Limburg Office

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Map of the Limburg Office 1828

The Limburg Office , based in Limburg an der Lahn, was an administrative and judicial district that originally belonged to Kurtrier , from 1803 to 1806 to Nassau-Weilburg and from 1806 to 1866 as an office to the Duchy of Nassau .

history

Kurtrier

Office Balduinstein

From the 14th century, Kurtrier managed to come into the possession of the city and office of Limburg. The origin of the Kurier rule in the Lahn area was Balduinstein . Archbishop Balduin began building Balduinstein Castle below the Schaumburg in 1319 . The Balduinstein office was one of 30 offices in the Trier bishopric. In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, 59 offices are already mentioned. These include the Balduinstein Office and the Limburg Office.

Archbishop Johann VI. (1556–1567) ordered a four-year land tax on November 26, 1556 with the consent of the state estates in Koblenz. The tax amounted to 3.5 guilders per 1000 guilders of wealth. On July 20, 1563, he requested reports from all offices that should provide information about the places and the taxpayers there. In the Balduinstein office there were 34 fire places in the following places:

Locality Number fire pits Trier subjects
Balduinstein 24 24
Hausen 10 10

Other parts of the Limburg office

In 1344 half of the city of Limburg was pledged to Kurtrier. With the death of John II in 1406, the last male representative of the House of Limburg died. The Archbishop of Trier managed to take over the entire rule after half of the city and castle had already been pledged to him and in 1380 the imperial feudal rule over the city had passed to them. In 1420 it passed entirely to the Electorate of Trier. In addition to the city of Limburg, the lordship of Limburg also included Elz, Oberbruch, Werschau and Bergen.

Niederbruch and Niederselters originally belonged to the Lords of Molsberg . In 1368 the Archdiocese of Trier acquired the land and feudal lordship over the Niederselters as well as the breakdown from the now impoverished Molsbergers to secure its influence against the House of Nassau . With the Diez Treaty of 1564, Nassau renounced all rights in Niederselters and Niederbruch, so that Kurtrier was sovereign from then on.

In 1348/1359 the Isenburg castle and the town of Villmar were conquered by Trier and in 1362 declared an imperial fief of the Archbishopric of Trier. In addition to Villmar, Arfurt also belonged to the office or bailiwick.

Trier had inherited a quarter of the County of Diez . With the Diezer Treaty of 1564 a real division of the county took place and Trier received in this context the parish Lindenholzhausen to which Eschhofen, Mühlen, Dietkirchen and Kraich ( desert ) belonged. The Limburg Office had thus reached its final stage.

At the end of HRR 1803 the office included Arfurt , Balduinstein , Dietkirchen , Elz , Eschhofen , Hausen , Langhecke (share), Limburg, Lindenholzhausen , Mühlen , Niederbruch , Niederselters , Oberbruch , Villmar and Werschau .

Nassau

In Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 received Nassau-Usingen office. As part of Ibell's reforms in 1816, 28 offices were established. The Limburg office was assigned the places of the previous Dauborn office and some neighboring locations. Until the end of the office it consisted of Dauborn , Dehrn , Dietkirchen, Eschhofen , Eufingen , Heringen , Kirberg , Limburg, Lindenholzhausen, Linter , Mensfelden , Mühlen, Nauheim , Neesbach , Niederbruch, Oberbruch, Stunden , Staffel and Werschau.

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The administrative tasks of the Idstein office were carried out by the Limburg district office , the jurisdiction of the Limburg judicial office. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

However, the establishment of the district council as representative of the people, which was created with the formation of the district offices in 1849, was retained . In the Limburg office, the district council consisted of the following people:

1854 to 1856 1857 to 1859 1860 to 1862 1863 to 1866
Joh. Georg Bellinger, Eschhofen 0 0 0
0 Mayor Hilb, Dehrn Hilb, Dehrn Hilb, Dehrn
Johann Knapp, Dauborn Johann Knapp, Dauborn Johann Knapp, Dauborn 0
0 0 Joseph Koenigstein, breaking down Joseph Koenigstein, breaking down
Joh. Nepomuk Kremer, Limburg Joh. Nepomuk Kremer, Limburg Joh. Nepomuk Kremer, Limburg Joh. Nepomuk Kremer, Limburg
Martin Mohr, Limburg Martin Mohr, Limburg Martin Mohr, Limburg Martin Mohr, Limburg
0 0 0 Jacob Otto, Lindenholzhausen
Schnug, veterinarian, Limburg Schnug, veterinarian, Limburg Schnug, veterinarian, Limburg Schnug, veterinarian, Limburg
Peter Stilger, Breaking Down Peter Stilger, Breaking Down Peter Stilger, Breaking Down 0

Prussia

With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia , the offices in their old form were also dissolved and replaced by circles. The Unterlahnkreis was created in 1867 from the Limburg Office and the Diez , Nassau and Nastätten offices . Only as part of this reorganization will administration and jurisdiction be separated. For the jurisdiction in the first instance, which was previously carried out by the office, the judicial officials in the offices were initially responsible and on September 1, 1867, the Limburg District Court was formed.

But even after the founding of the district, the previous office structure will be retained. The Royal Ordinance of February 22, 1867 regulated: "The administrative districts as narrower administrative districts exist in their previous limits" The former offices form the four districts of the district. According to § 13 of the district constitution, the districts sent the former offices six representatives to the new district council . The bailiff was in charge of the local police and the district administrator.

With the administrative reform of 1885/1886 the offices were finally dissolved.

Office building

Kurtriersches Amthaus

The Electorate of Trier at Kolpingstrasse 9 was built around 1695 by Wilhelm Lothar von Hohenfeld .

Officer

Bailiffs

Kurtrier

Officials (incomplete):

Nassau

State high schools

Medical Councils

  • Dr. Georg Bonifaz Rusticus Coels (until 1808)
  • Dr. Heinrich Rudio, previously Weilburg City and Country Physician (1809 to 1814)
  • Medical Councilor Johann Benedikt Daniel Nückel (1818 to 1821)
  • Medical Councilor Carl Thomas Wilhelm (1821 to 1825)
  • Senior Medical Officer Peter Thewalt, previously in Wallmerod (1825 to 1851)
  • Medical Councilor Dr. Theodor Heydenreich, previously in the same position in Dillenburg (1851 to 1854)
  • Medical Councilor Dr. Wilhelm Göbell, previously in Hadamar (1854 to 1866)

See also

literature

  • Otto Rudolf Kissel: Modern Territorial and Legal History of the State of Hesse , 1961, p. 151
  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815–1945, 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 164–185
  • Franz-Karl Nieder: The Ducal Nassau Office of Limburg 1802 to 1866, online

Web links

Commons : Amt Limburg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Laufner: The offices organization under Baldwin of Luxembourg; in: Johannes Mötsch , Franz-Josef Heyen (Hrsg.): Balduin von Luxemburg. Archbishop of Trier - Elector of the Empire. Festschrift on the occasion of the 700th year of birth. (= Sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine . Vol. 53). Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz 1985, pp. 289 ff., Digitized
  2. ^ Peter Brommer : The offices of Kurtrier: manorial rule, jurisdiction, taxation and residents; Edition of the so-called Feuerbuch from 1563, 2003, ISBN 3-929135-40-X , p. 19.
  3. ↑ Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old empire: Edition and commentary on the Electoral Trier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, Volume 1, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 367-436.
  4. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409).
  5. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160).
  6. ↑ VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
  7. ↑ Royal Decree of February 22, 1867 Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau of March 11, 1867, § 8 and 9
  8. ↑ GS 1885, p. 229
  9. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Former. Kurtrierer Amtshaus In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen