Office of Joßgrund

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The office of Joßgrund was an office in the Electorate of Mainz .

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.

history

The area of ​​the later office of Joßgrund had been property of the Fulda monastery since the middle of the 9th century . From 1176 to 1357 the lords of Jossa (Jasza), a sideline of the lords of Steckelberg, were fiefs of this property.

Around 1326 shares were owned by the County of Isenburg , and in 1344 the von Hutten gentlemen acquired the Isenburg shares.

In 1357 the Lords of Hanau bought the Fulda fiefs. At the end of the 14th century, the then Hanau regent, Ulrich V , found himself in a massive - also financial - crisis that led to the pledging of parts of the Hanau rule. He pledged his shares in the Joßgrund office or sold it to the von Thüngen men . In 1431 the Joßgrund was transferred from the Lords of Thüngen to the Lords of Hutten .

In 1540 the Lords of Hutten sold their shares in the castle and court to the Electorate of Mainz, which assigned the office to its upper archbishopric . Kurmainz set up an administrative bailiff in Burgjoss , which was subordinate to the Oberamt Hausen , and from 1633 to the Oberamt Orb and Lohr . As a result, there was a long-running legal dispute between Kurmainz and the Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg over sovereignty, the use of the forest and the drawing of borders, which was continued even after the secularization of the electoral state in 1803 under the legal successors of the originally controversial.

With the secularization of the Electorate of Mainz in 1803, the Burgjoss office first came to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt and in 1814 to the Kingdom of Bavaria through the Congress of Vienna . After the lost war of 1866 , the Kingdom of Prussia annexed the area and added it to the Gelnhausen district .

Components

The office of Joßgrund consisted of the villages

literature

  • Otto Appel: The political activity of Ulrich III. Lord of Hanau 1346-1370. A contribution to the history of the Lords and Counts of Hanau = HGBll 5. Hanau 1922.
  • Johann Rützel (Ed.): Chronicle reading book Jossgrund . Jossgrund-Oberndorf 1989.
  • Klaus Peter Decker: Clientele and competition. The knightly von Hutten family and the Counts of Hanau and von Ysenburg . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 38 (1988), pp. 23–48 (41ff).
  • Christian Friedrich Ihm: Notarized representation and legal execution of the most noble Kurhaus Hessen, due to the County of Hanau, which has now been elevated to a principality, to the sovereignty and ownership of the Joßgrund, which was previously usurped by the extinct Elector of Mainz, but recently joined the newly established Principality of Aschaffenburg and the associated four villages, Burgjoss, Oberndorff, Pfaffenhausen and Mernolfs . Hanau 1803.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Marburg 1926, p. 263.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reimer, Heinrich: Document book on the history of the gentlemen of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Volume 2 (1301-1349). 1892, Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ HStAM inventory document 100 No. 5539 - Sale of the Burgjo court ... - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Marburg State Archives , Kopiar 410: Document from 1404: Hilprant von Thüngen has the Hanau part of the Joßgrund as pledge (?).
  4. ^ State Archives Marburg, Kopiar 410.
  5. ↑ See . Christian Friedrich Ihm: Notarized representation ... '