Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher

Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher (* 1738 in Herborn ; † not before 1812 ) was a Nassau bailiff in Kirberg and Camberg from the Pagenstecher family .

family

Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher was the youngest son of the rector of the High School Herborn , Ernst Alexander Otto Cornelius Pagenstecher (1697–1753) and his wife Maria Margaretha nee Ludovici († 1748).

His brother, Philipp Gerhard Otto Cornelius Pagenstecher (1727–1779) was bailiff in the Siegen district , his son Hermann Jacob Pagenstecher (1765–1836) bailiff in Wehrheim, Usingen, Idstein and Weilburg.

Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher married Elisabeth Marie Christine née Gürtler in Siegen in 1772 . The bride was the daughter of the Nassau-Orange government councilor Friedrich Gürtler and his wife Elisabeth Arnoldine Pagenstecher (1724–1766).

His youngest son Wilhelm Pagenstecher (1779–1818) became an official assessor in Kirberg in 1801 and from 1802 he was in the service of the Dillenburg government. The older of the two sons, Hermann Moriz Pagenstecher (1773–1835) became a chamber assessor in Dillenburg.

Life

Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher served briefly as an officer in the French service and studied law. On April 25, 1761 he was sworn in as a lawyer. Before that, he had taken a written and an oral exam before the examination committee, which consisted of the office director Spannknabe, judiciary Lorbachs, judicial advisor Hermann Moritz Pagenstecher and office assistant professor von Neufville.

Bailiff in Kirberg

In 1768 he was appointed as Nassau-Dillenburger (or Orange) bailiff in the Kirberg department . He was sworn in on August 25, 1768 in Dillenburg and he arrived in Kirberg on October 25, 1768. The Kirberg office was a condominium between Nassau-Saarbrücken and Nassau-Dillenburg. The previous Nassau-Dillenburg bailiff, Georg Friedlieb Rühle, was 80 years old when he left office and had let the official business slide. Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher therefore first had to reorganize the administrative business.

The work was made more difficult by the fact that the office building burned down in 1710 and there was no office building of its own. One of the first tasks was therefore to rebuild an office building. This was available on October 16, 1771. It later served as an inn "zur Post".

From 1769/70 he also took on the function of a Nassau-Orange bailiff in the neighboring Camberg office . This was also a condominium (together with Kurtrier ), but here the cooperation was much more conflictual.

The conflict over the farm

The first violent conflict arose in April 1771 and June 1772 over the Hof zu Hausen near Eisenbach . The manager of the court, Philipp Kratz, died on April 28, 1771 and Kurtrier and Orange were fighting over the right to regulate the inheritance. The Electoral Trier bailiff Benedikt Marian Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen considered the farm to be part of the Camberg communal office, while Nassau-Orange considered the farm to be the only Orange area and therefore part of the Dauborn office . 1659 the court was as of Nassau-dietzer special loans to Achatius of Hohenfeld been awarded. This spoke in favor of the Orange view. However, the von Hohenfeld family, which has owned this fief since then, has provided the Trier Camberger Oberamtmen, which means that the farm was in fact part of the Camberg office.

Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher ended the conflict of competence on October 26, 1771 by riding out with 12 armed men and having the disputed inheritance brought to the (undisputed Orange) Gnadenthal .

However, this fait accompli did not create a clear picture. The next conflict arose in the following year. On June 13, 1772 there was a fight in the yard. The farmer Wolf refused to obey a summons to Camberg. The Elector of Trier then had his cattle seized. Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher then arranged for Nassau soldiers to be transferred to the court in order to protect his sovereign rights.

Kurtrier responded with concentrated military power. After a short time, 7,000 soldiers faced each other on both sides. Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher, who was just at his wedding in Siegen , had to break off his honeymoon and return to his office immediately. It was possible to avoid the military conflict and to conclude a ceasefire. The Lower Elder Convention of July 1, 1772 ended the conflict with a compromise.

The conflict over the mineral well in Oberselters

→ Main article : “The mineral fountain” in the Oberselters article

The next major military conflict was about the mineral well in Oberselters. In 1794 Kurtrier had an 800-man military unit with two cannons deployed in front of Oberselters, forcing the Oberselters spring to be filled in. Here, too, the conflict escalated to the point of a troop deployment and could only be contained shortly before the outbreak of open warfare.

French Wars

In the First Coalition War , the Camberg office was occupied by the French in 1792 and again in 1796. During the second occupation in 1796, Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher was arrested by the French. The transfer on foot to Diez in the summer heat led to protracted health problems that only slowly disappeared despite several spa treatments in Ems .

In the Duchy of Nassau

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the Electoral Trier part of the Camberg office fell to Nassau-Usingen . With the establishment of the Rhine Confederation in 1806, the Orange parts of both offices became part of the new Duchy of Nassau, just like the Nassau-Usinger . This eliminated the reason to have two bailiffs for each office . In 1808, Friedrich August Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen became sole bailiff for Camberg and Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher sole bailiff for Kirberg.

In 1812 both offices were merged and Ernst Cornelius Pagenstecher retired.

literature

• Ulrich Lange: EC Pagenstecher - his family and the end of both offices, 1988, ISBN 3-87460-064-5 , p. 21 ff.