Wittlich Office

The Wittlich office was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier that existed from the 14th century to 1794 .

history

In the 14th century, an office organization was established in Kurtrier. Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg formed an administrative office based on the French model. At the head of the offices there was now a bailiff . This formation of offices was not a single act, but was carried out in a multitude of individual steps, taking into account the local characteristics. During Baldwin's term of office, the Neuerburg office (near Wittlich) is one of 30 offices that were mentioned in a document. In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, the Wittlich office is one of 59 named offices.

Archbishop Johann VI. (1556–1567) ordered a four-year land tax on November 26, 1556 with the consent of the state estates in Koblenz. The tax amounted to 3.5 guilders per 1000 guilders of wealth. On July 20, 1563, he requested reports from all offices that should provide information about the places and the taxpayers there. In the Wittlich office there were then the following fireplaces in the following locations:

place	Fire pits	annotation
City of Wittlich	186
Urtzigh	84
Wave	73
Maringen and Noviandt	88
Emmell , Munster and Rensport	125
Wintrich and Felzen	131
Kestenn and Minheim	94
Lisura	93
Hundtheim , Grinckhoff and Wißbelscheit	71
Mehrlittigh and Carll	58
Altrich , Büscheit , Hart and Müller zu Rode	38
Neuerburg	30th
Dorff	11
Olkenbach and Heintzerrode	21st
Bumagen , Bierlingen and Büllingen	23
Lessröer and Walholtz	22nd
River pach	12
Lüxem	17th	Highness shared with the Lords of Keyll
plates		The basic jurisdiction was disputed between St. Irminen and Trier

In 1684 the Udenesch office was incorporated into the Wittlich office and ceased to exist as an independent unit.

The official description from 1786 names 32 communities with 42 localities, 4 monasteries, 12 special farms and 31 mills as components of the office. These were: Altrich , Belingen , Berlingen , Bombogen , Büscheit , Carl , Crames , Dorff , Dürbach , Emmel , Esch , Ferres , Filzen , Flusbach , Groslittgen , Brille , Hontheim , Kesten , Kirchhof , Krinkhof , Lieser , Luxem , Maringen , Minderlittgen , Minheim , Müster , Musweiler , Neuerburg , Noviand , Olckenbach , Piesport , Platten , Pollbach , Rensport , Riwenich , Salmenror , Sehlem , Urzig , Vailz and 2 mills, Wehlen , Wengenror , Wintrich , Wischpett , Wittlich and Wittlicher mills.

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794.

See also

• List of offices in the Electorate of 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, Mainz 2008, Volume 2, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 1149-1201.
• Peter Brommer: Kurtrier's offices. Manorial rule, jurisdiction, taxation and residents. Edition of the so-called fire book from 1563 . Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Trier 2003, ISBN 3-929135-40-X , p. 245 ff. ( Online at dilibri.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