Office Zeil

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The Zeil office (at the time also Zeyl office , originally Schmachtenberg office ) was an office of the Bamberg monastery .

history

The beginnings of the Bamberg rule lay in the acquisition of the Curtis Zilin estate from Michelsberg Monastery between 1024 and 1040, see Zeil am Main # The beginnings as a manorial large farm . Extensive property and the central court belonged to the farm . The basis of the rule of Bamberg in the area, the castle Zeil , the castle Schmachtenberg and the Castle Ebersberg . As part of the territorialization , the Schmachtenberg Office (later the Zeil Office) and the Ebersberg Office emerged from these possessions. Amt Ebersberg was later canceled and merged with Amt Zeil and Amt Theres of the Theres Monastery .

The Schmachtenberg office consisted of Zeil, Augsfeld, Krum , Bischofsheim, Schönbach , Schmachtenberg, Ziegelanger and Steinbach.

The Ebersberg office included Untertheres (Theres monastery), Dampfach (the Bamberg rights were exchanged to Würzburg), Steinsfeld (Theres monastery), Wonfurt (Fuchs von Bimbach), Westheim (ganerbisch), Knetzgau, Sand, Zell and Oberschleichach (Würzburg).

The offices were pledged several times. On February 20, 1452, Bishop Anton von Rotenhan decided that after the resignation of the offices due to the death of Jorgs von Leonstein, no further pledging was allowed.

These offices lay like a wedge between the Würzburg offices of Haßfurt and Eltmann . Correspondingly, there were conflicts between the two monasteries over various rights, which were resolved in several contracts. The contract to Zeil from August 31st / 7th September 1587 regulated z. B. the cent border between the Cent Zeil and Cent Haßfurt. Particularly controversial were the claims to Knetzgau , which were not settled until 1719 (in terms of an arbitration award from 1389). After that, the Bailiwick of Bamberg belonged, but Würzburg was entitled to jurisdiction over one cent. At the end of the process, the Zeil office was a Bamberg exclave that was completely enclosed by the Würzburg area.

At the end of the HRR there were 54 bailiwick offices in the Bamberg monastery, headed by a bailiff . The tasks of these bailiwick offices were both administrative tasks and the exercise of the lower jurisdiction . The Zeil office was one of these 54 bailiwick offices. It was also the tax office, so it was responsible for collecting taxes. The administration of the chamber goods and fiefs was carried out by the Zeil office as a caste office.

The economic importance of the office for the bishopric of Bamberg was average and was therefore listed as Amt II class (out of 5). The tax revenue of the tax office averaged in the term of office of Peter Philipp von Dernbach (1672-1683) 2974 and in the term of office of Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg (1683-1693) 2764 Franconian guilders per year.

The main court

The Bambergian Cent Zeil included the places Zeil, Schmachtenberg, Ziegelanger and Zell. The cent justice over Steinbach was disputed. In a recess with the Würzburg monastery in 1685, this was awarded to Bamberg.

Oberamt

The Zeil office was also one of the last 18 senior offices of the Hochstift. This was not associated with any higher authority than other offices. In addition to the bailiff, there was also an upper bailiff from the local aristocracy in the upper offices. In the case of Nursing Veldenstein, the Rotenhan family typically provided this chief bailiff. The office itself was largely a sinecure .

scope

At the end of the HRR , the following places belonged to the office: Augsfeld , Bischofsheim , Knetzgau , Lembach , Roßstadt , Sand , Schmachtenberg , Staffelbach , Steinbach , Vieret , Wörth , Zell , Zeil and Ziegelanger .

resolution

With the transfer of the bishopric Bamberg to Kurpfalz-Bayern due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the office was dissolved in 1803 and assigned to the district court of the older order district court Haßfurt . This was not subordinate to the Bamberg regional directorate, but to the Würzburg regional directorate.

Personalities

Senior officials

literature

  • Alexander Tittmann: Haßfurt: the former district - Historical Atlas of Bavaria (HAB), 2002, ISBN 9783769668513 , pp. 137–146, 240–242, 296, 422 ff., 485 digitized
  • Bamberg court calendar: for the year ... 1799, p. 184 ff., Digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Caspary: State, finance, economy and army in the Hochstift Bamberg: (1672 - 1693), 1976, ISBN 3877350836 , p. 377.
  2. ↑ Claus Fackler: Stiftsadel and Geistliche Territorien 1670-1803, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8306-7268-5 , pp. 87, 146, 169.
  3. ↑ Bamberg court calendar: for the year ... 1799, p. 184