Wallenfels Office

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Today's town hall of the city of Wallenfels , the former administrative seat of the office
The territory of the bishopric of Bamberg with the Wallenfels office in the far northeast

The Wallenfels Office was an administrative area of ​​the Bamberg Monastery , an imperial territory in the Holy Roman Empire . The Bamberg Monastery, which was assigned to the Franconian Empire , was a clerical principality that existed until 1802.

geography

The office in the northeast of the Bamberg dominion was one of the smaller high estates offices. It was located in the eastern area of ​​a large Bamberg exclave , the main town of which was the city of Kronach . Its neighboring areas in Bamberg belonged to the offices of Kronach , Nordhalben , Stadtsteinach and Wartenfels . Neighboring territories belonging to the Principality of Bayreuth were the Lichtenberg Office in the northeast and the Seibelsdorf Office in the southwest. In addition, controlled areas marginalized even by direct imperial nobility to the office area, most notably the the Canton mountains of the Frankish knights circle belonging domination Wildenstein .

history

After the counts of Andechs died out in 1248, the area of ​​what would later become the Wallenfels office came into the possession of the Bamberg Monastery as a fallen fief . The establishment of the Wallenfels office then probably took place around 1330.

structure

The administration of the Wallenfels Office consisted of a Bailiwick Office , a Tax Office and a Central Office .

Official seat

The administrative seat of the office was from the beginning in today's city of Wallenfels , which at that time was still a market town .

Office administration

The office management was formed by a bailiff , who also acted as central judge and tax collector . The official staff also included a clerk , a servant and a mayor each in Dörnach, Geuser, Haid, Neuengrün, Schnaid, Wellesberg and Wolfersgrün. The administrative seat of the office was in the market town of Wallenfels .

Bailiwick Office

The Vogteiamt Wallenfels was one of the 54  Vogteiamts of the Bishopric Bamberg. Its bailiwick district comprised the following village markings and localities:

Dörnach , Forstloh , Geuser , Haid , Hammer , Heckenberg (abandoned place), Kirchbühl (abandoned site, disputed with the Margravial-Bavarian office of Seibelsdorf ), Kleinzeyern , Leutnitzhof (abandoned site), Neuengrün , Schlegelhaid , Schnaid , Schnappenhammer , Wallenfels (the The Bamberg bishop ruled the market place, this was exercised by the senior magistrate von Kronach; the market Wallenfels had only limited rights), Wellesberg and Wolfersgrün .

Centamt

The Wallenfels Centers Office was one of the 29 Centers offices of the Bamberg Monastery. Its high court district comprised the following village markings and localities:

Dörnach, Forstloh, Geuser, Haid, Hammer, Heckenberg, Kirchbühl (disputed with the margravial Bavarian office of Seibelsdorf), Kleinzeyern, Leutnitzhof, Neuengrün, Schlegelhaid, Schnaid, Schnappenhammer, Wallenfels, Wellesberg and Wolfersgrün.

Tax office

The Wallenfels Tax Office was one of the 46 tax offices of the Bamberg Monastery. The spatial sphere of activity of the tax office was congruent with that of the Wallenfelser Vogteiamt.

The economic importance of the office for the bishopric of Bamberg was relatively low and was therefore listed as Amt I class (out of 5). The tax revenue of the tax office averaged 968 during the term of office of Peter Philipp von Dernbach (1672–1683) and 638 Franconian guilders per year during the term of office of Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg (1683–1693) .

Mining Authority

The mining law in the Wallenfels office was of economic importance. Initially the caste office was responsible for this. A separate mining office was set up in the second half of the 18th century . From 1796 it was subordinate to the Upper Mining College.

literature

  • Helmut Demattio: Kronach - The Altlandkreis (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . I, 32). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7696-9698-0 .
  • Erich Freiherr von Guttenberg, Hanns Hubert Hoffmann: Stadtsteinach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1953 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Hermann Caspary: State, finance, economy and army in the bishopric of Bamberg (1672 - 1693) . Self-published by the Historisches Verein Bamberg, Bamberg 1976, ISBN 3-87735-083-6 .
  • Claus Fackler: Stiftsadel and spiritual territories 1670–1803 . Eos Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8306-7268-5 .
  • Johann Georg Prändel: Containing the Palatinate Province in Swabia, the two principalities of Bamberg and Würzburg, and the Duchy of Berg. In: Earth description of the entire Palatinate Bavarian possessions: with constant reference to topography, history, physical condition, agriculture and state economy. Uhlmannsche Buchhandlung, Amberg 1806.
  • Hochstift Bamberg (Ed.): Bamberg Court State and State Calendar for the year 1796 . Bamberg 1796.
  • Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 .
  • Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (Ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 .

Web links

Commons : Amt Wallenfels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 182 .
  2. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 32 .
  3. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . "Village and community rule and Vogteirechte 1792" card supplement .
  4. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Supplement to the “Hochgerichtsbezirke 1792” map .
  5. ↑ Stadtsteinach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Supplement to the “Hochgerichtkarte” ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on May 4, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Stadtsteinach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 54 ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on May 4, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 183 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Kronach - The Altland district . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 447 .
  9. ↑ Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 192 .
  10. ^ A b c Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , p. 712 .
  11. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 467 .
  12. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 471 .
  13. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 473 .
  14. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 476 .
  15. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 477 .
  16. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 478 .
  17. ↑ a b c d Kronach - The Altland district . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 479 .
  18. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 489 .
  19. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 492 .
  20. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 504 .
  21. ↑ a b c d Kronach - The Altland district . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 506 .
  22. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 517 .
  23. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 518 .
  24. ↑ a b Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 521 .
  25. ↑ Stadtsteinach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 52 ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on May 4, 2020]).
  26. ↑ Hermann Caspary: State, finance, economy and army in the Hochstift Bamberg: (1672 - 1693), 1976, ISBN 3877350836 , p. 377.

Coordinates: 50 °  N , 11 °  E