Office Nohfelden (Zweibrücken)

The Nohfelden office was an administrative and judicial district of Pfalz-Zweibrücken that existed from the middle of the 15th century to 1794 .

history

In 1345 the Counts of Veldenz had acquired half of Veldenz Castle and the lordship that went with it. In 1476 Zweibrücken (as heir to Veldenz) acquired the second half. Veldenz Castle was the seat of the Zweibrücken bailiff and core of the Nohfelden office. On February 24, 1480, Duke Alexander acquired the care of Achtelsbach from Henrich Vogt von Hunoldstein and assigned the acquired places to the Nohfelden office.

After the occupation and later annexation of the left bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the rule of two bridges ended. The office was repealed and its area became part of the canton of Baumholder . In 1815 the area became part of the Principality of Birkenfeld . There was again an office Nohfelden with a slightly enlarged district.

scope

In the end, the following places belonged to the office:

• Heirstein
• Asweiler
• Eitzweiler
• Mosberg
• Steinberg-ceiling hardt
• Wollhausen
• Scharzhof
• Holzhausen
• Wolfersweiler
• Gumbsweiler
• Nohfelden
• Ellweiler
• Dernbach
• Trauma
• Meckenbach
• Achtelsbach
• Neuhof
• Iron (ceded by Baden to Zweibrücken)
• Hauptenthal
• Eckelhausen
• Gonnesweiler ( Dominium utile from the Lords of Schwarzenberg)
• Neunkirchen (Dominium utile from the Lords of Schwarzenberg)
• Sellbach (Dominium utile from the Lords of Schwarzenberg)
• Imsbach (Dominium utile from the Lords of Schwarzenberg)

literature

• Johann Heinrich Bachmann: Pfalz Zweibrükisches Staats-Recht, Volume 1, 1784, pp. 31-32, digitized .
• Annual report of the Society for Useful Research in Trier, 1864, p. 64, digitized .