Oberamt Boppard

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The Oberamt Boppard was an administrative and judicial district in the Nieder-Erzstift Trier of the Electorate of Trier that existed from the beginning to the end of the 18th century . The offices of Amt Boppard , Amt Oberwesel , the Gallscheider Court and the Amt Wellmich were subordinate to him.

history

At the beginning of the 18th century, high jurisdiction for the associated offices was concentrated in Boppard . The function of the bailiff was also increasingly performed in personal union by the bailiff in the Boppard office. The last electorate officials Franz Ludwig von Eltz and Franz Eugen Freiherr von und zu Westerholdt were officials von Boppard, Oberwesel and Wellmich.

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the office was dissolved after 1794. In the French era , the area belonged to the canton of Boppard .

Official seat

The official administration had its seat in the electoral castle in Boppard and was led by the bailiff.

See also

literature

  • Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old empire: Edition and commentary on the Electoral Trier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, Volume 1, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 149-209.

Individual evidence

  1. Des Hohen Erz-Stifts und Churfürstenthums Trier Hof-, Staats- und Stands-Kalender, 1779, p. 76 digitized