Office Homburg am Main

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The (upper) office of Homburg am Main was an office of the Hochstift Würzburg .

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. The Office Homburg am Main was called Oberamt in the 18th century. This was just a name; it was not associated with a superior position over other offices. It was also a central office , that is, a high court district.

history

Homburg am Main is the oldest property in Würzburg. Burkard is said to have received Homburg as a gift from Pippin . In the 8th century the place became the property of Neustadt am Main Monastery . In the year 800 Würzburg received Bettingen and Wenkheim as a donation. In 993 Würzburg demanded Homburg am Main back. Otto III. met this requirement and Homburg became Würzburg again. As compensation for the formation of the Bamberg diocese , Würzburg received 1017 Trennfeld . In the 11th and 12th centuries, Würzburg prevailed in a number of places of Cent Michelrieth : Würzburg became the owner in Michelrieth , Rettersheim , Wettenburg , Neuenburg Castle and Kreuzwertheim . Except for Homburg and Trennfeld, this property was lost again.

Hohenburg Castle was the core of the Würzburg exercise of power. As part of the territorialization , the Homburg am Main office was created around 1300. 1307 with Cuno de Rebestock the first magistrate in documents posted on the Homburger castle. In 1377 Würzburg pledged the office to the Counts of Wertheim . In 1485 Würzburg redeemed the pledge. The office was then pledged to Wertheim again from 1554 to 1569 and then remained in the possession of Würzburg until the end of the HRR.

In 1504 the Triefenstein monastery transferred the bailiwick over the places Rettersheim , Unterwittbach and Wiebelbach to Würzburg, which assigned these places to the office of Homburg am Main. In 1623 Würzburg returned these places.

In 1686/87, as part of an administrative simplification, the administration of the Remlingen office was transferred to the official of the Homburg am Main office. The Remlingen office still lists the hereditary homage book from 1748, after which it is no longer mentioned separately in the statistics. The same applies to the Neubrunn office and the Reinstein'sche Hofgut.

The statistics of the Hochstift Würzburg from 1699 name 816 subjects in 1 city and 11 villages. The following were deducted from the office as annual income for the Hochstift: Appraisal : 137 Reichstaler, 9 Batzen, excise and ungeld : 617 fl and smoke pound : 710 pounds.

After the transition to Electoral Palatinate Bavaria in 1802, the office was dissolved and the places were mainly assigned to the Homburg district court .

scope

At the end of the HRR , the office included Homburg am Main , Böttigheim , Erlenbach , the market in Heidenfeld , Holzkirchen , Holzkirchhausen , Lengfurt , Neubrunn , Tiefenthal , Trennfeld and Wüstenzell .

cent

The Cent Remlingen was kept in Remlingen. Homburg am Main had its own penny court. The parcels "an der Mahlen" about 800 meters south of the church and "Mahlenweg", which leads there from Homburg, are reminiscent of the neck court.

building

Hohenberg Castle was originally the seat of the bailiff. From 1686 to 1831 Homburg Castle served as the Würzburg Rent Office. In addition, Würzburg had a tithe barn since 1614 (today's address: Burkardusplatz 6). Both buildings are listed as historical monuments.

  • Homberg Castle

  • Tithe barn

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Zimmermann: Courts and execution sites in Hochstiftisch-Würzburg administrative and rural sites, Diss. 1976, p. 137