Office Oberwesel

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The Oberwesel office was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier with its seat in Oberwesel, which existed from the 14th century to the end of the 18th century . It was part of the Nieder-Erzstiftes Trier and in the 18th century subordinated to the Oberamt Boppard .

history

At the beginning of the 14th century, an organization of offices was established in Trier. Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg formed an administrative office based on the French model. At the time, the Oberwesel office was one of 30 offices in the Trier monastery.

Archbishop Johann VI. (1556–1567) ordered a four-year land tax on November 26, 1556 with the consent of the state estates in Koblenz. The tax amounted to 3.5 guilders per 1000 guilders of wealth. On July 20, 1563, he requested reports from all offices that should provide information about the places and the taxpayers there. In the Oberwesel office there were 529 fire places in the following places:

Locality Number fire pits Subjects Stranger serfs
City of Oberwesel 529 611 13
Langscheid 29 31 8th
Perscheid 27 30th 1
Dellhofen 25th 26th 5
Arable 19th 26th 2
Niederburg 45 46 6th
Damscheid 35 42 9
"Hann" 15th 31
Wiebelsheim 16 19th 7th
Laudert 2 3 3
Kisselbach 13 14th 6th
Liebshausen 13 16 6th
Gödenroth 0 18th 16

In the end, the HRR from the city of Oberwesel and the villages of Birkheim, Damscheid, Dellhofen, Kisselbach, Langscheid, Laudert, Liebshausen, Niederburg, Perscheid, Urbar and Wiebelsheim belonged to the office.

At the beginning of the 18th century the high jurisdiction for the neighboring offices was concentrated in Boppard . The function of the bailiff was also increasingly performed in personal union by the bailiff in the Boppard office. The Oberwesel office was no longer an independent administrative district, but part of the Boppard office. With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794. The area came mainly to the canton of Bacharach in the Simmern arrondissement of the Rhine-Moselle department .

Official seat

Electoral Trier winery

The former Kurtrierische winery at Oberstraße 13 is a listed building.

literature

  • Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old empire: Edition and commentary on the Electoral Trier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, Volume 1, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 149-209.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Laufner: The offices organization under Baldwin of Luxembourg; in: Johannes Mötsch , Franz-Josef Heyen (Hrsg.): Balduin von Luxemburg. Archbishop of Trier - Elector of the Empire. Festschrift on the occasion of the 700th year of birth. (= Sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine . Vol. 53). Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz 1985, pp. 289 ff., Digitized
  2. ^ Peter Brommer: The offices of Kurtrier. Manorial rule, jurisdiction, taxation and residents. Edition of the so-called fire book from 1563 . Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Trier 2003, ISBN 3-929135-40-X , p. 21. ( online at dilibri.de)