Office Hückeswagen
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The office of Hückeswagen was a judicial and administrative district in the county of Berg, which had been raised to a duchy .
history
The office was first mentioned in a document dated September 6, 1363.
The office consisted of the freedom (a closed but not fortified town center) Hückeswagen and the parish of the same name with four honnships . Freedom existed legally as a closed location until 1807; it originally emerged from the Berghauser Honnschaft, from which it broke away.
In the above-mentioned document of September 6, 1363 on the occasion of the transfer of the state of Blankenberg to the Duchy of Berg, the Bornefeld office is also mentioned, the Bergish parishes including Hückeswagen are also listed here. The parish of Hückeswagen was listed as a separate office at that time, despite the relatively small territory. A separate Hückeswagen court is also mentioned in the documents in 1363.
In 1555 the offices of Bornefeld and Hückeswagen were administratively combined to form the Bornefeld-Hückeswagen office . In a table for population statistics from 1708, the Hückeswagen office is listed separately from the Bornefeld office, and the Hückeswagen freedom is also listed.
Wilhelm Sebastian Mühlheim is named as electoral judge in the Bornefeld-Hückeswagen office from 1721 to 1754. His official seat was in Hückeswagen Castle . He was followed as judge by his two sons Johann Adam Sebastian Mühlheim, 1732–1774 and Wilhelm Constantin Mühlheim, 1775–1786. This was followed by Franz Joseph Thour, 1786–1793 and Karl Maubach, 1793–1812.
See also
literature
- Nicolaus J. Breidenbach : The court in Wermelskirchen, Hückeswagen and Remscheid from 1639 to 1812. Texts and reports from the court minutes and official files of Bornefeld-Hückeswagen , Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2005, ISBN 3-9802801-5-2 .
- Albrecht Brendler: On the way to the territory. Administrative structure and office holder of the County of Berg 1225–1380 . Inaugural dissertation, Bonn 2015, pp. 211–217.
Individual evidence
- ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rhineland Berg Department , Documents, No. 354; published by Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Archive for the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume 4. Voss, Düsseldorf 1863, pp. 147-158 ( digitized version ).