Trier Office

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The Trier office was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier with its seat in Trier, which existed from the 14th century to the end of the 18th century .

history

Since 902 the Archbishops of Trier were also the secular lords of their residence city. In that year King Ludwig IV transferred the sovereign rights, including the right to mint, tribute and customs, to Bishop Radbod von Trier . In the 14th century, an office organization was established in the Fulda monastery. Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg formed an administrative office based on the French model. In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, the Trier office is one of the 59 offices in the electoral state. At the head of the office of the governor of the duties of a stand bailiff perceived.

The office included at the end of the HRR Fausenburg , Geishof , Löwenbrücken , Marcusberger-Hof , Olewig -Hof, Pallien , Rockeskiel , Trier and Trimmelter-Hof .

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 Arrondissement de Trier in the Département de la Sarre . As a result of the Congress of Vienna , the official territory came to Prussia in 1815 . The district of Trier was formed from the Arrondissement de Trier .

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. 2 volumes, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 1109–1114.
  • Jacob Marx : History of the Archbishopric Trier . Linz, Trier 1858, p. 253 ( books.google.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. 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