Karlstadt Office

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The (upper) office of Karlstadt 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 Karlstadt office was called the 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

Karlstadt had been in Würzburg since Carolingian times. The statistics of the Hochstift Würzburg from 1699 name 2398 subjects in the 1st city, 19 villages and 2 farms. As annual revenues of the high pin out of office were taken away: estimate : 335 Reichstaler, 8¾ chunk, excise and Ungeld : 1829 fl and smoke pounds 1281 pounds.

After the transition to Kurpfalz-Bavaria in 1802, the office was dissolved and the places were mainly assigned to the Karlstadt district court .

scope

At the end of the HRR , the office comprised the following locations: City of Karlstadt and the villages of Duttenbrunn , Erlenbach , Gambach , Hausen , Himmelstadt , Karlburg , Laudenbach , Mühlbach , Retzbach , Rettersbach , Rohrbach and Wiesenfeld .

Cent Karlstadt

The cents included the official locations except Retzbach and Aschfeld , Bonnland , Eußenheim , Schönau , Steinbach , Urspringen , Halsbach , Heßlar , Hofstetten , Massenbuch , Stadelhofen and Stetten .

The center court was held in the open air in front of the upper gate at the center chair. In bad weather, the court was moved to an inn. A separate city court was set up for the city and the places Mühlbach and Gambach, but it was not responsible for maleficent matters. The stick was on the market square, a pillory was attached to the town hall . The location of the gallows is not known.

Cent Retzbach

The Cent Retzbach was not a high court, but only responsible for civil matters. In criminal matters, the court was held in Karlstadt. In 1579 Güntersleben was separated from Cent Arnstein and assigned to Cent Retzbach.

The cents included Retzbach, Zellingen , Oberleinach , Unterleinach , Erlabrunn , Veitshöchheim , Güntersleben , Thüngersheim , Retzstadt , Gäden , Höfe and Oberdürrbach

The court was held behind in good weather and in Retzbach town hall in bad weather.

Official winery

Official winery

The Amtskellerei (today's address: Hauptstraße 42) was originally a residential tower, then the Amtskellerei. It is a three-storey residential tower with a hipped roof and plastered masonry with ogive bi-ore windows on the upper floor with an attached two-storey two-wing building with a hipped roof and an ornamental half-timbered upper floor, as well as a ground floor with sandstone structures and round-arched passage with seating niches. The Romanesque core dates from the 13th century, the half-timbering is designated 1584, the passage designated 1619. The building is a listed building .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Zimmermann: Courts and execution sites in Hochstiftisch-Würzburg administrative and rural sites, Diss. 1976, pp. 140–141
  2. ↑ Erwin Riedenauer: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Franconia Series I Issue 9: Karlstadt, 1963, pp. 70, 81, 85 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Gregor Schöpf: Historical-statistical description of the Hochstift Würzburg, 1802, p. 616, digitized .
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Zimmermann: Courts and Execution Places in Hochstiftisch-Würzburg County and Country Houses, Diss. 1976, p. 158