Office Maximin
The Office Maximin (in the literature Office St. Maximin ) was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier , by the second half of the 17th century to the late 18th century under Kurtrier sovereignty consisted. The Abbey of St. Maximin was entitled to high , middle and basic jurisdiction . The territory was identical to the previous county of Fell , which the abbey already owned in the Middle Ages.
Immediately adjacent offices were the Electorate of Trier Palatinate , Grimburg and Bernkastel as well as the Dhroneck office of the Rhine Count .
structure
In the second half of the 18th century, the office of Maximin was divided into four high court districts and comprised 20 villages:
- Detzem Supreme Court
- High Court Fell
- Fastrau
- Fell (Oberfell, Niederfell, Fellerhof)
- Herl ( Herll )
- Issel
- Know
- Cherry
- Longuich
- Loersch
- Lorscheid
- Riol
- Supreme Court Ruwer
- Ruwer (left the Ruwer )
- Abbey of St. Maximin with the "Hochstraß" (St. Maximinische Straße from the abbey to the St. Paulinische Stiftskirche)
- Mertesdorf with Grünhaus
- Tarforest
- Supreme Court Oberemmel
history
The Electoral Trier Office of St. Maximin arose from the area that originally formed the "Grafschaft Fell" and was owned by the St. Maximin Abbey . The abbey had already raised claims to imperial immediacy on this territory early on , which was disputed by the Trier electors. The Emperor had repeatedly spoken out against it. In two judgments of November 29, 1661 and May 1, 1669 it was decided that the area fell under Electoral Trier sovereignty . Following that judgment came between the abbey and the elector a comparison about, according to which the elector the country's sovereignty, the country's tribute , taxes and the appellation state, however, the abbot, the high , medium and basic justice in the Official St. Maximin, the vogtei metallic homage and received the right to pardon.
The abbot carried the title of “ Count of Fell” from the “Grafschaft Fell”. The county had an Oberhof at St. Maximin, called the "Court of the Red Door", through which the abbot exercised the highest jurisdiction.
See also
literature
- Gottfried Kentenich : Detailed description of the office of S. Maximin , in "Trierische Chronik", 8th year, 1912, Trier: Lintz, p. 83 ff ( dilibri.de )
- Electoral Trier court and state calendar , Koblenz, Elector. Hofbuchdruckerey, 1794 ( dilibri.de )
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province, Die Karte von 1789 (2nd volume), Bonn 1898. P. 119
- ↑ a b Jakob Marx : History of the Archbishopric Trier , Section 1, Volume 2, Trier: Lintz, 1859, p. 17 ( Google Books )
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