Office of Reifenberg

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Bassenheimer Palais - The official seat

The office of Reifenberg (formerly the rule of Reifenberg ) was a Reifenberger , then a Bassenheimer and finally a Nassau office in the area of ​​today's Hochtaunuskreis ( Hesse ). The official seat was Oberreifenberg , it existed until 1810.

history

Reifenberg Castle

Since the 15th century, a small domain of the lower aristocratic family Reifenberg developed in the high Taunus . It included Ober- and Niederreifenberg , Arnoldshain , Schmitten and Seelenberg .

The last Reifenberg knight Philipp Ludwig von Reiffenberg , a canon of the Electorate of Mainz, was last imprisoned as an Electorate of Mainz prisoner from 1676 until his death in 1686 at the Veste Königstein. With him, the noble family died out and the reign of Reifenberg went as an inheritance to the house of Waldbott von Bassenheim . However, the rule was in Kurmainzer pledge since 1681 and remained in it until about 1725. In 1781 the office of Reifenberg is combined with the office of Cransberg, which is also Bassenheim .

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (1803) the Bassenheim offices of Reifenberg and Kransberg fall to Nassau-Usingen and subsequently to the Duchy of Nassau (1806). With the office reform in Nassau on July 16, 1810, the office Reifenberg was assigned to the office Usingen and went into it.

Conflict over the occupation by Nassau-Usingen

In the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 it was decided to assign the imperial knighthood areas to the neighboring principalities. Prince Friedrich August von Nassau-Usingen therefore issued an occupation patent on January 3, 1804 with regard to the reign of Reifenberg. The Nassau-Usingen magistrate Brückner was sent with 5 copies of this patent and 7 armed men from his official seat in Kronberg im Taunus to formally subjugate the 5 villages to Nassau-Usingen. However, he met resistance. The representative of Count Waldbott von Bassenheim, Chamber Councilor Krebs, explained that only Schmitten and Arnoldsheim were Imperial Knights, but that Reifenberg itself had the character of its own Imperial estate . With that, Schmitten and Arnoldsheim would have to be incorporated into Reifenberg as a separate imperial estate and not Usingen. Brückner and his troops had to leave without having achieved anything; the patents were removed again in all 5 villages.

Nassau-Usingen now sent an entire company to occupy the office of Reifenberg. Against this occupation, Count Waldbott von Bassenheim declared before the Reich Chamber of Commerce on January 9, 1804 a judgment that Usingen had to withdraw the troops, which then happened.

In 1806 Nassau-Usingen joined the Rhine Confederation and left the Holy Roman Empire . With the end of the Holy Roman Empire, Waldbott von Bassenheim's ability to prevent the office of Reifenberg from being incorporated into Nassau-Usingen also ended.

On September 12, 1806 Justizrat Brückner traveled again to the 5 Taunus villages. This time there was no resistance to the posting of the occupation patents. Even if Chamber Councilor Krebs refused to agree to the seizure, Nassau-Usingen appointed a Nassau high school hotter as a bailiff in Reifenberg the following day.

Reifenberg Castle

Administrative headquarters

The office of the bailiff was initially the Reifenberg Castle and later the Bassenheimer Palais in Oberreifenberg.

Duke of Nassau Counts Waldbott-Bassenheim Office

While the Amt Reifenberg had ceased to exist with the integration into the Amt Usingen, even after the mediatization, partial status privileges of the Counts of Waldbott-Bassenheim continued to exist . In addition, the counts were the largest landowners in the former office of Reifenberg. Organizationally, these rights were administered in the Duke of Nassau Counts Waldbott-Bassenheim Office . Spatially, this office comprised the former lords of Reifenberg and Kransberg, i.e. Cransberg, Pfaffenwiesbach, Wernborn, Reifenberg, Seelenberg, Schmitten and Arnoldshain.

The regulations with regard to the Waldbott-Bassenheim remaining rights were in a ducal-Nassau organizational edict of 11/19 June 1807 regulated. Waldbott-Bassenheim retained the church patronage of the Catholic churches (restricted by an obligation to present to the duke). The school teachers were appointed in the same way by the count after presentation. The count retained the law of lower and middle jurisdiction, including forest jurisdiction. Furthermore, the count's rights from tithes and comparable taxes remained. In addition, the count was the largest landowner in office.

In an effort to achieve further standardization in the Duchy of Nassau, the Nassau government submitted an offer to the Count by letter of September 11, 1823, which the Count accepted by letter of July 2, 1824. As a result, all rights in the case law were transferred to the ducal courts. However, the courts should continue to speak law in the name of the Duke of Nassau Counts Waldbott-Bassenheim. The count kept the patronage rights, the hunting license and the tithes and other real burdens. In return for his waiver, the count received an annual compensation pension.

During the March Revolution in 1848 , the privileges of the class were revoked and Count Hugo Waldbott von Bassenheim only left the civil law income from his property. The Waldbott-Bassenheim office ended with that. However, in the Reaction Era , these changes were reversed.

With contracts dated October 23, 1852 and February 1, 1853, Count von Bassenheim sold the lords of Kransberg and Reifenberg to the landowner JF Umber. In the opinion of the Nassau government, with this sale, the privileges under civil status were finally lost. In the following years, the Nassau domain treasury acquired the former Waldbott-Bassenheimer possessions.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt: Five village communities on the Hohe Taunus. A social statistical study of small-scale farming, domestic industry and folk life, Leipzig 1883 For the Kurmainzer pledge see page 19 of the 38 MB PDF file
  2. ↑ the double date results from the fact that the duke and the co-regent signed the edict at different times
  3. ↑ Harry Müzing, The mediatization of the former imperial directors and imperial knights in the Duchy of Nassau, Diss. 1980, pp. 108-109
  4. ↑ Harry Müzing, The mediatization of the former imperial directors and imperial knights in the Duchy of Nassau, Diss. 1980, pp. 156–157
  5. ^ Klaus Wagner: The 48 revolution in the Usinger country; In: Klaus Wagner (Hrsg.): Geliebtes Usinger Land - history and tales of our homeland, 1982, ISBN 3-923658-01-X , pp. 29–35
  6. ↑ Harry Müzing, The mediatization of the former imperial directors and imperial knights in the Duchy of Nassau, Diss. 1980, p. 158