Steinau Office

The office Steinau was since 1278 a fief of the abbey of Fulda to the rule , later county Hanau , from 1458: county Hanau-Münzenberg . It probably comes from the dowry of Elisabeth von Rieneck , which she brought into her marriage to Ulrich I. von Hanau.

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.

meaning

As part of the Hanau-Münzenberg part of the County of Hanau , the Steinau Office was the center of the administration of the so-called Upper County . It was often given as a widow's seat to the widows of Hanau Counts, who then resided at Steinau Castle in the town of the same name, Steinau an der Straße . With the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736 the office fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel , along with the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg . Philipp Wilhelm Grimm , father of the Brothers Grimm , was a bailiff , i.e. administrative manager, of the office in the 18th century . The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel became the Electorate of Hesse in 1803 . During the Napoleonic period, the office was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807–1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, through which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the territory of the former office belonged to the district of Schlüchtern . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the German-Austrian War and became part of Hesse after the Second World War . With the Hessian territorial reform , the former Schlüchtern district was added to the Main-Kinzig district in 1974.

Components

Bremenfeld ( desert )
Hunsrück
Neuendorf (desert)
Niederdorf (desert)
Saxony (desert)
Silk red
Steinau

Population development

1632: 275 families
1707: 233 families
1754: 1,470 inhabitants

literature

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. 799.
Ernst Hartmann: History of the city and the office Steinau an der Straße . Steinau 1971.
Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Marburg 1926.

Individual evidence

↑ In the years 1632, 1707 and 1754 the number of inhabitants in the county of Hanau was determined. The figures are reproduced here after Erhard Bus: The consequences of the great war - the west of the county of Hanau-Munzenberg after the Peace of Westphalia . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 : The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 45 (2011), ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 , pp. 277-320 (289ff.)

[1] In the years 1632, 1707 and 1754 the number of inhabitants in the county of Hanau was determined. The figures are reproduced here after Erhard Bus: The consequences of the great war - the west of the county of Hanau-Munzenberg after the Peace of Westphalia . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 : The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 45 (2011), ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 , pp. 277-320 (289ff.)