1854

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Note in the death register from 1709 in the Catholic church book of Kirchheimbolanden.