Office Linz (Kurköln)

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The Electoral Castle Linz in Linz on the Rhine

The Linz Office was an administrative unit and a judicial district of the Electorate of Cologne , which existed from the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century. Around 1718 the Linz office was elevated to a higher office. The main place of the office was in the city of Linz on the Rhine , the administrative seat in the electoral castle built in the 14th century .

structure

The following courts and sub- rulers from the Electorate of Cologne (without sub- offices) belonged to the Linz office :

Judgment / rule Localities Belonging to the Linz office
City Court of Linz Ariendorf (to the right of the stream), Ginsterhahn , Grendel (1700), Hargarten , Hesseln, Hilkerscheid , Krumscheid, Leubsdorf , Linz, Linzhausen , Niedererl , Noll , Notscheid , Oberkasbach , Ockenfels , Ohlenberg , Obererl , Rodenbruch (1335) from beginning to
Unkel City Court Berg (→ 1620), Rheinbreitbach , Scheuren , Unkel from beginning to
Dattenberg rule Alsauer Hut, Dattenberg, Hof Heeg, Hof Ronig, Wallen since 1418

After the elevation of the Linz office to the Oberamt around 1718, this also included the administrative area of ​​the Altenwied office (with the Burglahr rule ) and the Schönstein dominion and, after 1740, that of the Neuerburg office . The Erpel court is also listed as part of the Linz office, but after 1493 it was always under the jurisdiction of the Cologne cathedral chapter .

history

The administrative area of ​​the Linz office had fallen into the sovereignty of the Archbishop of Cologne in the second half of the 13th century . It was part of the Altenwied office until at least 1403 and was created until the middle of the 15th century when this office was spun off. A first bailiff in Linz is mentioned in 1456, officials from the Altenwied office (including a rentmaster in 1491 ) were also based in Linz. In the course of the 17th century this personal union between the two offices was consolidated ; in 1705 the seat of the office in Altenwied had already been moved to Linz. The Linz office was elevated to a higher office in 1718 at the latest, when Ferdinand von Breidbach-Bürresheim appeared as the first higher official.

In 1803 the Linz office was ceded to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen due to the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss and , after the establishment of the Rhine Confederation , formed the Nassau Office Linz from 1806 , expanded to include the Lahr glory .

literature

  • Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, pp. 67–71, 96/97.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 2. Reprint. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 .
  2. ↑ Dorothea F. Vogtländer: 1000 years Rheinbreitbach - community between tradition and progress. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied, 1977, p. 46.