Brandenstein Office

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The Brandenstein Office (also: Brandenstein Court ) was a historical office in the County of Hanau-Münzenberg from the Rieneck inheritance.

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.

history

The Brandenstein office originally belonged to the County of Rieneck . Ulrich II von Hanau bought it in 1316 from his uncle, Count Ludwig von Rieneck-Rothenfels, with the consent of the feudal lord , the Bishop of Würzburg .

In 1717 it was pledged from Hanau to the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel for a loan of 100,000 guilders . It has since been administered like part of the Landgraviate. The pledge was used by Count Johann Reinhard III. , the last male member of the Hanau count family, the Hanau-Lichtenberger passive loan of the diocese of Strasbourg and the archbishopric of Mainz for his only daughter, Landgravine Charlotte Christine (* 1700 - † 1731), married to Hereditary Prince Ludwig ( VIII.) Of Hessen-Darmstadt (* 1691; † 1768), and to secure their heirs.

After the death of Count Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, Landgrave Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel inherited the county of Hanau-Munzenberg and with it the Brandenstein office, but immediately ceded the county to his younger brother, Wilhelm VIII , as he himself was King of Sweden and was therefore permanently out of the country . The Brandenstein office was initially administered like a part of the Landgraviate, because due to the special circumstances in the family of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, the County of Hanau-Münzenberg was treated like a secondary school for younger princes for half a century , initially for Wilhelm VIII . and from 1760 for Hereditary Prince Wilhelm (IX.) , and remained independent. Not until 1786, when Landgrave Wilhelm IX. also inherited the Landgraviate, the Brandenstein office was again added to the County of Hanau-Munzenberg, which was now practically a part of Hesse-Kassel, and shared its further territorial fate.

In 1803 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, the Brandenstein office was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807 to 1810, and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, during which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the Brandenstein office was absorbed into the newly formed Schlüchtern district .

Components

The Brandenstein Office consisted of the following locations:

literature

  • Franziska Haase: Ulrich I., Lord of Hanau 1281–1306. Münster 1924, p. 11 (Münster, Universität, typewritten phil. Dissertation of May 27, 1925).
  • Rainer von Hessen (ed.): We Wilhelm by God's grace. The memoirs of Elector Wilhelm I of Hesse. 1743-1821. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-593-35555-8 , p. 252.
  • Uta Löwenstein: County of 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. 196 -230.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Vol. 14, ISSN  0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 60 (Unchanged reprint, ibid 1974, ISBN 3-7708-0510-0 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Löwenstein, p. 208.