Office of Cochem

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The office of Cochem was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier that existed from 1294 to 1794 . It was last run as a joint office Cochem-Ulmen with the office Ulmen .

history

The core of the Electorate of Trier in the area was the Reichsburg Cochem . Cochem Castle was pledged to the Archbishop of Trier Bohemond I von Warnesberg in 1294 by King Adolf von Nassau Castle and City of Cochem, together with a surrounding area that included fifty towns . Adolf's successor Albrecht I could not redeem the pledge. This office, connected with the lucrative Moselle toll and the jurisdiction , was confirmed as hereditary by the king in 1298. In 1328 the Archbishop of Trier Baldwin of Luxembourg had to pledge the castle to Countess Loretta von Sponheim , but was able to redeem it a year later.

In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, the office of Cochem is mentioned as one of 59 offices in the Electorate of Trier.

At the end of the HRR , the office consisted of Alflen , Bertrich , Beuren , Clotten , Cochem , Cond , Dohr , Driesch , Ellenz , Enders Mühlen , Ernst , Faid , Fankel , Georgweiler , Gevenich , Gillenbeuren , Greimersburg , Hambuch , Illerich , Kaye, Kayfenheim , Kenfus , Kliding , Landkern , Lech (Hof) , Lutzerath , Mesenich , Nehren , Poltersdorf , Pommeren , Prachtendorf , Priden , Pruttig , Schmitt , Strotzbüsch , Sehl , Urschmitt , Valwig , Wagenhausen , Weiler , Wirfus , Wolmerath and Zeltingen . In addition there was the office of elms and its places.

It had an area of ​​256.77 km² and 8278 inhabitants.

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794. In the French era , the area belonged to the Arrondissement de Coblence .

See also

literature

  • Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old empire: Edition and commentary on the Electoral Trier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, Volume 2, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 227-255.
  • Jacob Marx : History of the Archbishopric Trier . Linz, Trier 1858, p. 249 ff . ( books.google.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. Richard Laufner: The offices organization under Baldwin of Luxembourg; in: Johannes Mötsch , Franz-Josef Heyen (Hrsg.): Balduin von Luxemburg. Archbishop of Trier - Elector of the Empire. Festschrift on the occasion of the 700th year of birth. (= Sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine . Vol. 53). Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz 1985, pp. 289 ff., Digitized
  2. Christoph Ernst: Developing the forest: A field of politics and conflict in Hunsrück and Eifel in the 18th century, Walter de Gruyter, 2014, p. 33 ( Google book preview ).