Windeck Office

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Windeck Office 1789

The Windeck Office was a former administrative area of ​​the Duchy of Berg that had existed since 1250 . Its administrative center was initially Windeck Castle .

history

From 1250 the administrative seat was Windeck Castle . For office included the parishes Much , Dattenfeld , Waldbröl , Morsbach , Rosbach and Leuscheid .

The Windeck office bordered the offices of Steinbach and Blankenberg in the west and was divided into two areas by the imperial rule of Homburg . Alone in the north was the parish of Much , in the east were the parishes of Dattenfeld , Waldbröl , Morsbach , Rosbach and Leuscheid and the Reichshof Eckenhagen .

The mathematician Erich Philipp Ploennies wrote in his work Topographia Ducatus Montani 1715 through the Office Windeck: "This Ambt, although in it more partly Haber wächßt, however, is good, boring sought in hardworking and cattle breeding and trade the lack to ersezzen the Leut." ( P. 102)

Johann Adolph Saur , from 1675 to 1705 mayor in Much, bought in 1684 Burg Overbach and was 1694-1700 bailiff of the office Windeck. The officials from Mirbach and von Gaugreben named below followed. The real administrators, however, were the Landdinger Johann Andreas Paschalis Joesten (1774 to 1796) and his brother Heinrich Joseph Joesten until 1796. In addition to the High Court, the Windeck Office had three lower courts in Much, Eckenhagen and Morsbach. In 1806 there was a restructuring.

Bailiffs

The following officials are documented:

  • 1260: Adolf von Wiehl, advocatus de Wintecgin
  • 1313: Johann Quad, advocatus de Windechke
  • 1356: Heinrich von Grafschaft, amptman at Windecke
  • 1361: Gerhard (the younger) von Waldenburg called Schenkern, officiatus in Windecke
  • 1362–1363: Adolf von Grafschaft, amptman zo Windecke
  • 1388: Wilhelm Stael von Holstein, bailiff at Windeck
  • 1641: Bertram von Nesselrode (according to sovereign acts)
  • 1694-1700: Johann Adolph Saur
  • 1776–1794: Baron Gerhard Johann Wilhelm von Mirbach
  • until 1806: Moritz Freiherr von Graugreben

See also

Web links

literature

  • Karl Schröder: Between the French Revolution and Prussia's Gloria , Heimatverein Eitorf, 1989.
  • Albrecht Brendler: On the way to the territory. Administrative structure and office holder of the County of Berg 1225–1380 . Inaugural dissertation, Bonn 2015, pp. 224–241.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brendler (2015), p. 241.
  2. ↑ Renate Leffers: The neutrality policy of Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm as Duke of Jülich-Berg in the period 1636–1643 , Bergische Forschungen, Volume VIII, Neustadt an der Aisch 1971, p. 94.