Office Hassfurt

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The Haßfurt Office (also Hassfurt Office ) was an office of the Würzburg bishopric .

history

Haßfurt was first mentioned in writing in 1230 when the Würzburg prince-bishop Hermann I von Lobdeburg wanted to secure his area to the east against the Bamberg prince-bishop Siegfried II von Eppstein . The place was fortified, elevated to the status of a city and Würzburg concentrated here the administration of its rights in the region, including the central court . With the establishment of the Kreuztal Monastery in Marburghausen , the establishment of Unterhohenried in 1250, the acquisition of a Hube in Sylbach from the Theres Monastery and the acquisition of Prappach in 1290, the property around Haßfurt rounded off. As part of the territorialization , the Haßfurt office was created.

The Hassfurt office was pledged several times. In 1340 Würzburg pledged the central justice to the Ebrach monastery , in 1365 the office was pledged to Gerlach von Hohenlohe. These pledges also meant that the city of Haßfurt was able to expand its rights at the expense of the state rulers. The city court was established in 1368.

An official directory was created under Rudolf II von Scherenberg . The Haßfurt office then consisted of the city of Haßfurt and the places Krum, Wülflingen , Obereuerheim , Untereuerheim , Untertheres , Hainert , Sechsthal , Prappach, Augsfeld, Gädheim and Humprechtshausen. However, many places were permeated by third party rights. In the period that followed, Würzburg acquired further rights and inclines. Around 1600 the office consisted of the town of Haßfurt and the towns of Altershausen, Augsfeld, Gädheim, Holzhausen, Humprechtshausen, Kleinmünster, Kleinsteinach, Knetzgau, Krum, Mechenried, Oberschwappach , Ottendorf, Prappach, Römershofen, Sechsthal, Sylbach and Westheim.

The Zeil office lay like a wedge between the Würzburg offices of Haßfurt and Eltmann . Correspondingly, there were conflicts between the two monasteries over various rights, which were resolved in several contracts. The contract to Zeil from August 31st / 7th September 1587 regulated z. B. the cent border between the Cent Zeil and Cent Haßfurt. In a series of subsequent contracts, Würzburg was able to secure former Bamberg property for the Haßfurt office. Essential rights were also acquired from Saxony.

During the Thirty Years' War the office was under the Swedish or Saxon-Weimar government from 1631 to 1634. Organizationally, the Hochstift was divided into main teams. The Hauptmannschaft Mainberg consisted of the offices of Mainberg , Haßfurt, Ebenhausen and Werneck , the Vogtei Bodenlauben and the Office of Theres .

The statistics of the Hochstift Würzburg from 1699 name 741 subjects in a city and 21 villages (of which only 4 were Würzburg, the others were Ganerbian). The following were deducted from the office as annual income for the bishopric: Estimate : 105 Reichstaler, excise and ungeld : 609 fl and smoke pound : 764 pounds.

The consolidation of the official area through the acquisition of mostly knightly rights and favors continued in the middle of the 18th century. In 1731 the town of Haßfurt and the towns of Altershausen , Augsfeld , Göttheim , Holzhausen , Humprechtshausen , Kleinmünster , Kleinsteinach , Knetzgau , Krum , Mechenried , Oberhohenried , Oberschwappach , Ottendorf , Prappach , Remershofen , Sylbach , Uchenhofen , Unterhohenried , Westheim and Wülflingen belonged to the office. The official area then remained constant until the end of the HRR .

The main court

Würzburg had the Hassfurt district court. This included the official places. At the end of the 16th century, the high jurisdiction of the Theres office passed to the Haßfurter Zent. In 1666 the Barons von Beek agreed that the Haßfurt district court should also be responsible for Wonfurt . In 1698 Würzburg acquired half of the Centers in Unterhohenried and Mechenried from Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

The Zentgericht was initially held on the Centplatz. This was between Dr. Albert House, Upper Mill and Evangelical Church. The market place was used later. In accordance with a privilege granted by Prince-Bishop Johann von Brunn in 1432, the city itself had its own high court for all penalties except physical and death sentences. This court met every Tuesday in the town hall. The pillory was on the barred madhouse at the upper gate. The place of execution was originally on the "Radstatt", which cannot be located. Later the gallows was in the "Galgen" hallway. The field names indicate "Galgenfeld", about 1200 meters east of the market square and "Galgenanger" about 1000 meters east of the market square.

resolution

After the transition to Palatinate-Bavaria in 1802, the office was dissolved and the places were subordinated to the newly established Haßfurt district court .

Personalities

Bailiffs

  • Lunz Fuchs of Haßfurt (1368)
  • Wilhelm von Bibra (1503, 1511, 1513) (son of Wilhelm von Bibra )
  • Hans von Giech (1516)
  • Heinz Truchseß (1517)
  • Philipp Truchseß (1522)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Zimmermann: Courts and Execution Places in Hochstiftisch-Würzburg County and Landstätten, Diss. 1976, pp. 131–132