Estates of the Eichsfeld
The estates of the Eichsfeld were the only historical estates in Kurmainz .
history
The estates of the Eichsfeld were first mentioned in 1479. At that time, the knighthood and the cities (successfully) demanded the recall of the Oberamtmann Heinrich Graf Schwarzenburg. From the middle of the 16th century the estates had three curiae . In addition to the knighthood and cities, the clergy formed the third curia.
The clergy consisted of the Abbeys Gerode and Reifenstein , the monasteries in Heiligenstadt and Nörten , the women's monasteries Anrode , Beuren , Teistungenburg and Zella and the spiritual commissioner in Heiligenstadt, who represented the pastors. The cities were represented by one representative each from Heiligenstadt , Duderstadt , Worbis (since 1682) and Treffurt (Mainz part). The membership of the knighthood was based on the possession of a manor suitable for the state assembly . At the end of the HRR, 17 families formed the knighthood.
The abbot of Reifenstein was the primate of the Eichsfeld estates. From 1732 he shared this task with the Abbot of Gerode.
The main task was the approval and administration of the land and Turkish tax in the Eichsfeld state . For this purpose, in 1542 each curia appointed a separate collector for the tax receipts. Later, each curia named two representatives who supported the chief bailiff (or after 1654 the land clerk) in the tax administration. In the Higher Regional Court established in 1540 , each curia was represented by two assessors. The estates did not have any further rights.
The estates only met on the instructions of the chief bailiff. The place of assembly was initially the Fegebankswarte near Heiligenstadt, from 1540 the Rathaus Heiligenstadt and from 1732 the Lieutenancy .
Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal abolished the rights of the estates in 1796 and thus ensured the alignment with the other parts of the electoral state.
literature
- Friedhelm Jürgensmeier (ed.), Günter Christ, Georg May: Archbishopric and Archdiocese of Mainz: Territorial and ecclesiastical structures (= Handbook of Mainz Church History. Part 2). Echter, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-429-01877-3 , pp. 393-394.
- Hermann-Josef Braun: The estates in the Kurmainzer Eichsfeld. In: Land estates in Thuringia. Pre-parliamentary structures and political culture in the Old Kingdom. Edited by the Thuringian Parliament, Weimar 2008, pp. 284–300.
- Johann Wolf: Political history of the Eichsfeld explained with documents. Second volume. Göttingen 1793, pp. 110-124.
- Elmar Golland: The Historical Significance of the Fegebankswarte. In: Eichsfeld 42 (1998), pp. 371-373.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ed. Ulrich Harteisen, Ansgar Hoppe et al .: Das Eichsfeld. Volume 79 of the series Landscapes in Germany. Verlag Böhlau , Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2018, p. 93