Mengerskirchen Office

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The Mengerskirchen office was a Nassau-Dillenburg or Orange and finally a ducal Nassau office with its seat in Mengerskirchen .

After 1620 Nassau-Hadamar set up the Mengerskirchen office from parts of the previous offices of Ellar and Beilstein . This was preceded by the move from Count Georg von Nassau-Beilstein to Dillenburg . As a result, the county of Nassau-Beilstein was divided. Nassau-Hadamar received the parish Mengerskirchen that it united with the parish Elsoff to the new office. At the head of the office was a bailiff and a country school , who was also the responsible cellar .

From 1717 it belonged to Nassau-Dillenburg, adding the parish of Neunkirchen acquired by Nassau-Weilburg. In 1727, without the parish of Elsoff, it was merged into the Mengerskirchen-Ellar office with the official seat in Mengerskirchen. The parish Elsoff was attached to the office chair area (seat in Rennerod ) and fell to Nassau-Diez. After the extinction of the Nassau-Dillenburg line, the Mengerskirchen-Ellar office also fell to the Nassau-Diez family from 1743, which was later renamed Orange-Nassau. The House of Orange-Nassau entrusted the management and jurisdiction of the entire former Principality of Nassau-Hadamar to an official college of three officials with headquarters in Hadamar . The official administration was based in Mengerskirchen Castle . In 1775 the Mengerskirchen office was set up again.

In 1806 the office fell to the Grand Duchy of Berg . In the Grand Duchy of Berg, the offices were dissolved and cantons were established instead. The Mengerskirchen office fell mainly to the canton of Driedorf . Soon after the Battle of Leipzig , the Grand Duchy dissolved and Nassau-Orange got its territories back. After it was returned to Nassau-Orange in 1813, the previous Orange offices, including the Mengerskirchen office, were re-established in their old form. On May 31, 1815, Orange ceded the hereditary lands to Prussia . Prussia in turn swapped territories with the Duchy of Nassau, so that the Mengerskirchen office now became part of the Duchy. When the office was reformed on July 1, 1816, the Mengerskirchen office was incorporated into the Weilburg office.

Bailiffs

  • 1727–1733: Johann Eberwein Reichmann
  • 1733–1744: Philipp Wilhelm Adrian Chelius
  • 1775–1787: Georg Gottfried Muzelius
  • 1775–1787: Schenck
  • 1790-1811: Arnold Christian Gail

literature

  • Hellmuth Gensicke: Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes , 1958, ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  • Map: The states of the princes of Nassau-Dietz, Siegen, Dillenburg, Hadamar, Weilburg, Usingen, Idstein, Saarbrück and Ottweiler, with the counties Holzapfel, Sayn and Wied , Vienna 1791, online at: dilibri.de (accessed July 30 2013)