Office Löhnberg

The office Löhnberg was a joint office between Nassau-Oranien and Nassau-Weilburg until 1773 with its seat in Löhnberg . It was subordinate to the Oberamt Weilburg . The office went on in the Weilburg office .

The office consisted of Löhnberg , Odersbach and Waldhausen .

In 1773 there was an exchange of territory (Löhnberg exchange contract) between Nassau-Orange and Nassau-Weilburg. Orange received the places Hüblingen, Neunkirchen and Rückershausen from the Merenberg office . In return, Nassau-Weilburg received the Orange shares in the Löhnberg office.

literature

• Otto Rudolf Kissel: Modern Territorial and Legal History of the State of Hesse, 19661, p. 151
• Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution to the most recent times, Volume 3, 1832, p. 93, ( online at Google Books )