Zierenberg Office
The Amt Zierenberg (originally Amt Schartenberg ) was an administrative and judicial district of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and the Electorate of Hesse that existed from the 14th century to 1821 .
history
The starting point of the office was Schartenberg Castle (for the ownership structure before the office was formed, see there). On May 7, 1294, the von Schartenberg brothers sold "three parts of Schartenberg Castle and the surrounding courts" for 600 marks, with the exception of the Ehrsten court. In the same year Archbishop Gerhard II von Eppstein gave the Mainz half as a fief and wedding gift to Elisabeth ("the middle one") (1276-1306), a daughter of Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse , on the occasion of her marriage to Count Gerhard V. von Eppstein . The marriage remained childless and in 1307 this half fell to Landgrave Johann von Hessen , Elisabeth's brother , according to the contract . Hesse thus became the owner of the castle and county of Schartenberg.
To secure the Hessian reign at the top Warmetal was Zierenberg in the late 13th century by the Hessian Landgrave Heinrich I founded. The city was in the area of the Hasungen monastery . In 1263, in the Peace of Langsdorf , Hesse received the disputed Mainz fiefdom of the monastery bailiwick , but the manor was with the monastery. The landgrave therefore acquired the villages of Hilbolzen, Hedewigsen and Gerixen from the monastery (now all of them desolation). In 1305 there was an exchange of individual goods from the towns. The villages were abandoned and the residents formed the new town population. In 1307 lay judges in Zierenberg were named for the first time, and in 1317 at the latest the high judiciary in Zierenberg was perceived.
The Hessian property around Zierenberg was divided into various courts, in which the local nobles had a large share. An office Schartenberg in the narrower sense had not yet come into being, but Hermann von Schartenberg was appointed in 1371 as "Burgmann" and in 1377 Kurd Spiegel as an official for the offices of Zierenberg, Wolfhagen, Gudensberg, Freienhagen and Niedenstein. Soon after 1383 Hermann von Spiegel died and the court and Ehrsten became part of the Landgraviate and the office.
In the 16th century the office consisted of the town of Zierenberg and the villages of Ehrsten, Ober- and Unter-Elsungen , Haueda , Ober- and Unter-Meiser , Niederlistingen , Westuffeln and Zwergen . There are also the noble villages of Meimbressen , Ersen , Grimelsheim , Oberlistingen , Herlinghausen , Wettesingen and Breuna . In 1787, Hessen ceded the rights to Ober- and Unter-Elsungen and Niedermeiser to Malsburg and in return received full rights to Ober- and Unter-Meiser, Meimbressen, Ehrsten, Haueda, Wettesingen and Zwergen.
In 1806, as part of the formation of the Rhine Confederation, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel was dissolved and the administrative area fell to the Kingdom of Westphalia . The canton of Wolfhagen came into being there . After the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, the Electorate of Hesse was re-established and the Zierenberg office was rebuilt. Since the Malsburg court rights in the Kingdom of Westphalia had been repealed, the office now formed a unified district. It now consisted of the town of Zierenberg and the villages of Breuna , Dörnberg , Ehrsten, Ersen, Fürstenwald , Grimelsheim, Haueda, Meimbressen, Niederelsungen, Niedermeiser, Oberelsungen, Oberlistingen, Obermeiser, Rangen , Röhde , Westuffeln, Wettesingen and Zwergen, the Escheberg farms, Hohenborn, Laar, Malsburg, Oedinghausen and Sieberhausen and the colonies Friedrichsaue and Friedrichstein .
In 1806, as part of the formation of the Rhine Confederation, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel was dissolved and the administrative area fell to the Kingdom of Westphalia . This is where the canton of Zierenberg came into being . After the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, the Electorate of Hesse was re-established and the Zierenberg office was rebuilt.
In 1821/22 the separation of jurisdiction from administration was introduced in Kurhessen . The administrative tasks went to the Wolfhagen district (for some places to the Hofgeismar district ), the jurisdiction to the Wolfhagen justice office . The office itself was dissolved.
literature
- Anna Schroeder-Petersen: The offices of Wolfhagen and Zierenberg, 1936, pp. 114–128.
- Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender: 1818, p. 69, digitized .