Office Ziegenhain

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The Amt Ziegenhain was an administrative and judicial district of the County of Ziegenhain , the Landgraviate of Hesse , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and the Electorate of Hesse from the 14th century to 1821 .

history

The starting point for the formation of the office in Ziegenhain was the court on the Wasen . In the 14th century, an official structure emerged as part of territorialization . It is unclear exactly when the locations were distributed among the offices of the County of Ziegenhain . In 1367 the following places are mentioned as belonging to the Ziegenhain office: Ziegenhain, Loshausen , Zella , Gungelshausen , Heckershausen (desert), Merzhausen , Niederfischbach (desert), Willingshausen , Seitzenrode (desert), Oberwiera (desert), Mittelwiera (desert), Niederwiera ( Wüstung) Wasenberg , Emelshausen (Wüstung) Warmer Hausen (Wüstung) Wollertshausen (Wüstung) Oberleimbach (Wüstung) Mittelleimbach (Wüstung), Münch Leimbach (Wüstung) Ascherode , Niedergrenzebach , Rörshain , Rommershausen , Dittershausen , Breitenbach (Wüstung) Biedenbach (desert), Mengsberg , the Hof zu Ransbach and the Hof Rengershausen as well as places that were already deserted in 1367. They were Buchholz, Dudenrod, Ellnrod, Fronrod, Gansau, Geroldsrode, Lindenborn, Richardshain, Roppershain, Schottenrode, Steinbühl, Trunderrode, Trutzhain, Wegebach and Wernersdorf.

The largest part of the official area was old Ziegenhain property. In addition, the Hersfeld Abbey was an important owner. However, this was largely lost to the abbey through sales and inheritance. Ziegenhain acquired Schönborn in 1436 and assigned it to the Ziegenhain office. When the Counts of Ziegenhain died out in 1450, the office became part of the Landgraviate of Hesse. In the middle of the 16th century, the court for Landsburg and the Schwarzenborn office came to the Ziegenhain office. The background was the expansion of the Ziegenhain water fortress . A centralization of the administration was connected with this. From this point on, Hauptmann von Ziegenhain was the chief official of the extended office.

In 1806 Hessen-Kassel was occupied by the French and part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . The Ziegenhain office was dissolved. Instead, based on the French model, the Werra department , the Hersfeld district and the Ziegenhain canton were formed. With the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Kurhessen was rebuilt in 1813. It now consisted of: Ziegenhain, Allendorf an der Landsburg , Ascherode, Dittershausen , Florshain , Gungelshausen, the Klinkenmühle, Leimbach . Lender Scheid , Loshausen , Mengsberg, Merzhausen, Michel Berg , Niedergrenzebach, Obergrenzebach , Ransbach, courtyard ring mill, Rommershausen, Rommershausen , Rörshain, the Schaafhof, Schönborn, Siebert Hausen , Steina , Wasenberg, Wiera , the Know mill, Willingshausen and Zella. In addition there was the Frielendorf court with Frielendorf , Ebersdorf , Gebersdorf , Lanertshausen , Leimsfeld , Linsingen , Seigertshausen , Spieskappel and Todenhausen .

In Kurhessen, jurisdiction was separated from administration in 1821/22 . The Ziegenhain office was dissolved. Its administrative tasks went to the new district of Ziegenhain , the judiciary was taken over by the Ziegenhain judicial office .

Officer

Bailiffs

  • Hans von Dörnberg the Elder Ä. (1456-1460)
  • Hans von Dörnberg the Elder J. (1496-1499)
  • Caspar Friedrich von Dallwig (1671)
  • Reinhard von Dallwig (1710)

Commanders of the Ziegenhain Fortress

Captains

  • Heinz von Lüder (1537–1559)
  • Reinhard Schenck (1560–1574)
  • Simon Bing (1574-1580)
  • Eitel von Berlepsch (1580–1602)

Colonels

  • Löwenstein Castle (1603–1619)
  • Volpert Riedesel von Eisenbach (before 1619)
  • Otto Reinhard von Dalwigk (1625–1634)
  • Justinus Ungefug (1641-1652)
  • Jakob von Hoff (1655–1667)
  • Caspar Friedrich von Dalwigk (1671–1673)
  • from Rohée (1700)

literature

  • Fritz Adolf Brauer: Die Grafschaft Ziegenhain, 1934, pp. 57–62, 145–146.
  • Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender: 1818, S. 81, digitalisat .