Amt Maßbach
The Amt Maßbach (also Amt Massbach ) was an office of the Maßbach family , the county of Henneberg and various Ernestine duchies.
history
The von Maßbach were ministerials of the Hennebergers. The sex named itself after the place Maßbach . In 1340/47 Maßbach is mentioned for the first time as a cent seat. The Maßbach office has belonged to the old Henneberg rule since the division in 1347. In 1395, Count Heinrich X. von Henneberg pledged Maßbach Castle, Vogtamt, court and spell wine to be pledged to his brother-in-law, Margrave Bernhard von Baden. In 1402 the brothers Eberhard and Albrecht von Maßbach became pledges. In 1408 they were able to finally acquire the castle with the neck and village court and all accessories for 2000 guilders . The family remained in possession of the office until it died out in the male line in 1637. After extinction, sovereign rights reverted to the fiefdoms. The Maßbach manor was given to the imperial general Count Melchior von Gleichen and Hatzfeld in 1643 as a fiefdom and sold by his heirs to the von Rosenbach brothers in 1699.
In 1583 the Hennebergers died out and the Würzburg monastery received half of Maßbach and had it administered by the Münnerstadt office. The Ernestine property was administered jointly by both lines of the house through the joint government in Meiningen until 1660. In 1660 the division took place and the Maßbach office came to Saxony-Coburg . The office was now administered from Coburg. After their extinction, the office fell to Sachsen-Eisenach in 1672 , the administration was also carried out by the Office Lichtenberg . In 1741 the office passed to Sachsen-Weimar .
With regard to the rights of Würzburg and Saxony, comparisons were made in 1593 and 1601. Würzburg waived further claims, but kept the bailiwick over the then 40 Würzburg subjects.
The office consisted only of Maßbach and the new courtyard built around 1545 . Therefore, the property was administered by neighboring offices of the sovereigns.
The main court
In 1408 the von Maßbach family acquired the Henneberg district court. The Zent was much more extensive than the Bailiwick Office. It included places of the Würzburg authorities Ebenhausen , Mainberg , Rottenstein and the Poppenlauer Bailiwick and the Burgrave Thundorf . 1598 sold the von Maßbach ¾ of the district court to the Burggrafentum Thundorf (a Schaumberg condominium ). In 1567, however, the childless Veit Ulrich von Schaumberg offered the entire Burgrave Thundorf Würzburg as a fief. This situation led to conflicts between Würzburg and Saxony (who were the heir to the Henneberg feudal givers of the Zent), which were to be resolved in 1601 with a joint central order. The conflicts continued to smolder, however, until 1626 the von Schaumberg sold the high court rights in the Würzburg places of the Zent to the Würzburg monastery. Thus, the central court was again undisputed Saxon possession, but the central office had shrunk to the places Poppenlauer , Ransbach , Rothhausen , Theinfeld and Thundorf . In 1699 Maßbach and Volkershausen joined the Zent. In 1735 the seat was moved to Thundorf.
resolution
After the transfer to Bavaria in 1802, the Maßbach office was canceled and the places assigned to the Münnerstadt district court .
literature
- Heinrich Wagner: Kissingen: Stadt- und Altlandkreis - Historical Atlas of Bavaria (HAB), Volume 36 of Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Part Franconia, Series I, 2009, ISBN 9783769668575 , pp. 141–142, 239–250, 345–346 , 361-363, digitized