Office of Nürburg

Nürburg Castle, the official seat until the end of the 17th century

The Office Nürburg was until the end of the 18th century an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Cologne . The administrative seat was initially Nürburg Castle , after its destruction the town of Adenau .

The Nürburg office was divided into five mayor offices (historical spelling of the place names):

• Schultheiß Adenau office with the stain Adenau and villages Breidscheid , Gilgenbach , Herschbroich , Kottenborn , Leimbach , Quiddelbach , Wimbach
• Schultheißenamt Reifferscheid and Vogtei Barweiler with the villages of Barweiler , Bauler , Hoffeld , Kirmutscheid , Müsch , Pomster , Reifferscheid , Rodder , Wiesemscheid , Werft
• Schultheißenamt of the "four honors on debt" (also Schultheißenamt Schuld) with the villages of Dümpelfeld , Harscheid , Insul , Lückenbach , Nieder-Adenau , Schuld , Sierscheid , Winnerath
• Schultheißenamt Uersfeld with the villages of Berenbach , Gunderath , Harperath , Hausen (today Höchstberg ), Hörschhausen , Kaperich ( Kölnische Höfe ), Katzwinkel , Köttrichen , Mosbruch , Sassen , Uersfeld , Uess
• Schultheißenamt Welcherath with the villages of Brück , Drees , Kirsbach , Mauspath , Nitz , Reimerath , Thal-Nürburg , Welcherath

At times the rule of Kaltenborn was also under the administration of the Nürburg Office.

The highest jurisdiction (jurisdiction) in the office was subordinate to the Landschultheiß (judge, judex). For the lower jurisdiction, mayors in the above mayor offices were responsible. By the end of the 18th century, however, the Landschultheiß gradually took over the presidency of the local lay jury. In 1782 there was only the Landschultheissen in Adenau.

After the wisdom of Nürburg in 1515 and 1553, there were a total of 28 lay judges in the Nürburg office , namely at Adenau, Reifferscheid, Welcherath and Barweiler. During a border inspection in 1732, the towns of Meuspath, Krebsbacher Hof, Thal-Nürburg and Neukirch were listed separately from Welcherath as a separate mayor's office.

In addition to the castle fiefs at Nürburg Castle, there were knights' seats in the office "Zur Mühlen" (in Adenau), Honerath, Wensberg and Heyer.

Ecclesiastically, the places in the Nürburg office were subordinate to the Archdiocese of Trier .

Bailiffs

• 1760 Josef Clemens Freiherr von Vorst-Lombeck
• 1794 Baron Max Friedrich von Lombeck

Individual evidence

1. ^ Woldemar Harleß , Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Lacomblet's Archive for the History of the Lower Rhine , ninth volume, first volume, Heberle, Cöln 1868, p. 239 ( Google Books )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province , 2nd vol .: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898. P. 71–72 u. 98
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Peter Blum: Adenau und Umgebung , Adenau 1952, p. 36