Dauborn Office

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The Dauborn Office was a small Nassau office based in Dauborn .

In the old empire, the Dauborn office included Dauborn , Eufingen , Neue Herberge , Hof Gnadenthal and Hof zu Hausen . The affiliation to the Hof zu Hausen exclave was controversial, see The conflict about the Hof zu Hausen .

The office thus only encompassed the area of ​​today's village of Dauborn. The reason that an office still existed was that this office was the only one in the area that belonged exclusively to Nassau-Orange . The neighboring offices in the east and west were two-handed : the office in Kirberg to the east belonged to Orange and Nassau-Usingen , the office to the west of Camberg belonged to Oranien and Kurtrier . Electoral Trier regions to the north and Nassau-Usinger regions to the south.

This fragmentation also continued in religious affiliation. In contrast to the neighboring offices, Dauborn was Calvinist.

Since the office was so small, it was usually co-administered by an (Orange) bailiff from one of the neighboring bishopric offices. Most recently, Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher was joint bailiff in Camberg, Kirberg and Dauborn.

After the establishment of the Rhine Confederation in 1806, Nassau-Oranien (as Nassau-Dillenburg called itself at that time) had to hand over the Dauborn office to Nassau-Weilburg . Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Usingen merged to form the Duchy of Nassau .

Since the dual power of the neighboring offices was no longer applicable, there was no longer any need for the small-scale offices of the area to exist. The offices were merged. Dauborn first came to the Oberamt Kirberg (based in Camberg ) and with the Ibel's reorganization of the offices in Nassau to the Amt Limburg .

For a short time there was also an Orange interlude: With the State Treaty of July 14, 1814, the former Orange places, including Dauborn, were returned to the re-established Nassau-Orange. The handover that took place in August 1814 was reversed on May 31, 1815. These places fell to Prussia , which passed them on directly to the Duchy of Nassau.

literature

  • Norbert Zabel: Spatial authority organization in the Duchy of Nassau 1806-1866, 1981. ISBN 3-922244-39-4 , p. 38
  • Ulrich Lange: EC Pagenstecher - his family and the end of both offices, 1988, ISBN 3-87460-064-5 , p. 30
  • Nassauische Annalen, 1868, p. 277, online
  • Philipp Anton Sigmund von Bibra, Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk: Journal von und für Deutschland, Volumes 1-7, 1790, p. 470, online
  • Julius Gustav Wagner: All about Dauborn: local history contributions 1924-1941