Wanfried Office

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The Wanfried Office was a territorial administrative unit of the Landgraviate of Hesse and from 1567 of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel . From 1627 to 1667 it belonged to the landgrave branch line of Hessen-Rotenburg , the so-called "Rotenburger Quart". After that it belonged to the branch line of Hessen-Wanfried and after its extinction from 1755 back to Hessen-Rotenburg. State sovereignty over the office was always held by the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel.

Until the administrative and territorial reform of the electorate of Hesse in 1821 and its related resolution was formed as official spatial reference point for claiming nationalistic taxes and labor services , for police , judiciary and military service .

Geographical location

The area of ​​the Wanfried Office was on the edge of the north Hessian mountains between Schlierbachswald and Wanfrieder Werrahöhen . It consisted of two parts. The main part with Wanfried was in the valley of the Werra and was on the right bank except for Völkershausen. The southern part of the office with Weißenborn and Rambach was in the Schlierbachswald and was separated from Wanfried by a small part of the Eschwege office. The office was located on the eastern edge of the Landgraviate of Hesse and was only connected to it in the west. Its territory largely enclosed the place Großburschla, which belonged to the Ganerbschaft Treffurt .

The official area is now in the northeast of the state of Hesse and belongs to the places Wanfried and Weißenborn (Hesse) in the Werra-Meißner district . The Eichsfeld town Döringsdorf in the north of the office is now part of the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

The territory of the office bordered:

Associated places

history

In 1306, Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse bought the towns of Wanfried and Frieda and some Eichsfeld villages from the Thuringian Landgrave . After armed conflicts with the neighboring lords of Treffurt over the property of Wanfried, the victorious Hessian Landgrave Heinrich II sought after 1336 to tie the new, isolated possessions to his territory by means of a land bridge. For this purpose he acquired in 1365 from the Lords of Völkershausen their court with the villages Altenburschla, Heldra, Helderbach, Rambach and Weißenborn. Since then, in addition to Wanfried itself, the district of Zent Wanfried has included the six villages of the Völkershausen court and the Eichsfeld town of Döringsdorf .

Before Wanfried finally passed to the Hessian landgraves, there were renewed conflicts with neighboring Thuringia in the course of the Star Wars at the end of the 14th century. After the estate of the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided, the Wanfried district had belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel from 1567 .

The "Amt Wanfried" mentioned in 1585 comprised the same villages as the Zent, ​​but Völkershausen and Döringsdorf were missing. Since then, Völkershausen on the left bank of the Werra has belonged to the neighboring Hessian office of Eschwege . Döringsdorf exchanged the Landgraves of Hesse in 1583 for the Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Wolfgang von Dalberg . The village was assigned to the office of Bischofstein in Eichsfeld in Mainz .

From 1627 Wanfried, which was granted town charter by Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel in 1608 , and the Wanfried office belonged to the domain of the partly sovereign Landgraviate of Hessen-Rotenburg (Rotenburger Quart), and from 1667 to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Wanfried , which this year was separated from Hesse- Rotenburg split off. However, Hessen-Kassel retained sovereignty in both principalities. After the Hessen-Wanfried line was extinguished, the area fell back to Hessen-Rotenburg in 1755.

During the French occupation, the official area belonged to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 and was divided into three parts. The places to the right of the Werra were assigned to the Heiligenstadt district in the Harz department and assigned to the cantons of Wanfried (Wanfried and Altenburschla) and Treffurt (Heldra and Wüstung Helderbach). The towns of Weißenborn and Rambach to the left of the Werra came to the canton of Aue in the Eschwege district of the Werra department .

After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1813, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel, now known as the Electorate of Hesse , was restored with its previous administrative structure. The Hessian office of Wanfried within the Landgraviate of Hessen-Rotenburg existed until 1821 and was then assigned to the Eschwege district in the course of the Hessian administrative reform .

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