Office Kaub
The Amt Kaub (also Amt Caub ) was an electoral Palatinate , Nassau-usinger and ducal Nassau office with its seat in Kaub .
Kaub had been the seat of the Electoral Palatinate since the 15th century , which in addition to Kaub also included the villages of Weisel , Dörscheid and Sauerthal and the Fromborn farm. During the Electoral Palatinate period, the office was subordinate to the Oberamt on the left bank of the Rhine in Bacharach .
After the Peace of Lunéville , the Kaub office came to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen . The office was part of the compensation that Nassau claimed for its losses on the left bank of the Rhine. On December 2, 1802, the official act of homage was carried out in Kaub. The seizure of ownership was subsequently legitimized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803. The house of Nassau-Usingen was raised to the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 .
The organizational edict of 1816 left the Kaub office in its function as a "preliminary office". 1816 Peter Grüsing, the previously official assessor was in Koenigstein had been the bailiff appointed. In the same year he moved to Rüdesheim and Friedrich Ferdinand von Saint-George as a bailiff, previously a prescription officer in Bleidenstadt. However, the "provisional office" was not retained in 1818 and the official area was added to the St. Goarshausen office . Friedrich Ferdinand von Saint-George was then bailiff in Runkel .
The decision to move the official seat of the new, larger office to St. Goarshausen instead of Kaub was due to geography. Kaub was larger and more important than St. Goarshausen, but it was too close to Rüdesheim (the seat of the Rüdesheim office ) and too far from Braubach (the seat of the Braubach office ). A key consideration of Ibell's administrative reform was that the places of office should be so central that every resident of the office could reach the office in half a day's journey. This was not possible with Kaub.
literature
- Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945, 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , p. 146
- Norbert Zabel: Spatial authority organization in the Duchy of Nassau (1806-1866), 1981, ISBN 978-3-922244-39-4 , p. 79 ff.