Office of Brückenau

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The office of Brückenau was an office of the Hochstift Fulda , the Principality of Nassau-Oranien-Fulda , France , the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Austria and, most recently, Bavaria. From the 18th century it was also called the Oberamt.

function

In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.

Duration

The office should have included the following localities:

history

Fulda

The office of Brückenau was an office of the monastery and later spiritual principality of Fulda. Due to its (financial) crises since the high Middle Ages , parts of it have been pledged again and again, so in 1443 and 1448 there is talk of a pledge of the County of Hanau with regard to "Brückenau" - without saying whether this refers to the city of Brückenau or that Office related. In 1458 it is reported that the city ​​of Brückenau was a condominium in which Hanau was involved.

Hanau / Mainz condominium

Richard Wille states that the office in Brückenau was a condominium between Hanau and Kurmainz . Presumably based on this source and the map published there, the map sheet "Grafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg according to its political structure at the time of the Thirty Years War" was created , which is in the graphic collection of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt . However, this information is not supported in the literature that explicitly deals with the monastery and principality of Fulda.

After the end of the Fulda bishopric

As part of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Fulda bishopric was dissolved in 1803 and incorporated into the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda. There the office of Brückenau was continued as an office of the first class. By announcement of March 22, 1805, the office of Motten was dissolved and assigned to the Brückenau. In 1806 the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda was occupied by the French and in 1810 it became part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. In the French times, the name of the office was District Fairie Brückenau , the structure did not change (see court organization in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ). In particular, the separation of the judiciary from the administration was not introduced.

According to the final act of the Congress of Vienna on July 9, 1815, the office of Brückenau passed to Austria. However, this transferred the office to the Kingdom of Bavaria on April 14, 1816 as part of an exchange of territory . In 1819 it was converted into the Brückenau district court .

Office building

Office building

The seat of the (senior) bailiff was the Amtshaus, Kirchgasse 6 in Brückenau. The core of the three-storey hipped roof building with a southern stair tower dates from the 16th and 17th centuries. Century. The office building was partially destroyed in the course of the city fire and restored around 1876. The house stands as a monument under monument protection (see list of monuments in Bad Brückenau ). Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 39 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 29.3"  E

(Head) officials

literature

  • Berthold Jäger: The ecclesiastical principality of Fulda in the early modern period: sovereignty, estates and princely administration = writings of the Hessian state office for historical regional studies 39. Marburg 1986.
  • Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years War. Hanau 1886.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau, city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian-Wetterauischen city and former. County. With special consideration of the older time. Increased edition, self-published, Hanau 1919 (Unchanged reprint. Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 ).
  • Fuldaer Land / Rommerz in the 19th century from Heinrich Jakob Stöhr: Concept, scope and organization of the state of Fulda in the 19th century in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter 1934

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jäger, pp. 376, 396.
  2. ↑ According to Wille, Map 1 (Appendix)
  3. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900–1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 209 .
  4. ↑ Zimmermann, p. 68.
  5. ↑ Löwenstein, p. 209, speaks explicitly of the "Amt Brückenau".
  6. ↑ Zimmermann, p. 70.
  7. ↑ Wille, Map 1 (Appendix).
  8. ↑ Published in: Erhard Bus: Good harvests and central location as a curse - The west of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg in the first years of the Great War, 1620-1633 . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein : The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area 2011, ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 45, p. 72f.
  9. ↑ Carl Gottlob Dietmann, Johann Georg Estor: New European State and Travel Geography, 1755, p. 251, digitized
  10. ↑ Des Fürstlichen Hochstift Fulda State and Stand Calendar, 1800, p. 81, digitized
  11. ^ HStAM, Urk. StadtA Fulda, 368