Landecker Office
The Landecker Amt (or Amt Landeck ) was a historical administrative area of the Imperial Abbey of Hersfeld and the Landgraviate of Hesse . The name giver for this historical area is the Landecker Berg with the Landeck Castle built in 1234 (today a ruin). Although the office no longer exists as a lower state administrative authority, the designation "Landecker Amt" has been retained up to the present day and lives on in the name of numerous public institutions and private clubs and associations.
Geographical location
The area of the Landecker Amts lies on the northern foothills of the Hessian Kuppen rhön , on a plateau between the Fulda valley in the west and the Werra valley in the east. To the north it is bounded by the Seulingswald . The main town is Schenklengsfeld in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district .
The Landecker Amt includes a. the localities Schenklengsfeld, Oberlengsfeld , Wehrshausen , Unterweiseborn , Landershausen , Konrode , Wüstfeld , Dinkelrode , Malkomes , Schenksolz , Hilmes (which merged in 1972 to form the large municipality of Schenklengsfeld), Motzfeld (today to the municipality of Friedewald ), Heimboldshausen (today to the municipality of Friedewald ) Philippsthal (Werra municipality ) ) as well as Mansbach , Ransbach , Oberbreitzbach , Glaam and Ausbach (all five to the municipality of Hohenroda ). Around 6,500 people live around the Landeckerberg today.
Adjacent administrative units
| Petersberg Monastery (Hersfeld Abbey, after 1648 part of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel) | Friedewald Office (Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel) | |
| Amt Schildschlag (Hersfeld Abbey, after 1648 part of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel) |
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Vogtei Kreuzberg (Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel) |
| Buchenau rulership (Fulda Abbey) | Fürsteneck Office (Fulda Monastery) | Mansbach reign (Fulda Abbey) |
history
As "Lengesfeld in Thuringia", the village of Schenklengsfeld is first mentioned in a document around 815 in the register of the Hersfeld monastery property , the Breviarium Lulli . The place soon developed into the center of the area. In 1141 a fortified church was laid out, and in 1234 an abbey castle of the Hersfeld Abbey was completed on the Landeckerberg. In 1314 "inferior" and "superior Lengisfeld" were mentioned in a document, and in 1402 the place was called "Lengisfeld unter Landecke".
In the 15th century the Landeck office was created as an administrative unit within the area of the Hersfeld Abbey . In 1525 the office (like the city of Hersfeld) was occupied by Hessian troops during the Peasants' War. Landeck Castle was probably destroyed during this time. In 1558, Landgrave Philipp of Hesse received joint rule over Hersfeld and with it the Landeck office. In the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 it was determined that the formerly independent Imperial Abbey of Hersfeld was incorporated into the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as the secular "Principality of Hersfeld" . This made the Landeck office completely Hessian.
The Landeck and Frauensee offices as well as the Hessian share of the Treffurt inheritance according to the contract of April 22, 1729 after the death of the last Hanau Count Johann Reinhard III , fell to the settlement of the electoral Saxon claims to the Hanau-Münzenberger Reichslehen . 1736 to the Electorate of Saxony . Only six years later, the Landecker Amt and the Frauensee office came back to Hessen-Kassel through repurchase in 1742.
Under French occupation, from 1807 to 1813, the Landecker Amt was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia as the canton of Landeck . After the restitution of the Electorate of Hesse , it was again part of the Electorate. During the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821 the Landeck office was enlarged and assigned to the Hersfeld district . It was now also a lower judicial authority and included the former Vogtei Kreuzberg ( Philippsthal (Werra) ). When Kurhessen was annexed by Prussia in 1866 , the villages around the Landecker also came to Prussia. In 1912 the office was connected to the railway network by the Hersfeld circular railway ; the route led from Hersfeld via Malkomes , Schenklengsfeld and Ransbach to Heimboldshausen . After the Second World War, the Landecker Amt became Hessian again. During the municipal reform in 1972, the majority of the previously independent localities merged to form the large municipality of Schenklengsfeld.
Associated places and courtyards
According to the historical local lexicon of Hesse, the following places belonged to the Landecker Amt:
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Landeck Office. Search in the "Historical Ortlexikon für Hessen". (As of March 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
source
- Peter Roßkopf: The Landecker Amt in the Hersfeld district. Bad Hersfeld, 1964.
