Hammerstein Office
The Hammerstein office was an administrative and judicial district that existed from 1419 to 1788 and a ducal Nassau office from 1803 to 1815 with its seat in Hammerstein (am Rhein) .
history
Hammerstein Castle was built in the 10th century and formed the origin of the later office. The owners were the burgraves of Hammerstein . Hammerstein remained an imperial castle until Emperor Charles IV transferred the feudal sovereignty over the castle and its accessories as property to the Electorate of Trier in 1374 . After both Hammerstein lines had expired around 1400, the castle and office fell to Kurtrier as a settled fiefdom. In 1419, Elector Otto von Ziegenhain established the Electoral Trier office of Hammerstein.
In the 14th century an organization of offices was established. Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg formed an administrative office based on the French model. At the head of the offices there was now a bailiff . In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, 59 offices are mentioned, including the office of Hammerstein and the office of Arenfels-Hönningen, the center of which was Arenfels Castle and the office of Leutesdorf .
Archbishop Johann VI. (1556–1567) ordered a four-year land tax on November 26, 1556 with the consent of the state estates in Koblenz. The tax amounted to 3.5 guilders per 1000 guilders of wealth. On July 20, 1563, he requested reports from all offices that should provide information about the places and the taxpayers there. For the Hammerstein office, the information is only rudimentary:
| Locality | Subjects | Trier subjects | Other subjects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leutesdorf | 138 | 105 | 33 |
In 1788 the office was merged with the office of Engers . It consisted of Irlich , Leudesdorf , Oberhammerstein , Niederhammerstein , Rheinbrohl , Hönningen with Ahrenfels and Ariendorf (as far as belonging to the parish of Hönningen). The former office of Hammerstein was assigned to Nassau-Weilburg at the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . From 1806 it was an office in the Duchy of Nassau . As part of the agreements of the Congress of Vienna , the office was ceded by the Duchy of Nassau to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815.
literature
- Peter Brommer: Kurtrier's offices. Manorial rule, jurisdiction, taxation and residents. Edition of the so-called fire book from 1563 . Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Trier 2003, ISBN 3-929135-40-X , S., 1857. ( online at dilibri.de)
- AJ Weidenbach: Nassau territories from the acquis immediately before the French Revolution until 1866, 1870, p. 44, digitized
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier , Bischöfliches General-Vikariat Trier, 1887, p. 513 ( dilibri.de )
- ↑ Richard Laufner: The offices organization under Baldwin of Luxembourg; in: Johannes Mötsch , Franz-Josef Heyen (Hrsg.): Balduin von Luxemburg. Archbishop of Trier - Elector of the Empire. Festschrift on the occasion of the 700th year of birth. (= Sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine . Vol. 53). Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz 1985, pp. 289 ff., Digitized
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