Oberamt Münstermaifeld

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The Oberamt Münster (maifeld) was an administrative and judicial district in the Electorate of Trier that existed from the beginning to the end of the 18th century . The offices of Amt Münstermaifeld , Amt Kobern and Amt Alken were subordinate to him.

history

At the beginning of the 18th century, the high level of jurisdiction for the associated offices was concentrated in Münstermaifeld . The function of the bailiff was also increasingly performed in personal union by the bailiff in the office of the Münstermaifeld offices. The last trustee Johann Maria Rudolf Graf Waldbott von Bassenheim (1731–1805) was the magistrate of the offices of Münster (maifeld), Kobern and Alken.

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

Electoral court

The seat of the chief magistrate was the electoral court in what is now Untertorstrasse 10/12. The cripple-hip roof building made of quarry stone is marked 1651, the associated barns with 1787. The farm is a listed building.

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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 2, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 869–876.
  • Des Hohen Erz-Stifts und Churfürstenthums Trier court, state and state calendar, 1787, p. 127, digitized .