Office Münstermaifeld

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The Münster (maifeld) office was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier that existed from the 14th century to the end of the 18th century . In the 18th century it was subordinate to the Oberamt Münstermaifeld .

history

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 Münstermaifeld office there were fire pits in the following places:

Locality Number fire pits
Thieving 52
Gondorf 20th
Niederfell 33
Mosel core 51
Clay 33
Löf 33
Hatzenport 56
Tired 75
Cards 40
Fair 14th
Münstermaifeld approx. 70
Over 26th
Küttig 21st
Lasserg 15th
Message 15th
Cold 15th
Gierschnach 16
Metternich 21st
Naunheim 35
Pillig 47
Moselsürch 15th
Great 17th
Notches approx. 10
Dreckenach 15th
March 10
Some 9
Low 13
Mighty me 15th
Attention approx. 75
Gappenach 22nd
Mertloch 0

In a description of the office from 1785, Lonnig and Ochtendung are described as part of the Kobern office. Nörtershausen , Sevenig and the Kalsch farm in Münstermaifeld are now named as parts of the Münstermaifeld office.

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by the French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794. In the French era , the area belonged to the canton of Münstermaifeld .

Electoral court

The seat of the chief magistrate was the electoral court in what is now Untertorstrasse 10/12. The cripple-hip roof building made of quarry stone is marked 1651, the associated barns with 1787. The farm is a listed building. Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 50.8 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 39.9 ″  E

See also

literature

  • 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 2, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 869–876.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Brommer: The offices of Kurtrier. Manorial rule, jurisdiction, taxation and residents. Edition of the so-called fire book from 1563 . Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Trier 2003, ISBN 3-929135-40-X , p. 21 ff. ( Online at dilibri.de)