Office Eppstein
The office Eppstein was in the HRR an office of Hessen-Darmstadt and between 1803 and 1816 an office in Nassau-Usingen or in the Duchy of Nassau .
history
Hesse
The rule Eppstein was in 1492 half of the land county Hessen sold. The places sold formed the Eppstein office. City of Eppstein were the place of administration, the bailiff resided in the castle . As part of the sale, however, half of the town and castle Stolbergisch remained. The condominium (later with Kurmainz ) remained in existence until 1803.
In the course of the Marburg succession dispute , the Hessian area came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1623 . The administration of the Hessian rule Eppstein took place in the Amt Wallau .
The Mainz half of the city of Eppstein belonged to the Oberamt Höchst at the end of the HRR as the Eppstein District Bailiwick (which was also perceived by the Königstein District Bailiwick) .
Nassau
With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, both the Hessian and the Mainz part came to Nassau-Usingen and formed the Eppstein office there.
It consisted of Eppstein, Breckenheim , Delkenheim , Diedenbergen , Igstadt , Langenhain , Lorsbach , Massenheim , Oberliederbach , Unterliederbach , Medenbach , Nordenstadt , Wallau and Wildsachsen , as well as the domain Mechtildshausen .
With a ducal edict of July 16, 1810, the Eppstein office was dissolved and added to the Königstein office on January 1, 1811 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ AJ Weidenbach: Nassau territories from the possessions immediately before the French revolution until 1866; in: Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 10, 1878, p. 286, online