Office Brilon

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The Brilon office was an administrative district in the former Duchy of Westphalia , the establishment of which dates back to the 13th century. Around 1600 it got its shape after some border adjustments, which it kept for about 200 years. In 1802 the office of Brilon and the duchy fell to the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. One year after the transition to Prussia, the Brilon office was dissolved in 1817 and became part of the Brilon district .

Limits

The boundaries of the office of Brilon essentially corresponded to the boundaries of the geographic area of ​​the same name. It was the largest administrative district in the Duchy of Westphalia. Around 1800 it bordered in the northwest on the Paderborn monastery, in the east on the Marsberg office and the manors Giershagen and Padberg. The county of Waldeck joined in the southeast, the Medebach office and the Bödefeld court in the south . In the west, the Remblinghausen and Meschede courts and the Eversberg office followed . In the north were the offices of Warstein and Rüthen and the manor Scharfenberg.

history

The establishment of the office goes back to the year 1333. It was first documented this year when it was pledged by the Archbishop of Cologne. The office was based on the possession of the Go judiciary and comprised ten unnamed parishes around 1300. This makes it difficult to precisely determine the original limits. On the northern border, the Alme area gradually broke away from the official association in the 15th century, when its own patrimonial rule was established there, after the Archbishop of Cologne pledged the desert Hofstatt with all its accessories to a nobleman in 1430, initially for 50 years.

Since the late Middle Ages, the Archbishops of Cologne extended the area of ​​Goge jurisdiction to the parish of Velmede in the west and the Assinghauser Grund in the south. Until 1540 there was an own count here who was subordinate to the Brilon count. He was also the gographer of Velmede. By owning the city of Brilon, the Archbishop of Cologne had the decisive power factor in the office of Brilon. The archiepiscopal judge in the city was often gograf in the Gogericht. The city itself did not belong to the office and was exempt from the Gogericht.

In 1497 there was a dividing line between the Gogericht Brilon and the lordship of Padberg.

In the 16th century, the Brilon office consisted of the following tax lists from 1536 and 1565: a) Hoppeke, Bontkirchen, Wülfte, Ober- and Niederalme, Thülen, Nehden, Rösenbeck, Giershagen, Madfeld, the desert areas of Kefflike and Hilbringhausen Beringhausen, Messinghausen, Radlinghausen and Rixen, b) from the so-called Grund Assinghausen with the places Assinghausen, Wiemeringhausen, Bruchhausen, Wulmeringhausen and Brunskappel, c) from the places Altenbüren, Antfeld, Olsberg, Helmeringhausen, Bigge and Elleringhausen, as well as Elpe and Scharfenberg. The Velmede court was still listed as an independent entity.

During the Thirty Years' War, numerous courtyards in the Amt Brilon were destroyed by the effects of the war. While in some places only two farms were uninhabited at the end of the war, some villages had been completely abandoned. A total of around 100 farms were devastated. A list by judge Jakob Kannegießer from 1652 provides information on this. After that, the Brilon office was divided into a) Grund Assinghausen (Assinghausen, Wiemeringhausen, Bruchhausen, Wulmeringhausen and Brunskappel), b) Niederamt Brilon (Hoppeke, Bontkirchen, Wülfte, Ober- and Niederalme, Thülen, Nehden, Rösenbeck, Giershagen, Madfeld and the desert sites of Kefflike, Hilbringhausen and Gudenhagen), c) the parish of Velmede (Velmede, Nuttlar, Ostwig, Berlar, Heringhausen and Gevelinghausen) and d) the places Altenbüren, Antfeld, Olsberg, Helmeringhausen, Bigge and Elleringhausen.

From 1802 to 1816 the office belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. With the restructuring of the offices by the Hessians in 1807, the spatial structure of the office changed. The parishes of Velmede in the west and Madfeld in the east were separated. The patrimonial courts Alme and Scharfenberg were added. In addition, the city of Brilon was now added.

In 1816 the Duchy of Westphalia and with it the office of Brilon fell to Prussia. It was dissolved in 1817 and transferred to the newly founded district of Brilon together with the Marsberg Office, which was also dissolved.

Bailiffs

  • 1451 Henrich van Ense
  • 1807–1817 C. Joseph von Stockhausen.

Electoral judges and counts in Brilon

  • 1560 Gobel Hesse, gographer
  • 1560/1587 Anton Ramme, judge
  • 1603–1642 Mathaeus Höynck, Richter and Gograf
  • 1643/1695 Jakob Kannegießer, electoral judge and geographer
  • 1739 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Freusberg, electoral judge

Remarks

  1. ↑ Hücker p. 117f
  2. ↑ Brökel, p. 75
  3. ↑ Hücker, Official Constitution, pp. 116–118
  4. ↑ Seibertz, Document Book, Vol. 2 No. 642
  5. ↑ Seibertz, Urkundenbuch vol. 1 p. 616
  6. ↑ Seibertz, Document Book, Vol. 3 No. 927
  7. ^ Hömberg, regional organization p. 26
  8. ^ City of Brilon (editor): 750 years of the city of Brilon, Brilon 1970, p. 24
  9. ^ Aders, Günther / Richtering, Helmut: The State Archive of Münster and its holdings, 2 volumes, Münster 1966/1968, No. 5776
  10. ↑ Reinhard Oberschelp (editor): The treasury registers of the 16th century for the Duchy of Westphalia, Part 1: The registers from 1536 and 1565, Münster 1971, pp. 110–129, 135–139
  11. ^ Alfred Bruns: City and Gogericht Brilon in the Thirty Years War, in: Michael Senger (editor): Thirty Years War in the Duchy of Westphalia, Balve 1998, p. 98
  12. ↑ Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802-1816, Olpe 1966, p. 171
  13. ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Communal coats of arms of the Duchy of Westphalia. Kurkölnisches Sauerland, Arnsberg 1986, p. 139.
  14. ^ City of Brilon (publisher): 750 years of the city of Brilon 1220-1970, Brilon 1970, p. 40
  15. ↑ Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802-1816, Olpe 1966, p. 171.
  16. ^ Aders, Günther / Richtering, Helmut: The State Archive of Münster and its holdings, 2 volumes, Münster 1966/1968, No. 5781
  17. ^ Aders, Günther / Richtering, Helmut: The State Archive of Münster and its holdings, 2 volumes, Münster 1966/1968, No. 5778, 5783, 5789-5791
  18. ^ Franz Honselmann: Sauerländisches Familien-Archiv, unchanged reprint, Paderborn 1983, p. 22
  19. ↑ Brökel p. 79
  20. ^ Gerhard Brökel: The trade dynasties Kannegießer and weed in Brilon. An overview of family history, in: Stefan Baumeier / Katharina Schlimmgen-Ehmke (editor): Golden times. Sauerland economic citizens from the 17th to the 19th century, Essen 2001, p. 97

literature

  • Albert Hömberg: Ecclesiastical and secular state organization (parish system and court system) in the original parish areas of southern Westphalia , Münster 1967.
  • Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802 - 1816 , Olpe 1966.
  • Johann Suitbert Seibertz: Document book on the regional and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia , 3 volumes, Arnsberg 1839–1854.