Office Kransberg

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The office Kransberg (also office Cransberg ) was an Eppsteiner , then Kurmainzer , then Bassenheimer and finally Nassau office in the area of ​​today's Hochtaunuskreis ( Hesse ). The official seat was Kransberg , it existed until 1814.

history

In 1455 an office Cransberg was first mentioned in a document . In 1455 a Henn von Praunheim was given as the fief of the office, in 1470 a Johann von Merenberg called Rübsamen. The office then passed into the possession of the Counts of Eppstein- Königstein in 1522.

With the extinction of the Counts of Stolberg in 1535 (Eberhard IV von Königstein) in 1581, the office became Electoral Mainz. In 1654 the office became the property of Bassenheim. In 1781 the office of Cransberg is combined with the office of Reifenberg, also in Bassenheim, in one hand.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (1803) the Bassenheim offices of Reifenberg and Kransberg fall to Nassau-Usingen and subsequently to the Duchy of Nassau (1806). With the reform of the offices in Nassau on July 16, 1810, the Wehrheim office was combined with the Kransberg office (without Reifenberg, which was assigned to the Usingen office) in a new Cleeberg office . In March 1814, this office then became part of the Usingen office.

Duke of Nassau Counts Waldbott-Bassenheim Office

While the Kransberg office had ceased to exist when it was incorporated into the Usingen office, the Counts of Waldbott-Bassenheim still had some professional privileges after the mediatization . In addition, the counts were the largest landowners in the former Kransberg office. Organizationally, these rights were administered in the Duke of Nassau Counts Waldbott-Bassenheim Office . Spatially, this office comprised the former lords of Reifenberg and Kransberg, i.e. Cransberg, Pfaffenwiesbach, Wernborn, Reifenberg, Seelenberg, Schmitten and Arnoldshain.

The regulations with regard to the Waldbott-Bassenheim remaining rights were in a ducal-Nassau organizational edict of 11/19 June 1807 regulated. Waldbott-Bassenheim retained the church patronage of the Catholic churches (restricted by an obligation to present to the duke). The school teachers were appointed in the same way by the count after presentation. The count retained the law of lower and middle jurisdiction, including forest jurisdiction. Furthermore, the count's rights from tithes and comparable taxes remained. In addition, the count was the largest landowner in office.

In an effort to achieve further standardization in the Duchy of Nassau, the Nassau government submitted an offer to the Count by letter of September 11, 1823, which he accepted by letter of July 2, 1824. As a result, all rights in the case law were transferred to the ducal courts. However, the courts should continue to speak law in the name of the Duke of Nassau Counts Waldbott-Bassenheim. The count kept the patronage rights, the hunting license and the tithes and other real burdens. In return for his waiver, the count received an annual compensation pension.

During the March Revolution in 1848 , the privileges of the class were revoked and Count Hugo Waldbott von Bassenheim only left the civil law income from his property. The Waldbott-Bassenheim office ended with that. However, in the Reaction Era , these changes were reversed.

With contracts dated October 23, 1852 and February 1, 1853, Count von Bassenheim sold the lords of Kransberg and Reifenberg to the landowner JF Umber. In the opinion of the Nassau government, with this sale, the privileges under civil status were finally lost. In the following years, the Nassau domain treasury acquired the former Waldbott-Bassenheimer possessions.

Officials

  • 1554 Johann von Hattstein (Königstein magistrate)
  • 1692–1697: JB Stahl (Bassenheim Head of Office)

literature

  • Jost Kloft: Territorial history of the Usingen district (= writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies. Item 32). Elwert, Marburg 1971, ISBN 3-7708-0421-X , pp. 191-192, p. 210 (also: Marburg, Univ., Diss. 1957).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the double date results from the fact that the duke and the co-regent signed the edict at different times
  2. ↑ Harry Müzing, The mediatization of the former imperial directors and imperial knights in the Duchy of Nassau, Diss. 1980, pp. 108-109
  3. ↑ Harry Müzing, The mediatization of the former imperial directors and imperial knights in the Duchy of Nassau, Diss. 1980, pp. 156–157
  4. ^ Klaus Wagner: The 48 revolution in the Usinger country; In: Klaus Wagner (Hrsg.): Geliebtes Usinger Land - history and tales of our homeland, 1982, ISBN 3-923658-01-X , pp. 29–35
  5. ↑ Harry Müzing, The mediatization of the former imperial directors and imperial knights in the Duchy of Nassau, Diss. 1980, p. 158