Office wind corners

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The office Windecken was an office of the rule and later county of 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.

Geographical location

The office was in the southern Wetterau and bordered southwest on the also Hanau office Büchertal . The main town was Windecken . The castle Windecken was to the 15th century, the family seat of the Lords and Counts of Hanau and later a widow's residence Hanauer countesses. Thus the office together with the office Büchertal formed the central property of the lords and counts of Hanau .

history

Since 1262 Ostheim and Windecken, which were later to become part of the Windecken office, were given to the lords and counts of Hanau as a fiefdom of the Bamberg diocese .

When the country was divided in 1458, the Windecken office came to the County of Hanau-Munzenberg . After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the County of Hanau-Münzenberg - and with it the Office of Windecken - fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel in 1736 , which 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. During the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, in the course of which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the Windecken office was added to the Hanau district. The old offices were downgraded to judicial offices (judicial districts). The Windecken Justice Office existed as the district court district of Windecken until 1970. With the dissolution of the district court, Windecken lost its last central function for the region. In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the German-Austrian War and became part of Hesse after the Second World War . The district of Hanau was incorporated into the Main-Kinzig district in the Hessian regional reform in 1974 .

Components

Markings of the office Windecken

The Hanau / Hessian third at Burg-Graefenrode was also administered by the Windecken office until 1806.

Population development

  • 1632: 467 families
  • 1707: 494 families
  • 1754: 682 families = 2932 inhabitants
  • 1821: 4668 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. 775ff.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen. Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 14, 1926 p. 520.
  • Peter Gbiorczyk, The development of the rural school system in the County of Hanau from the Reformation to 1736. The offices of Büchertal and Windecken, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8440-0331-4
  • Peter Gbiorczyk: The two reformations in rural communities in the county of Hanau-Munzenberg (1519-1642). The offices of Büchertal and Windecken . Shaker, Düren 2020. ISBN 978-3-8440-6803-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burg-Graefenrode, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ 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.)
  3. ^ Johann Peter Eyring: The district of Hanau . In: Georg-Wilhelm Hanna (arrangement): The district of Hanau and its district administrators . Ed .: Kreissparkasse Hanau . Hanau 1989, p. 7.