Office Rennerod

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Map section from 1828 of the Rennerod office
The Rennerod office from 1816 in wine red within today's district area

The Rennerod office was a Nassau-Ottonian and finally a ducal Nassau office , the last seat of which was the place Rennerod . The office was designated as the office chair area until 1744 .

history

The office goes back to the medieval chair court (Winnen-Höhn court), a district court of the County of Diez for the parts of the county located on the Westerwald . After the court at Reckenforst near Dietkirchen, the court was the most important in the county. The only court in front of Winnen-Höhn was an independent Zentgraf documented in the 14th century . The Counts of Nassau-Dillenburg were able to assert themselves as heirs of the County of Diez until the 16th century . With the gradual transition to Roman law , the regional court lost its importance to the new offices.

With the division of the County of Nassau-Dillenburg in 1607, the court fell to the newly formed County of Nassau-Beilstein . The parish Willmenrod was separated from the court by a settlement with the county of Sayn and handed over to Sayn. The remainder of the regional court was combined with further possessions in Nassau-Beilstein to form the new office chair area with the official seat of Westernohe . This fell with the division of the county in June 1620 to the counts (from 1650 princes) of Nassau-Hadamar . After the house of Nassau-Hadamar died out in 1711, the principality was divided several times between the remaining Ottonian lines of the House of Nassau. The office chair area fell mainly to Nassau-Dillenburg and was expanded to include the district of the Elsoff district court .

By 1743 the house of Nassau-Diez (later Orange-Nassau) was able to unite all Nassau-Ottonian principalities and counties. It united the office chair area with other offices in 1744 to the Amtskollegium Hadamar. The Amtskollegium was dissolved again in 1775 and the office, with a changed seat, restored as Amt Rennerod . The districts of the Höhn and Rotenhain courts were transferred to the newly founded Marienberg Office in 1782 and the Elsoff Court to the Mengerskirchen Office .

In 1806 the office fell to the Grand Duchy of Berg . In the Grand Duchy of Berg, the offices were dissolved and cantons were established instead. The office fell mainly to the canton of Rennerod . Soon after the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the sovereignty of Orange-Nassau was restored. After it was returned to Orange-Nassau in 1813, the previous Orange offices, including the Rennerod office, were re-established in their old form. On May 31, 1815, Orange ceded the hereditary lands to Prussia . Prussia in turn exchanged territories with the Duchy of Nassau, so that the Rennerod office now became part of the Duchy.

When the office was reformed on July 1, 1816, the Rennerod office was reorganized. The places Stein, Neukirchen, Bretthausen, Willingen, Liebenscheid and Weißenberg were given to the Marienberg office . The Office Meudt received Weltersberg. The office Rennerod received Neunkirchen, Hüblingen, Rückershausen, Elsoff, Mittelhofen and Westernohe from the office Mengerskirchen.

After the annexation of Nassau by Prussia, the office became part of the Oberwesterwaldkreis .

Description of the office

In 1844 the office comprised the following locations:

place Registration in tomorrow Number of houses Residents
Rennerod 5,350 225 1,419
Berzhahn 1,334 80 441
Elsoff 1,829 101 570
Emmerichenhain 1,575 64 518
Gemünden 1,787 184 1,020
Gershasen (now part of Westerburg) 905 45 247
Half 690 25th 138
Hellenhahn-Schellenberg 2,724 97 553
Hergenroth 801 32 262
Homberg 823 33 259
Hüblingen 1,642 54 322
Irmtraut 1,769 73 521
Mittelhofen (now part of Elsoff) 1,633 63 354
Neunkirchen 2,514 83 505
Neustadt 1,071 36 218
Niederroßbach 1,689 56 367
Nister-Möhrendorf 1,163 44 254
Oberroßbach 1,117 41 307
Oberrod 2,205 81 440
Pottum 1,633 55 380
deer 2,953 73 489
Rückershausen 493 18th 108
Salzburg 905 31 212
Seck 3,638 117 717
Stahlhofen 809 19th 172
Waigandshain 1,609 34 215
Forest mills 1,137 56 290
Wengenroth (now part of Westerburg) 657 42 239
Westerburg 4,288 263 1,592
Western ear 3,172 93 537
Willmenrod 1,404 75 440
Win 1,186 46 284
Zehnhausen 1,142 39 216

Bailiffs

literature

  • Hellmuth Gensicke : State history of the Westerwald . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 .
  • Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau . Beyerle, Wiesbaden 1843.
  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Ground plan for German administrative history 1815–1945, 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 173–174
  • Hellmuth Gensicke: court and parish Rennerod; in Nassauische Annalen , 1984, pp. 239-243