Schmidtburg Office
The Schmidtburg office was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier that existed from the 14th century to 1794 .
history
The core of the later office was the Schmidtburg . The castle was one of the ancestral castles of the Wildgraves. In 1258 and 1277 the property was divided and several lines were formed. Personal disputes between the Counts of the Schmidtburg and Kyrburg lines led to the Schmidtburg being entrusted to the Elector and Archbishop Balduin von Trier . In 1324 Wilgraf Heinrich entrusted the Schmidtburgund Castle to the Wildgraves in 1329, the courts in Rhaunen and Hausen Trier to fief. After the Schmidtburg line died out in 1330, this castle and office moved in as a settled fiefdom. These state castles were the core of the organization of the Archbishopric of Trier in the High Middle Ages. They secured the power of the archbishopric and were directed by burgraves . In the 14th century an organization of offices was established. Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg formed an administrative office based on the French model. At the head of the offices there was now a bailiff . This formation of offices was not a single act, but was carried out in a multitude of individual steps, taking into account the local characteristics. During Baldwin's tenure, the Schmidtburg office is one of 30 offices that were mentioned in a document. In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, the Schmidtburg office is one of 59 named offices.
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 Schmidtburg office there were then the following fireplaces in the following places:
place | Trier fireplaces | Foreign fireplaces | annotation |
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Bundenbach | 11 | 5 1/2 | |
Schneppenbach | 9 | 4th | Zweiherrisch (Trier / von Wiltberg) |
Pronschytt | 6th | 4th | Zweiherrisch (Trier / von Wiltberg) |
Schlierstat | 5 | all other | State sovereignty was held by the tri-lordly office of Kirchberg , not Trier |
Rhaunen | 11 | 40 | Zweiherrisch (1/4 Trier / 3/4 Rheingrafen von Dhaun) |
Sulzbach | 2 | 19th | Zweiherrisch (Trier / von Metzenhausen) |
Stybshausen | 1 | 17th | Zweiherrisch (1/4 Trier) |
Leufersweyler | 0 | 33 | Vierherrisch (1/4 Trier) |
Schweyerbach | 0 | 14th | Zweiherrisch (1/4 Trier / 3/4 Rheingrafen von Dhaun) |
Sorschytt | 0 | 14th | Zweiherrisch (1/4 Trier / 3/4 Rheingrafen von Dhaun) |
Veyterßbach | 0 | 15th | Zweiherrisch (1/4 Trier / 3/4 Rheingrafen von Dhaun) |
Upper brain | 0 | 16 | Zweiherrisch (1/4 Trier / 3/4 Rheingrafen von Dhaun) |
Lindenschytt | 0 | 15th | |
Gosenrot | 0 | 20th | |
Kromenaw | 0 | 10 | Zweiherrisch (1/4 Trier / 3/4 Rheingrafen von Dhaun) |
Woppenroth | 0 | 22nd | |
Hausen | 0 | 12 | |
Bollenbach | 0 | 15th |
In the official description of 1785 the following were named as official places: Bundenbach, Bruschied, Sulzbach, Schli Various, the high court of Rhaunen (Rhaunen, Weitersbach, Krummenau, Oberkirn, Stipshausen, Bollenbach, Schwerbach, Sulzbach), Hottenbach, Hollertshausen and Laufershausen.
With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794.
See also
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 2, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 1097-1108.
- Peter Brommer: Kurtrier's offices. 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. 401 ff. ( Online at dilibri.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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