St. Wendel Office

The office of St. Wendel was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier with its seat in St. Wendel, which existed from 1326 to the end of the 18th century .

history

In 1323/28 the Archbishop of Trier acquired the castle and village of St. Wendel. With the acquisition of St. Wendels by Baldwin, the settlement gradually developed into a medieval town. First Kurtrier bailiff (Viscount) of the Office St. Wendel was Jacob (Jacomin) of Montclair (Monkler). This made the St. Wendel office one of 30 offices mentioned in a document during Baldwin's time in office.

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 St. Wendel office there were fire pits in the following places:

Locality	Number fire pits
City of St. Wendel	97
Urweiller	24
Altzvassen	15th
Widths	8th
Niderweiller	12
Baltersweiler	7th
Mauschbach	8th
Fearful	11
Spicksheell (today desert ) and Pintzweyller	4th
Hoeffeldt	16
Rossbergh	8th
Gewiller	3
Reydtscheytt	11
Thoele	25 (The Theley High Court was bishopric (Lothringen / Trier), 15 fireplaces were Trierisch)
Moßbergh (jurisdiction in Pfalz-Zweibrücken)	3
Wolfferswiller (high jurisdiction in Pfalz-Zweibrücken)	1
Lebach (The high court of Lebach was a trio)	27
Subach (High Court Lebach)	17th
Lantzweiller (High Court Lebach)	8th
Rimelbach (High Court Lebach)	3
Jabach (High Court Lebach)	3
Elections (High Court Lebach)	3
Zum Hahn (High Court Lebach)	3

In 1616 the Schultheißerei Mittelreidenbach came to Kurtrier as a fallen fief and was assigned to the St. Wendel office. In 1799 she was assigned to the Oberstein office. In 1788 there was an exchange contract between Kurtrier and France. As a result, the St. Wendel Office received the Imsbacher Hof and the Lorraine portion of the Theley High Court. In the same year, the Hasborn dairy was removed from the Grimburg office and placed under the St. Wendel office.

In 1784 the office consisted of the following localities:

• High Court St. Wendel: Alzfassen , Baltersweiler , Bornerhof , Breiten, Eisweiler , Fursweiler , Gehweiler , Heisterberg , Hohfeld , Mauschbach , Pinsweiler , Reitscheid , Roschberg , St. Wendel and Urweiler
• Hasborn dairy: Dautweiler and Hasborn
• Meierei Hüttigweiler: Hüttigweiler and Rasweiler
• Imsbach farm
• Hof Mettnich: Mettnich and Mühlfeld
• High Court Lebach: Greinhof, Hahn, Jabach, Landsweiler, Lebach, Motte Castle, Niedersaubach, Rümmelbach and Wahlen.
• High Court Theley: Thelei

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794. In the French era , the area belonged to the canton of Sankt Wendel in the Département de la Sarre .

Office building

Office building

The Kurtriersche Amtshaus with today's address at Schloßstraße 7 was built in 1740 by bailiff Franz Ernst d'Hame as a free-standing, three-storey plastered building with robust corner blocks. Today it is used as the town hall and is a listed building . Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 2.2 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 11.9"  E

Bailiffs

• Jacob (Jacomin) of Montclair (Monkler) (1331, 1334)
• Philipp von Weiskirchen (1332-1335)
• Johann vom Steyn (1335-1360)
• Sygfried vom Steyne (1364–1405)
• Rudolf von Sassenhausen (1408)
• Philip of Ulmen (1413-1430)
• Junker Konz Mauchenheimer of Zweibrücken (- 1439)
• Siegmond Mauchenheimer from Zweibrücken [1440]
• Weirich von Daun zu Oberstein (1452-1458) (Weirich von Daun zu Oberstein had acquired the office as a pledge during this time)
• Johann and Gerhard Wildgrafen zu Daun and Kirberg, Rheingrafen zum Stein (1458–1469)
• Heinrich von Sötern (1469–)
• Johann von Hane called Boeffgin (1472–)
• Walther von Franken (1477–1483)
• Peter Glock from Oberstein (1484–)
• Clais von Gersbach (1508–)
• Emmerich von Diez
• Junker Gerhard Mull of the Neuerburg [1541]
• Heinrich von Hagen, Lord of Motten (1544–1546)
• Caspar von Hagen on the Motten (1546–1551)
• Philipp von Homburg (1552–1579)
• Hermann Quadt von Landskron (1580–1598)
• Conrad von Soetern (1599–1623)
• Johann Reinhard von Soetern (1624–1650)
• Wolf Heinrich Freiherr von Stein-Kallenfels (1653–)
• Johann d'Hame (around 1660–1689)
• Damien Hartard d'Hame (1689-1718)
• Franz Ernst von Hame (1718–1769)
• Damien Joseph von Hame (1769–1779)
• Franz Richard Maria Joseph Gattermann (1779–1797)
• Johann Jakob Nalbach (1797–1798)

literature

• Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old Reich: Edition and commentary on the Electoral Trier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790 , Mainz 2008, Volume 1, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 1047-1095.
• 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. 573 ff. ( Online at dilibri.de)
• Hans-Klaus Schmitt: The officials of the Kurtrier office of St. Wendel; from: Heimatbuch des Landkreis St. Wendel 1975/76, p. 14 ff., digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the person cf. the "Lombards" of the same name mentioned in the year 1331 by Wolfgang Jungandreas : Historical lexicon of settlement and field names in the Moselle region ( series of publications on Trier national history and folklore 8). Trier 1962/63, p. 692.
2. ↑ 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