Freudenberg Office (Hochstift Würzburg)

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The Freudenberg office was an office of the Counts of Wertheim and the Würzburg Monastery .

function

In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.

history

In 1295 the Counts of Wertheim received Freudenberg as a fief . Together with neighboring properties, this resulted in the Freudenberg Office of Wertheim as part of the territorialization . In 1556, due to the death of Count Michael III von Wertheim, the office returned to the Würzburg Monastery as a settled fiefdom.

The statistics of the Hochstift Würzburg from 1699 name 264 subjects in the 1st city, 2 villages and 2 farms. The following were deducted from the office as annual income of the bishopric: Estimate : 50 Reichstaler, excise and ungeld : 250 fl and smoke pound : 254 pound.

The office consisted of the city of Freudenberg, the two villages Boxtal and Ebenheid and the farms of Kirchfurt and Laukenhof. The Centgericht included Freudenberg, Kirchfurt and Laukenhof. Bochsthal and Ebenheit belonged to the Kurmainzischen Cent Miltenberg .

According to the provisions of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the office in 1803 fell to Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg . In 1806 the office came to Baden and was merged with the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg office .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ § 14 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss