Office Zell

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The Amt of Zell was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier that existed from the 14th to the end of the 18th century . In the 18th century it was subordinate to the Oberamt Zell .

history

From 1332 Zell was an electoral city. In a list commissioned by Elector Johann II of Baden in 1498, the office of Zell is one of 59 offices in the Electorate of Trier.

In 1780 the Baldeneck office was dissolved and assigned to the Zell office.

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794. In the French era , the area belonged to the canton of Zell .

scope

At the end of the HRR , the office consisted of:

Official seat

The bailiff was based in the former Kurtrier castle house in Zell, which was built in 1532 as a three-storey half-timbered / solid building. The stairs are marked with the year of construction, a three-storey solid building was added on the Moselle side in the 16th century. The building at Balduinstrasse 37 is a listed building .

See also

literature

  • Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old Reich: Edition and commentary on the Kurtrier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, Volume 1, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 1203-1322.
  • Of the High Ore Monastery and Electorate Trier Court, State and State Calendar, 1787, pp. 95, 158, digitized .

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


Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '30.2 "  N , 7 ° 10' 54.7"  E