Office Partenstein

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The Partenstein office was an office of the County of Rieneck , then the County of Hanau-Munzenberg and von Kurmainz .

function

In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.

history

The office initially belonged to the County of Rieneck . In the conflict between the Archbishops of Mainz and the Counts of Rieneck for power in the western Spessart , the Archbishop of Mainz, Werner von Eppstein , was victorious in 1271 . One result of this defeat was that a daughter of Count Ludwig III, Elisabeth , was married to Ulrich I , Herr von Hanau . On October 2, 1272 Elisabeth and Ulrich were engaged to be married. At that time, both were still children or adolescents, because the wedding was not to take place for six years. In 1277 half of the Partenstein office was passed on to the Lords of Hanau as trousseau from Elisabeth . The other half went to the Archdiocese of Mainz .

Both halves were ruled together as a condominate . One of the consequences of this was that - in contrast to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg , to which the Partenstein office belonged at that time - the Reformation could not prevail. In 1684 there was an exchange of territory between the County of Hanau and the archbishopric: Hanau's share in the Partenstein and other office was ceded to the archbishopric against the Mainz half of the Bieber and other office, which was also shared .

The Partenstein office came to the Principality of Aschaffenburg as a result of the secularization of the Archdiocese in 1803 , then belonged to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt and in 1814 fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Components

The Partenstein office included:

literature

  • Dommerich: Documented history of the gradual expansion of the County of Hanau from the middle of the 13th century until the house died out in 1736 . In: Communications of the Hanau District Association for Hessian History 1/2 (1860), pp. 114f, 128, 195.
  • Regenerus Engelhard: Description of the earth of the Hessian Lands Casselischen Antheiles with notes from history and from documents explained . Part 2, Cassel 1778, ND 2004, p. 791.
  • Franziska Haase: Ulrich I., Lord of Hanau 1281–1306 . Masch. Diss. Münster 1924, p. 11, 19.

Remarks

  1. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900-1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 196 –230 (208) - she follows Zimmermann, p. 60f - assumes that Hanau received his half at the Partenstein office only in 1333, when the Rieneck-Rothenfels line expired in 1333 and Ulrich II von Hanau via his mother, Elisabeth von Rieneck -Rothenfels, inherited half of the office.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Ruf: Hanau and Rieneck. About the changeable relationship between two neighboring noble families in the Middle Ages . In: New Magazine for Hanau History, 8th Vol., No. 6, p. 304.
  2. ^ Theodor Ruf: The Counts of Rieneck - Genealogy and the formation of territories . Würzburg 1984, p. 59f.
  3. ↑ Possibly: Wombach . Note only from Haase, pp. 11, 19.