Neuweilnau office

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The Neuweilnau office was a Nassau-Weilburg Nassau-Usingischer administrative district with its seat in Neuweilnau . The office went on in the office Usingen .

history

In 1302 the county of Weilnau was divided and the Neuweilnau office was created. 1306, the first will be bailiff in Neuweilnau called. In 1326 half of the County of Weilnau passed into Nassau hands. The Neuweilnau Castle now formed the core of Nassau domination in the middle Weiltal . An official structure was set up with the acquisition. 1328 the first bailiff of Altweilnau is named. In 1641 a burgrave was named for the office, as early as 1529 a rent master. With the division of Nassau-Weilburg between Philip IV and his brother Albrecht , Neuweilnau Castle became the residence of Philip IV. Under his successor Wilhelm Nassau-Weilburg , the two lines were reunited.

A description of the office has not been received. The lower jurisdiction in the office was mainly exercised by parish courts, which followed the church organization (and therefore not congruent with the official boundaries).

The multiple inheritance divisions of the House of Nassau led to the formation of the Nassau-Usingen line in 1659 . The Neuweilnau office was assigned to this. At the same time, Neuweilnau's importance declined due to the residence in Usingen . 1656 was the last time a bailiff was named in Neuweilnau, 1695 the last time a burgrave. In 1729, the office was formally canceled as part of a reorganization of the Nassau-Usinger administrative structure.

people

Bailiffs

  • Marquart (1306)
  • Emmerich von Reinberg (1374)
  • Johann von Hattstein called Hartenfels (1410)
  • Emmerich von Reinberg (around 1480)
  • Adolf von Reinberg (1493)
  • Marquart von Hattstein (1514–1532)
  • Emmerich von Stockheim (1558–1564)
  • Emmerich von Stockheim and Kraft Riedesel (1564)
  • Reinhard von Schletten (1573)
  • Johann Pica (1592-1604)
  • Jacob Frentzel (1610- before 1614)
  • Jacob Tieffenbacher (1617-1625)
  • Philipp Heinrich von Wachenheim (1631–1637)
  • Heinrich Kempfer (1639–1641)
  • Geradus Rouvelly (1641)
  • Johann Nicolaus Frentzel (1641–1656)

Burgraves

  • Emmerich von Stockheim (1541–1554)
  • Burkhard von Stockheim (1557–1558)
  • Johann von Reinheim (1559)
  • Burkhard von Stockheim (1560)
  • Heinrich Selberlynck (1562)
  • Burkhard von Stockheim (1571)
  • Johann Conrad Otto (1694–1695)

literature

  • Jost Kloft: Territorialgeschichte des Kreises Usingen , Marburg 1971, ISBN 3-7708-0421X , pages 185-187, pages 211-212