Office Gerolzhofen

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The (upper) office Gerolzhofen was an office of the Hochstift Würzburg .

history

Würzburg had owned Gerolzhofen since the 8th century. As part of the territorialization , the Gerolzhofen office was created. During the Thirty Years' War the office was under the Swedish or Saxon-Weimar government from 1631 to 1634 (see Duchy of Franconia # Modern Times ). Organizationally, the Hochstift was then divided into 8 main teams . One of them was the main team Gerolzhofen .

In 1619 the Eschterische Vogtei , the property of the noble Echter family in the area, fell back to Würzburg as a settled fief. This was initially administered separately. When the Echter family died out in the male line in 1665, the Eschterische Vogtei was assigned to the Gerolzhofen office in 1667. In 1687 the Zabelstein office was abolished and its districts were assigned to the Gerolzhofen office. Most recently, the Vogtei Hundelshausen was administered together with the Gerolzhofen Office. With that the office had found its final form. In the 18th century the office was also known as the Oberamt.

The statistics of the Hochstift Würzburg from 1699 name 692 subjects in one city and 15 villages. The following were deducted from the office as annual income for the bishopric: Estimate : 155 Reichstaler, excise and ungeld : 681 fl and smoke pound : 730 pounds.

After the transition to Electoral Palatinate Bavaria in 1802, the office was canceled and most of the places were assigned to the Gerolzhofen Regional Court .

At the end of the HRR , the office consisted of the town of Gerolzhofen and the localities Altmannsdorf with Neuhof , Bischwind , Dampfach , Dingolshausen , Donnersdorf , Dürrfeld , Falkenstein , Grettstadt , Hundelshausen , Kleinrheinfeld , Michelau , Neuhausen , Püselsheim , Prüßberg , Vögnitz and Wonau .

The cent court

The limits of Cent Gerolzhofen did not coincide with the Vogteilichen official limits . Some places of the Gerolzhofen office belonged to the Würzburg Cent Donnersdorf . Conversely, Cent Gerolzhofen included a number of places that were assigned to other Würburg offices or other sovereigns. The places belonged to the cent

The Zentgericht was held at the Zentwirt, the "landlord to the sharp corner". The jury's chair, built in 1622, was movable and could be kept "at a print location" when there were no meetings. The place of execution was on the Galgenberg. "Galgenberg", about 1900 meters northwest of the Gerolzhofen parish church between Brünnstadt and Gerolzhofen, indicates this as a field name.

The Vogtei Hundelshausen

Hundelshausen was owned by the Heinach families as a Würzburg fiefdom . With Karl Sigismund von Heinach, the male line died out in 1678 and the property returned to Würzburg as a settled fiefdom. In 1691, the Hundelshausen manor was given to the cathedral provost Barons von Guttenberg as a fief together with the Würzburg part of Bischwind and Vögnitz . In 1721 the bishopric bought back this property for 30,000 guilders and administered it as its own bailiwick of Hundelshausen. The administration was incumbent on the Vogt in the Gerolzhofen office.

A bailiwick building (today's address: Schloßweg 2) was acquired for administration. The elongated two-storey saddle roof building with sandstone walls is probably from the 16th / 17th century. Century was changed in the 19th century. The former bailiwick building was used as a forestry office between 1885 and 1976. It is a listed building as a monument.

Oberamtshaus

Oberamtshaus in Gerolzhofen

The administrative seat was the Oberamtshaus in Gerolzhofen. The eight-axis building (today Brunnengasse 5) is a three-storey saddle roof building with volute gables from 1580. It is a listed building .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Hofmann: New brief description of the earth according to the four parts of the world0: for non-profit use and especially on the most gracious orders of His Hochfürstl. Grace for the use of the schools at the University of Bamberg and Würzburg. Europa, Volume 1, 1773, p. 367, digitized
  2. ^ Gregor Schöpf: Historical-statistical description of the Hochstift Würzburg, 1802, p. 609, digitized
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Zimmermann: Courts and Execution Places in Hochstiftisch-Würzburg County and Landstätten, Diss. 1976, pp. 130-131
  4. ↑ Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia or a complete alphabetical description of all cities, monasteries, castles, villages, flekken, farms, mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, strange areas, etc. in the entire Franconian district, 1800, p. 776, online