Worbis office building

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The former office building or rent office in Worbis

The former office building , also called Rentamt , and the current Worbis Town Hall is a historic building in Worbis , a district of Leinefelde-Worbis in the Eichsfeld district of Thuringia .

location

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The building complex is located on the northwestern edge of the historic city center of Worbis on the corner of the street between Amtsstrasse and Obertor. The open space of the former inner courtyard is directly adjacent to the neighboring Rossmarkt.

history

Worbis Castle

As the first fortified complex, Worbis Castle was probably built in the 12th century by the Lords of Worbis. In 1209, Giselher von Worbis, a nobleman, was mentioned as a witness of a pledge to the Reifenstein monastery. Members of the noble family von Worbis were the first known lords of the castle to name themselves after the place. Feudal lords were the Counts of Lohra , the Counts of Beichlingen (1234) and then the Wettins as Thuringian Landgraves (1289-1336). The castle is mentioned in writing in 1289 in connection with the partial sale to the Landgraves of Thuringia. The castle was a moated castle that was directly adjacent to the city. The flood ditch or Ritterbach is located just north of the castle grounds, from which sufficient water was available for the castle moat. The extent to which the castle complex was connected to the city wall, which was built in the 13th century, is not exactly known; it was probably located outside the early city complex and was only included in the fortifications when the city was expanded.

According to a contract of 1350 between the Landgrave and the Elector of Mainz, rule over Worbis is exercised jointly. Between 1375 and 1381 there were disputes over the occupation of the archbishop in Mainz. In armed conflicts that were particularly fought in Thuringia and Eichsfeld , citizens of Duderstadt and Heiligenstadt as well as Mainz feudal people took the Landgrave Thuringian castles and castle Worbis and handed them over to Adolf von Nassau .

After the castle and the city came into the possession of the Mainz electors around 1381, the castle district became the Electoral Mainz court or Worbis office . In addition to Worbis, the neighboring Breitenbach , the deserts of Ritterbach and Sifferterode also belonged to the district . Elector Adolf von Nassau pledged the office together with the neighboring office of Harburg for almost 200 years to the von Bültzingslöwen in 1381 ; this pledge was only redeemed by the elector in 1575. The castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525, finally demolished in 1575 and rebuilt as the current administrative building on the foundations of the old castle.

The following lords and feudal people could be identified at Worbis Castle:

  • Lords of Worbis
  • 1292, 1299 Conrad von Sollstedt (advocati in Worbis)
  • 1302 Friedrich (von Orschel), Vogt zu Worbis and 1311
  • 1311 Eckard Wolf (Burgmann)
  • 1319 Conrad von Worbis
  • 1336 Hermann and Gottfried von Uslar
  • 1350 Ludolf and Otto von Ebeleylin and Appel von Sebeche (for the landgrave's share in the city and court of Worbis and the Harburg)
  • around 1351 Bertold von Worbis and Johann von Wintzingerode (for the Mainz portion)
  • before 1389 Kurt and Friedrich von Byle (for the landgrave's share)
  • 1381–1574 Lords of Bültzingsleben (as Kurmainzische feudal takers)

Amtshaus / Rentamt

Partial view of the patrimonial court building of the Bültzing lions in the 16th century
The north wing in the half-timbered style of the Renaissance and round arched gate

After the moated castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War, the lords of Bültzingslöwen probably repaired the castle again, of which parts of the west wing have been preserved. They also used building materials from the destroyed Harburg. Under the Mainz electors, the castle area was rebuilt as an official building from 1574 and was then the seat of the Kurmainzer magistrates. A three-wing complex was created with a moat and a drawbridge as access from the east. The north wing was built in the half-timbered construction of the late Renaissance. As the “Old Court”, it housed the courtroom, dungeon and torture chamber. The bailiff also lived in the building. The south wing was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century and the trenches were gradually filled in. The archway dates from 1733. The name Rentamt came about because the feudal taxes or pensions were to be paid there.

After the Eichsfeld was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia, the district court for the city and the later district of Worbis was set up here. To the east, adjacent to the rent office, there was still a farm yard belonging to the district. This became the Royal Prussian Domain Office. After the old town hall next to the town church burned down in 1864, the office building became the town hall of Worbis.

Kurmainzer Amt Harburg-Worbis

The Harburg-Worbis office in 1759
The former office and rent office was built on the remains of the Worbis moated castle

At the time of the Counts of Beichlingen, the judicial district included not only the city, but probably the area east to near Lohra Castle . With the change of ownership in the 13th / 14th In the 19th century, the judicial district was severely limited. For Office Worbis included only the neighboring Breitenbach and the deserted villages Ritterbach and Sifferterode. After Harburg Castle was destroyed, the neighboring Harburg and Worbis offices were combined to form the Harburg-Worbis office in 1574 , and the seat of the joint office was moved to Worbis. The authority consisted mainly of the following people: the magistrate, the magistrate, the actuary, the clerk and the official officer. To the southeast of Worbis there is still the Galgenberg, probably the place of execution of the district. The executioner of Worbis lived in front of the lower gate. The following bailiffs are proven:

  • 1574–1605 Johannes Stauffenbühl
  • 1605–1611 Johannes Camerarius
  • 1611–1640 Christoph Bucher
  • 1640–1643 Hunold Starke
  • 1643–1651 Johannes Hirstell
  • 1655–1675 Berhard Koehler
  • 1675–1677 Georg Wilhelm von Zwehl
  • 1679–1690 Hermann Berhard Möring
  • 1690–1715 Heinrich Adam Streit
  • 1715–1757 Johann Joachim Wagner
  • 1757–1776 Josef Anton Wagner
  • 1776–1780 Johann Georg Fiedler
  • 1781–1799 Friedrich Gottfried Gerhardi
  • 1800–1802 Johann Georg Jagemann

Current condition

The present two-wing complex has been extensively restored and the old moat has been partially restored. Gothic remains can still be found in the northwest wing of the office building. Here are now some administrative authorities and the registry office of the city of Leinefelde-Worbis in the building.

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Worbis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Amt Harburg-Worbis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Thomas T. Müller (Ed.): Wurbeke, Worweze, Stadtworbis: Contributions to the history of the city of Worbis. Publishing house and printing by Mecke Duderstadt 2005 with amounts of:
    • Heinrich Rademacher: Wasserburg - Rentamt Rathaus: new knowledge on the history of the Kurmäinzer Amtshaus. Pp. 289-302
    • Josef Rogge: Wall, tower and moat: the fortification of the city of Worbis. Pp. 387-393
  • Johannes Müller: The administration of justice in the Electoral Mainz office of Harburg-Worbis: a cultural image from the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Our Eichsfeld. 8th year 1913, pp. 65-83
  • Wolfgang Trappe: City history. In: House & Museum Gülden Creutz Worbis. Druck und Verlag Mecke Duderstadt 1992, pp. 13-23

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Amtshaus Worbis in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ according to the information board at the Worbis rent office
  3. ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, pp. 25, 70
  4. ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. Göttingen (O. Hendel) 1903, pages 468-472
  5. ^ Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldisches Urkundenbuch together with the treatise of the Eichsfeldischen nobility. Göttingen 1819 ( Treatise on the Eichsfeld nobility, as a contribution to its history. Pp. 37–45)
  6. ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. Göttingen (O. Hendel) 1903, pages 468-472
  7. ↑ RIplus Regg. EB Mainz 1,1 n.768 , in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: regesta-imperii.de (accessed on August 22, 2017)
  8. ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 468ff.
  9. ↑ Bernhard Sacrifice man : shaping the calibration field. St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig and Verlag FW Cordier, Heiligenstadt 1968.

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 23.8 "  N , 10 ° 21 ′ 33.6"  E