Office of Boppard
The Boppard office was a Kurtriersches office with its seat in the city of Boppard and included both left and right bank areas on the Middle Rhine .
Together with the offices of Oberwesel, Wellmich and the Gallscheider court, it again formed the Oberamt Boppard .
The official administration had its seat in the electoral castle in Boppard and was led by the bailiff.
history
When King Heinrich VII pledged it to his brother, Archbishop Balduin von Trier , on August 12, 1312 , the imperial city of Boppard , which had been free until then, became part of the Electorate of Trier and formed the Boppard office with the surrounding villages. It lasted until France conquered the Left Bank of the Rhine in 1794 in the first coalition war and later annexed it . The left bank of the former Boppard office now belonged to the canton of Boppard or, after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, to the Prussian mayor's office of Boppard . The parts on the right bank of the Rhine (the parishes of Camp and Niederkestert) came to Nassau-Weilburg as part of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 .
Associated places
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 Boppard office there were the following population figures in the following places:
| Locality | Trier subjects |
|---|---|
| City of Boppard | 355 |
| Kamp and Kamperhausen | 66 |
| Kestert | 40 |
| Brey | 39 |
| Niederspay | 19th |
| Oberspay | 39 |
| Pedernach | 23 |
| Salty | 43 |
| hamlet | 27 |
| Filsen | 16 |
| Lykershausen | 6th |
| Ehrenthal | 2 |
At the end of the HRR, in addition to the city of Boppard, the localities Brey , Niederspay , Oberspay, Salzig, Weiler, Kamp , Bornhofen, Ehrenthal , Filsen , Niederkestert , Oberkestert and Lykershausen belonged to the office .
The office thus covered around 195 km² and had a total of 5329 inhabitants in 1789, of which around 2500 were in the city of Boppard. While the citizens of the city were exempt from military service, this was not the case for the residents of the associated villages.
description
The administrator and the waiter , who was entrusted with the economic administration of the office , were subordinate to the bailiff . There was also an office physician and an office surgeon. The jurisdiction of the office was in competition with the city court in Boppard, that is, the citizens of the city had the choice before which of the two courts their affairs were to be negotiated. The Rhine toll and the corresponding customs administration was solely entitled to Kurtrier. The city council of Boppard, however, was in charge of the police, the building trade and the guilds.
Bailiffs
- Heinrich Beyer von Boppard (1342)
- Johann von Buch (1348)
- Lamprecht of Schönburg (1355)
- Johann Boos of Waldeck (1360)
- Konrad Kolb von Boppard (1385)
- Johann Herr zu Schöneck (1435)
- Kuno of Schöneck (1462)
- Wilhelm von Schwalbach (1479)
- Heinrich of Nassau (1497)
- Johann von Sneds von Grenzau (1499)
- Heinrich of Pirmont (1503)
- Dietrich of Steyern (1504)
- Caspar von Berlepsch (1506)
- Christoph Eschenfelder von Gerau (1513)
- Thereafter, the office was hereditary in the von Nassau family. These were also officials in the Welmich office.
- Franz Ludwig von Eltz (1760)
- Franz Eugen Freiherr von und zu Westerholdt (1768)
Westerholdt was the last Kurier bailiff.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Boppard VVV booklet No. 22: The description of the Electoral Trier office of Boppard (1789/1790) - edition and explanation , author: Michael Koelges, Boppard 2015
- ↑ Boppard the Roman Bontobrica, Bandobriga or Bodobriga. , Yearbooks of the Society of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland, Booklet L and LI. Bonn 1871. page 68, archive.org
- ↑ AJ Weidenbach: Nassau territories from the acquisitions immediately before the French Revolution until 1866, 1870, p. 41, digitized
- ^ Peter Brommer: The offices of Kurtrier. Manorial rule, jurisdiction, taxation and residents. Edition of the so-called fire book from 1563 . Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Trier 2003, ISBN 3-929135-40-X , p. 19 ff. ( Online at dilibri.de)
- ↑ Johann Josef Klein: History of Boppard, 1909, pp. 95 ff., Digitized .
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