Neuenhain office

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Former office building

The Neuenhain office was a Königsteiner , Elector Palatinate and Kurmainzer office based in Neuenhain .

history

Neuenhain and other places in the Sulzbach Bailiwick belonged to the Counts of Königstein as fiefs of the Limburg monastery . The last lord of the county, Count Christoph zu Stolberg , died on August 5th, 1581. Thereupon the Mainz Elector Daniel Brendel von Homburg informed his brother Albrecht Georg zu Stolberg that the county was to be regarded as a settled imperial fief by power of attorney from Emperor Rudolf II and the elector would be appointed as Reich Commissioner for the rule. While the rest of the county fell to Kurmainz, another part of the county formed the new Kurpfälzer Amt Neuenhain.

The office consisted of the villages Neuenhain , Altenhain and Schneidhain .

During the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War the office changed hands several times. From 1620 it was under Spanish administration, came in 1627 as an imperial donation to Count Johann Karl von Schönburg , was under Swedish administration from 1631, came back to Count von Schönburg in 1635 and returned to Electoral Palatinate in 1648.

In 1650, as part of the Bergstrasse recession (which was completed in Neuenhain), an area was swapped with Kurmainz. The Office Neuenhain (a Kurpfälzer exclave , surrounded by Kurmainzer area) has now kurmainzisch and organizationally as a office and winery Neuenhain the Oberamt Koenigstein assumed. In 1773 the sub-office was canceled and the management of the Kronberg winery was transferred.

Office building

There was no office in Neuenhain. The Vogtei-Schulhisse probably lived in rented houses. In 1592/93 the new office building, the Herrenbau, was built in today's Herrengasse. The "Thröner Hofes" from the 14th / 15th centuries used to be there. Century found. The property of this court was with the end of the monastery throne to the Count Johann VI. passed from Nassau-Dillenburg , who sold the property of the dilapidated court in 1591 for 1,369 guilders to Count Palatine Johann Kasimir .

The new office building was a courtyard closed on three sides with a press house and a fruit store. In addition, a tower was built as a court prison and stables. The existing buildings were also included in the construction. Half of the former tithe barn, a construction made of field stones, probably dates from the 15th century.

The high, two-storey angular building of the office building is still preserved today. The building has been used as a Protestant rectory since 1795 and is now a listed building .

Bailiffs

Count Palatine Johann Kasimir appointed the previous Königstein bailiff Philipp Wolf von Praunheim (-Klettenberg) (1530-1618) as bailiff in 1581 . However, since he was based in his Schloss Philippseck in Heddernheim and not in Neuenhain, a Vogtei-Schulheiß was appointed as permanent representative on site. These were:

  • 1581–1589: Johann Queck
  • 1586–1587: Konrad Marschall
  • 1587–1590: Johann Neutze
  • 1590–1610: Eberhard Maywaldt

During the tenure of Eberhard Maywaldt, the position of bailiff was vacant. In 1610, Junker Julius von Damm was again appointed a bailiff.

literature

  • Otto Raven: The "Herrenbau" in Neuenhain - The Electoral Mainz cellars in the Oberamt Königstein . In: Heimatliche Geschichtsblätter, Königstein im Taunus 1957, Issue 4, pp. 77-80

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