Merzig Office

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The community Saargau and Merzig (spatially the lower Saargau ) was an administrative and judicial district existing from 1334 to 1778 as a condominium between the Duchy of Lorraine and the Electorate of Trier . In 1778 there was a real division and the Trierische Amt Merzig comprised the parts to the right of the Saar (and was expanded to include other places from the Losheim nursing home) while the parts to the left of the Saar fell to the Kingdom of France .

history

With the extinction of the Saargau counts of the lower Saargau, Trier had withdrawn the property as a settled fiefdom. The House of Luxembourg received shares in the property through pledges, which were inherited to the dukes of Lorraine and finally to the French kings. On July 30, 1620, Lorraine and Trier agreed in a treaty on the modalities of common rule. With the Peace of Vienna in 1737, Lorraine became part of France. In the Treaty of Nancy in 1740, France and Trier confirmed their common rule. With a contract dated July 1, 1778, the real division between France and Trier took place.

This gave Kurtrier unrestricted sovereignty over the city of Merzig and the places Biezen , Harlingen , Menningen , Bachen on this side of the brook, Ponten , part of Besseringen , St. Gangolph , Montclair and Mettlach (place and abbey).

In 1779 the Merzig office in Trier was formed. In addition to the previous places on the right of the Saar, the office received the Losheim care from the Saarburg office .

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. The Losheim care consisted of Losheim , Niederlosheim , Nunkirchen , Wahlen , Buschfeld , Oppen , Reimsbach , Erhaben , Düppenweiler , Nieder- and Oberweiler, Rissenthal , Rimlingen , Bardenbach , Bachem , Brotorf , Hausbach , Britten , Saarhölzbach , Bergen , Scheiden and Wallhölzbach .

After the conquest and annexation of the German territories on the left bank of the Rhine during the Revolutionary Wars by the French revolutionary armies in 1794, the office was in fact legally part of France through the Treaty of Lunéville on February 9, 1801. The office was dissolved. Instead, on the 4th Pluviôse on VI (= 23 January 1798), the canton of Merzig was established in the Arrondissement de Saarbrücken in the Département de la Sarre .

literature

  • Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old empire: Edition and commentary on the Kurtrier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, volume 2, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 613–664.
  • Peter Brommer: Kurtrier's offices. 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. 554 ff. ( Online at dilibri.de)
  • Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional conditions of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution to the most recent times, Volume 3, 1832, p. 614, digitized .