Kurpfälzischer Amtshof (Worms)

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Coat of arms and year on the Electoral Palatinate court

The Kurpfälzische Amtshof was the house of the Leiselheimer Unterfauth.

Today it is privately owned. The half-timbered building has been restored and is in the Dr. Illert-Str. 7 in the Worms district of Leiselheim . Above the man gate you can find the coat of arms of the Electorate of the Palatinate and the dates 1752 (or 1774) when it was built. Remnants of the tithe barn in the inner courtyard and historical cellar vaults have also been preserved.

In the 16th century, Leiselheim, Hochheim and Pfiffligheim came under the rule of the Electoral Palatinate and thus became the property of the Count Palatine . The Count Palatine was the sovereign until the Napoleonic era and determined the administration. This resulted in the following administrative hierarchy for Leiselheim: The Count Palatinate appointed a Burgrave to head the Alzey Office. From there, a waiter got hot(later called "Oberfauth") intended for the Hochheim district. This in turn determines the "Unterfauth" for the places under his control, who today could also be described as the "local chief". The place Leiselheim was headed by this Unterfauth, who in turn was allowed to make suggestions for his deputy to Oberfauth. The Unterfauth were assisted by assistants who had to carry out his orders, including above all the collection of the council tax (the " tithe "). Younger men in particular who could “read and write” were chosen for this service. They were called "mayors" in the parlance at the time. However, this title only became mayor through the mayor from Napoleon's time.

literature

  • Eugen Schüler, Richard Roschy: The local administration . In: WORMS-LEISELHEIM local chronicle . 2001, p. 64 ff .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] , P. 28 (PDF; 5.0 MB).

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 26.7 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 18.4"  E