Oberamt Orb and Lohr

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The Office Lohr (later Oberamt Orb and Lohr ) was an office of Kurmainz .

function

In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.

history

The core of the Lohr office was the county of Rieneck . Count Philip III. von Rieneck died as the last male member of his family on September 3, 1559. Kurmainz then moved in as a settled fiefdom . In addition to the Mainz rights, other rights holders were also affected. The following solutions were agreed. The town of Lohr itself and Sackenbach were left to the count's widow as Wittum and only became property of Mainz when she died in 1574. A condominium between Mainz and Hanau was built in Biebergrund, which comprised seven towns . This also applied to the Partenstein office . Partenstein itself belonged half to Mainz and Hanau, half of the rest of the office (Rodenbach, Wombach, Neuendorf, Nantenbach "ob der Bach" and Lohrhaupten (Seulbacher side)) belonged to Hanau and half to Mainz and Rieneck. The Mainz property was referred to as the Electoral Mainz rule of Rieneck and administered in the Lohr and Rieneck cellars.

During the Thirty Years War Kurmainz was occupied by the Swedish in 1632. The Swedish government in Mainz awarded the Mainz shares in the offices of Rieneck, Partenstein, Lohrhaupten and Biebergrund to (the Protestant) Hanau. With the end of the Swedish occupation this became irrelevant, with the Peace of Westphalia it was finally invalid.

The Rieneck winery was sold to Johann Hartwig von Nostitz-Rieneck in 1673 . In 1684/85 Mainz and Hanau dissolved the condominium: Hanau received the Biebergrund and Lohrhaupten, the rest of the Partenstein office came to the ore monastery of Mainz. With that, the Lohr office had found its final form. The office of Partenstein was mentioned for the last time in 1699 in the official designation of "Amtmann zu Lohr and zu Partenstein", after that only the office of Lohr is mentioned.

In 1782 there was an official reform in the bishopric of Mainz. The offices of Orb and Lohr were merged into one Oberamt Orb and Lohr. These included the Orb winery and the Lohr winery. These included the district bailiffs Lohr and Burgjoss-Hausen (to the Orb winery) and Lohr and Frammersbach (to the Lohr winery). The district bailiwick of Lohr consisted of Lohr am Main , Sackenbach , Rodenbach am Main , Wombach , Nantenbach , Neuendorf , Langenprozelten and Rechtenbach . To Amtsvogtei Frammersbach belonged Frammersbach , meadows , Ruppertshütten and Partenstein .

As a result of the secularization of the Archdiocese in 1803, the Oberamt Orb und Lohr came to the Principality of Aschaffenburg , then belonged to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt and in 1814 fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Officials in Lohr

  • Johann von Wollstadt (1559–1569)
  • Philipp von Dienheim (1560–1572)
  • Hans Leonhard Kottwitz from Aulenbach zu Urspringen and Mühlbach (1572–1575)
  • Hartmut von Cronberg the Elder J. (1576-1591)
  • Hartmut von Cronberg the Elder M. (1591-1605)
  • Wolf Dietrich von Dalberg, Chamberlain of Worms (1605–1613)
  • Hermann von Cronberg (1613–1614)
  • Hermann von Königstein-Schönburg (1619–1621)
  • Johann Ludwig von Kerpen zu Zellingen (1621–1639)
  • Johann Karl von und zu Frankenstein (1639–1649)
  • Johann Peter von und zu Frankenstein (1649–1665)
  • Johann Philipp Walbott zu Bassenheim (1665–1681)
  • Wolfgang Dietrich Truchseß zu Wetzhausen (1681–1699)
  • Johann Dietrich von Dalberg, Chamberlain of Worms (1699–1719)
  • Philipp Christoph von Erthal (1719–1748)
  • Vacancy (1749)
  • Lothar Franz Michael von Erthal (1750–1782)
  • Damian Hugo von Schmittburg (chief magistrate of Orb and Lohr 1783–1803)
  • Franz Philipp Will (Office Administrator and Office Cellar of the Lohr Winery 1783–1796)
  • Franz Josef Debattis (clerk and office cellar of the Lohr office cellar 1796–1803)

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