Mettmann Office

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The Mettmann office (then Ambt Metman ) in the Duchy of Berg is mentioned in 1363 in the Bergische Ämterverfassungs in 1363 for the connection to the county of Berg . In 1715 the office was mentioned in the archive of today 's Mettmann district . It describes the parishes and places Mettmann (Metman), Gerresheim , Erkrath (Erckrath), Eller , Hubbelrath (Hubelrath) and Wülfrath .

From 1435 at the latest, the bailiff of the Mettmann office also assumed the chairmanship of the jury of the Gerresheim monastery , which was responsible for legal cases in the city of Gerresheim. In 1481 the court in Gerresheim was divided into a city court for the actual city and a regional court for the honors Hubbelrath, Morp, Eller, Vennhausen and Ludenberg.

Bailiffs

The following officials are documented:

  • 1254: Ludwig, advocatus de Medemen
  • 1309: Erwin, advocatus de Medeme
  • 1354: Hermann von Winkelhausen, advocatus in Medemen
  • 1362–1362: Peter von Kalkum, amptman tzo Medemen
  • 1393: Heinrich (von Kalkum called) Bentheim, amptman zo Medem
  • 1600: Ludger von Winkelhausen zu Kalkum
  • 1626–1652: Rutger Bertram von Scholler

Individual evidence

  1. Albrecht Brendler: On the way to the territory. Administrative structure and office holder of the County of Berg 1225–1380 . Inaugural dissertation, Bonn 2015, p. 91.
  2. Renate Leffers: The neutrality policy of Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm as Duke of Jülich-Berg in the period 1636–1643 , Bergische Forschungen, Volume VIII, Neustadt an der Aisch 1971, p. 94.