Koenigsberg Office (Hesse)

The Koenigsberg Office was an office in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , later the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The seat of the office was Königsberg Castle in Königsberg , which today belongs to the municipality of Biebertal in the district of Gießen . It was in the area of ​​the Dünsberg .

history

Königsberg was originally a Solms property and ancestral seat of the Solms-Königsberg line . In 1350 Count Philipp zu Solms sold part of the office to the Landgraviate of Hesse . With the division of Hesse in 1567, the Hessian part of the office initially fell to Hesse-Marburg and, when this line died out in 1604, to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt .

In 1629, Hessen-Darmstadt acquired the rest of the office as a result of a partition agreement with Hohensolms. Some places left the area of ​​the office and came under the sole rule of the Counts of Solms. Between 1604 and 1648 there were disputes and armed conflict between Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kassel over the Hessian part of the office . (See Hessenkrieg .) Only the contracts of 1627 and 1648 between the two parties ended these disputes and finally awarded the office to Hessen-Darmstadt.

In 1821 the offices were dissolved and district councils were established. The Königsberg office was divided between the Gladenbach district and the Gießen district.

scope

With the division of 1629 the following places left the office and were now the sole property of the Counts of Solms: Ahrdt , Altenstädten , Bermoll , Blasbach , Oberlemp , Erda and Mudersbach . The following places belonged to the now purely Hessian office of Königsberg: Bischoffen , Frankenbach , Hermannstein , Königsberg , Naunheim , Niederweidbach , Oberweidbach , Roßbach , Waldgirmes and Wilsbach .

Web links

• Koenigsberg, district of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Friedrich Uhlhorn, Fred Schwend: Description of the following cards. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). [PDF; 2.13 MB]
  • Hesse 1247-1567. Historical atlas of Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  • Hesse-Marburg 1567-1604. Historical atlas of Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  • Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604-1638. Historical atlas of Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  • Hesse-Darmstadt 1567-1866. Historical atlas of Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching: New Earth Description Volume 1, Part 3, 5th Edition 1771, p. 1261, ( Online at Google Books )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 points 1 and 6b ( online at google books ).
3. ↑ Grand-Ducal Ordinance “Regarding the division of the country into district councils and district courts” of July 14, 1821; in: Hess. Reg.Bl. 1821, p. 409