Offendorf Office

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The Offendorf Office (also: Office Oberhof , later: Vogtei Offendorf ) was an office of the Lichtenberg rule , then the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg and passed to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt with the death of the last Hanau count .

history

The Lichtenberg lordship formed the Offendorf Office by making part of the Pfaffenhofen Office, which had become too extensive due to the expansion of the area, in the 15th century . In any case, the office already existed in 1440. Here, the seat of seems bailiff in the 15th century. In Oberhofen , later in Offendorf to have been. Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), one of the two heirlooms of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474) married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417; † 1480), one of them had received a small secondary school from the inventory of the County of Hanau in order to be able to get married. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage. After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. In 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule, the other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The bailiwick Offendorf also belonged to the latter inheritance. However, there was another inheritance in 1570, which also brought the Offendorf Office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg: Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter Heiress. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already ruled by Hanau-Lichtenberg, and included the Offendorf office.

As a result of France's reunion policy in 1680, considerable parts of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Alsace fell under the sovereignty of France . This also included the Offendorf office. The French Crown's grasp went particularly far here: it enforced that the mayors of the Offendorf office had to be of Roman Catholic denomination . The Counts of Hanau opposed this and appointed Lutheran bailiffs .

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg - and with it the Office of Offendorf - followed there. In the course of the French Revolution , the part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg on the left bank of the Rhine fell to France. In the course of the revolutionary restructuring, this also dissolved the old administration.

According to a census from May 1798, the office had 4,092 inhabitants.

Components

places

place origin Law annotation
Drusenheim before 1401 Roman Catholic parish after the Reunion
Herrlisheim 1342 bought from Ötingen Pledged in the meantime, released again in 1401; Roman Catholic parish after the Reunion
Kotzenhausen Mid-15th century part of the office, no longer at the end of the 18th century.
Oberhoffen (Oberhofen) Allod or half allod , the other fiefdom of the Bishop of Speyer In the meantime pledged, 1401 released again
Offendorf (Bas-Rhin) 1342 bought by those from Ötingen Pledged in the meantime, released again in 1401; Roman Catholic parish after the Reunion
Rohrwiller (Rohrweiler) (Rothweiler) 1342 bought by those from Ötingen Pledged in the meantime, released again in 1401; Roman Catholic parish after the Reunion
Schüriet (Schüre, Scheuer) Pledged in the meantime, released again in 1401; later desolation

Other components

The Breymühle (crushing mill) near Herlisheim and the desert areas belonged to the Offendorf office

  • Eggershofen (courtyard)
  • Houses of worship
  • Hirsau (courtyard)
  • Memprechtshofen

literature

  • Jean-Claude Brumm: Quelques dates importantes dans l'histoire… . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (ed.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480–1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 10f.
  • Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
  • Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
  • Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.
  • Wilhelm Mechler: The territory of the Lichtenberger to the right of the Rhine . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (ed.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480–1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 31-37.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Also kept in the Lichtenau office (Knöpp, pp. 13, 15).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So: Matt, p. 7; Knöpp, p. 14
  2. ^ So: Eyer, p. 239.
  3. ↑ See: Matt, p. 7.
  4. ↑ See Eyer, p. 98.
  5. ↑ Eyer, p. 239; Matt, p. 7; Knöpp, p. 14f.
  6. ↑ Brumm, p. 11.
  7. ^ Matt, p. 7.
  8. ^ Matt, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  10. ↑ Eyer, p. 71.
  11. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.
  12. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  13. ↑ Eyer, p. 66.
  14. ↑ Eyer, p. 71.
  15. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.
  16. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  17. ↑ See: Knöpp, p. 15.
  18. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  19. ↑ Eyer, pp. 53, 111.
  20. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.
  21. ↑ Eyer, p. 71.
  22. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  23. ↑ Eyer, p. 66.
  24. ↑ Eyer, p. 71.
  25. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.
  26. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  27. ^ Matt, p. 7.
  28. ↑ Eyer, p. 66.
  29. ↑ Eyer, p. 71.
  30. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.
  31. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  32. ↑ Eyer, p. 71.
  33. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.
  34. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15; Matt, p. 7.
  35. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.