Office Homburg
The Office Homburg was an office with changing territorial affiliations, at times an independent secondary school of the Landgraviate of Hesse and from 1622 main part of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg .
function
In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.
geography
The area of the office lay on the slopes of the eastern edge of the Taunus towards the Wetterau . It consisted of the town of Homburg vor der Höhe and the villages of Seulberg , Köppern , Gonzenheim and Oberstedten .
history
The Homburg office was formed as an administrative unit in the Eppstein rule . In 1486 Gottfried X. von Eppstein sold the castle and the Homburg office for 19,000 guilders to Count Philipp I von Hanau-Münzenberg . In 1504 Hanau lost the office as a result of the Landshut War of Succession , in which it was on the loser's side, to the Landgraviate of Hesse . After the actual occupation by Hesse, Hanau renounced the office with a contract of 1521 in return for a severance payment.
From 1528 to 1539 Philip the Magnanimous pledged the office to Hanau-Münzenberg. From 1539 to 1559 the office was pledged to Stolberg-Königstein-Werningerode . From July 12, 1589 to September 18, 1568 the office was pledged to Friedrich von Reiffenberg (1515–1595).
With the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse after the death of Landgrave Philip I , Homburg fell to Landgraviate Hesse-Darmstadt in 1567 . 1622, the reigning Landgrave took advantage of Louis V. the Office Homburg to his brother, Landgrave Frederick I to of Hesse-Homburg thus apanagieren . The extent to which only a mortgage owed to secure the part of Louis V., was at Frederick I to be paid maintenance or whether a transfer of sovereignty meant long remained controversial between the two lines. Ultimately, however, the Homburg office became the state- owned Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg, a territory that lasted until 1866. In 1816 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg received the Oberamt Meisenheim , making the Office Homburg one of two offices in the Landgraviate. After the death of the last Landgrave of Hessen-Homburg that year, the Landgraviate fell back to the Grand Duchy of Hessen- Darmstadt, but had to be ceded to Prussia in the same year as a result of the Austro-Prussian War . Together with the office of Königstein and the office of Usingen , the office of Homburg was merged in 1867 to form the Obertaunuskreis .
After the dissolution of the Landtag of Hesse-Homburg in 1853, a district council existed to represent the Homburg office .
Bailiffs
During the Eppstein rule until 1487 no Homburg officials were appointed, but the office was co-administered from Eppstein . Under Hanau-Münzenberg , officials were used for the Homburg office. In a document dated August 28, 1490, the Homburg bailiff Johann Fryen von Dern is named. With the transition to the Landgraviate of Hesse, the bailiff of the Eppstein office was again bailiff for Homburg. In the time of Philip the Magnanimous Helwig von Lauerbach became bailiff for Eppstein, Kronberg and Homburg. During the pledge to Hanau-Münzenberg, these appointed Friedrich von Dorfelden as bailiff. From 1589 to 1568 Friedrich von Reiffenberg was both pledgee and bailiff in Homburg. After the pledge was redeemed, the office was again administered from Eppstein. In 1585, Hans Koch was bailiff.
From 1764 to 1765 Johann Christoph Pistor was a bailiff in Homburg.
At the end of the Landgrave's time, the title of chief official in the office was that of district administrator. The last district administrator in the Homburg office was Eugen Schaffner (1822–1908).
literature
- Margarete Hinterreicher: Georg Christian von Hessen-Homburg (1626–1677). Officer, diplomat and regent in the decades after the Thirty Years War. In: Sources and research on Hessian history. 58. Darmstadt 1985, p. 6.
- Friedrich Lotz: History of the city of Bad Homburg before the height. 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Frankfurt 1977, p. 88 ff.
- Friedrich Lotz, Heinz Grosche: History of the city of Bad Homburg before the height: Die Kaiserzeit , 1964, ISBN 9783782903349 , p. 36.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Otto: Reiffenberg, Ritter Friedrich v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 687-690.
- ^ Pistor, Johann Christoph in the Hessian biography