Hillesheim Office (Kurtrier)

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The Hillesheim Office was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier with its seat in Hillesheim, which existed from the 14th century to 1794 .

history

In 1352, Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg acquired Hillesheim as a pledge. In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, 59 offices, including the Hillesheim office, are mentioned.

After the male line of the Manderscheid-Blankenheim family died out in 1780, the villages of Roderath , Bouderath , Vussem and Bergheim fell back to Kurtrier as settled fiefdoms and were assigned to the Hillesheim office. Before that, the office consisted of the town of Hillesheim, Berendorf and Bolsdorf .

In the First Coalition War , the Left Bank of the Rhine was occupied by the French in 1794 and later annexed. According to the French administrative organization, an arrondissement de Prüm has now been set up in the Département de la Sarre , to which the official places have been assigned.

literature

  • Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old empire: Edition and commentary on the Electoral Trier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, Volume 2, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 351–354.

Individual evidence

  1. 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