Office Eschweiler

The Eschweiler office was one of the 25 offices into which the Duchy of Jülich was divided. It is not known exactly when the country was divided into administrative districts. While the Wilhelmstein office was one of the oldest offices in the duchy, Eschweiler did not come to Jülich-Berg until the 15th century.

On April 4, 1435, Duke Adolf von Jülich-Berg awarded his Hereditary Marshal his "three parts to Eschweiler with the Kohlberg and all its rights and accessories". In 1547 , an Eschweiler office was listed for the first time in the Jülich knight's lists. It bordered on the imperial abbey Kornelimünster and was otherwise surrounded by the office of Wilhelmstein. Like the neighboring office of Aldenhoven, it was directly subordinate to the Oberamt Jülich . The Eschweiler Office was later administered in personal union by the Wilhelmstein Office, where the official responsible for both offices resided.

The Eschweiler office included Alt-Eschweiler , the Eschweiler Castle , Röhe , Röthgen (as Merrödgen) , Bergrath , Velau (as Felau) , Stolberg and the eastern slope of the Propsteier forest . There is a map of the Jülich-Bergischen cartographer Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715 and a map from 1723 in the Codex Welser . The villages of Dürwiß , Hastenrath , Scherpenseel , Nothberg , Hüelte , Weisweiler , Volkenrath and St. Jöris , which are now part of the city of Eschweiler, belonged to the Wilhelmstein office.