Burghausen Rent Office

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The Rentamt Burghausen with its seat at Burghauser Burg existed from 1507 to 1802 and was one of the four administrative districts of the Duchy of Bavaria , along with Landshut , Straubing and Munich . The Rentmeisterämter in Munich and Burghausen formed the "Oberland". The Rentamt Amberg was by winning the Upper Palatinate in 1628, the fifth administrative district of the Electorate of Bavaria . The Burghausen Vitztumsamt had existed since at least 1392.

The rent offices were the intermediate authorities between the regional courts of the "lower level" and the central authorities in Munich; they were responsible for legal, administrative, financial and military tasks at the same time. In 1802, the Bavarian Minister Montgelas dissolved the Burghausen Rent Office as part of his major administrative reform. At this point it was already becoming apparent that Burghausen would become the border town between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Empire of Austria . Between 1802 and 1919 the rent office was a pure financial authority and thus a forerunner of today's tax office .

history

Vitztume (from the Latin vicedominus ), who exercised the rights of the duke in parts of the country where the duke was not permanently present, had held office in the Duchy of Bavaria since the 13th century . As the tasks of these vice masters increased over time, these rent masters were assigned as supporting officials. Since this u. a. controlled the finances of the ducal regional courts and other sub-authorities and with these tasks became increasingly more important than the vice-offices themselves, the vice-offices were called rent offices or rent master offices around 1500.

The oldest surviving evidence of a Vitzedom in Burghausen dates from September 7, 1392. Today, this date is considered the hour of birth of the Vitztumsamt Burghausen. The first decades of its existence are poorly documented - the fact that 1392 was the founding year speaks for the fact that in this year (after the death of Duke Stephen II ) the state was divided into Bavaria-Ingolstadt , Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Landshut . In the course of this, the administration was also reorganized.

After the reunification of Bavaria as a result of the Landshut War of Succession , the duchy was reorganized around 1507 through an administrative reform. In Burghausen - as in Landshut and Straubing - a government was set up. This collegial authority had extensive administrative, legal and financial powers in the district entrusted to it. It fulfilled its most important task when it met as a court court. This formed the second instance for proceedings before the subordinate regional and nursing courts and the first instance for persons with a privileged place of jurisdiction (i.e. in particular the nobility and clergy). The members of the government (the councilors) were divided between the knight's bank (for aristocrats) and the scholar's bank (for lawyers). At the head of the government stood as the representative of the Duke of the Viztum, who in Burghausen was called captain until about 1625 and belonged to the knight's bank. The chancellor, who was responsible for the administration of scriptures, headed the scholar bank. The most important official of the government, however, was the rentmaster. This supervised the authorities subordinate to the government. The most important instrument for this was regular inspection trips, the so-called rentmeister rides. In addition, he exercised the vicarage, by which body punishment could be converted into fines. In addition, the government also included the rent clerk (deputy of the rent master), the Hofkastner (responsible for the ducal estates) as well as the Mautner and the forester.

The government initially had its seat at Burghausen Castle , before moving to its own building on the town square , which is now used as the town hall.

In addition to its own city court, the Burghausen Rent Office included the courts of Julbach , Kling , Kraiburg , Mörmoosen , Neuötting , Trostberg , Braunau , Friedburg , Mattighofen , Mauerkirchen , Ried im Innkreis , Schärding , Uttendorf and Wildshut . With the Treaty of Teschen in 1779, the Burghausen Rent Office lost the Innviertel and with it about half of its territory. In order to compensate for this, it was given the Eggenfelden, Griesbach, Hals, Neumarkt, Pfarrkirchen and Vilshofen regional courts as part of the division of the Landshut Rent Office, and the Marquartstein, Reichenhall and Traunstein courts, which were previously part of the Munich Rent Office, were added. After the Landshut Rent Office was re-established in 1784, the Eggenfelden, Neumarkt and Pfarrkirchen courts had to return it to it.

In the course of the reforms of Minister Maximilian von Montgelas , the rent offices were dissolved in 1802. The areas of Upper and Lower Bavaria were subordinated to the newly created General Directorate of Munich. When Bavaria was divided into districts (the forerunners of today's administrative districts) in 1808, the city of Burghausen was first added to the Salzach district, before it came to the Isar district in 1817 , from which the administrative district of Upper Bavaria later emerged.

In addition, there was also a Burghausen Rent Office. However, it was a pure sub-authority of the financial administration, which was only responsible for the city of Burghausen and the surrounding area. It basically only has the name in common with the old Rent Office.

The "Herzogstadt Burghausen" association has been celebrating the "Rentamtsfest" ("Castle Festival") since 1969 in memory of the time when the land on both sides of the Salzach and Inn was part of the Burghausen Rentamtsfest .

Viztume and Rentmeister

Viztume

Surname Term of office
Wilhelm von Frauenberg 1487-1508
Kuno from Walprunn 1509-1517
Wolf von Puchberg 1517-1522
Alban of Closen 1522-1525
Wolfgang von Schellenberg 1525-1530
Hans Rorbach 1530-1533
Sigmund von Pfeffenhausen 1533-1541
Wolf of Maxlrain 1541-1561
Hans von Trenbach 1562-1567
Wiguleus Zenger 1567-1580
Wolf Wilhelm von Maxlrain 1581-1595
Rudolf zu Sulz 1596-1598
Wolf Sebastian Höhenkircher 1597-1598
Christoph Neuburger 1598-1599
Johann Joachim Fugger from Kirchberg and Weißenhorn 1599-1624
Georg zu Ortenburg 1625-1627
Rudolph von Donrsperg 1628-1640
Ferdinand Lorenz von Wartenberg 1641-1649
Viktor Adam von Seyboltstorff 1649-1657
Johann Maximilian von Preysing 1657-1666
Albrecht Wilhelm Loesch 1666
Franz von Neuhaus 1666-1677
Johann Ferdinand Albrecht von Orth 1677-1683
Timon Viktor von Weichs 1683-1686
Johann Wolf von Taufkirchen 1687-1698
Johann Joseph Wiguleus von Weichs 1698-1718
Joseph Herwarth von Hohenburg 1706-1715
Joseph Franz Xaver von Seyboltstorff 1718-1720
Franz Joseph Ignaz von Taufkirchen 1720-1726
Karl Adam Felix von Freyberg 1726-1736
Adam Johann Joseph Anton von Taufkirchen 1736-1758
Karl Maximilian Albert of Taufkirchen 1758-1780
Johann Nepomuk von Dachsperg 1779-1784
Karl von Berchem 1784-1799
Maximilian von Berchem 1799-1802

Rentmaster

Surname Term of office
Heinrich Seiberstorffer 1521-1529
Hans Suntheimer 1530-1541
Kaspar Offenhaimer 1541-1545
Christoph Frennkinger 1546-1560
Christoph Kneittinger 1560-1564
Leonhard Simon Eck 1564-1575
Wolf Stockhamer 1576-1588
Johann Franz Reichwein 1589-1596
Hans Prew 1597-1604
Phillip Eichenhauser from and to Eichenhausen 1604-1626
Hans Georg Prew 1626-1629
Hans Sigmund von Thumbperg 1629-1658
Hans Wilhelm Scharffeder 1659-1669
Maximilian Ernst of Gözengrien 1669-1683
Adam Ludwig Plank of Plankenberg 1683-1697
Dominicus Karl von Widnman 1697-1706
Johann Michael von Reichwein 1706-1708
Dominicus Karl von Widnman 1708-1714
Johann Michael von Reichwein 1715-1728
Johann Joseph Viktor Harscher 1728-1729
Maximilian Franz von Berchem 1730-1771
Karl von Berchem 1771-1777
Franz Ferdinand von Prielmayr 1777-1787
Joseph von Armansperg 1780-1785
Franz von Armansperg 1786-1787
Maximilian von Berchem 1787-1799

literature

  • Georg Ferchl: Bavarian Authorities and Officials 1550-1804 in: Upper Bavarian Archives Volume 53 (1908-12)
  • Alois Buchleitner, Johann Dorner, Max Hingerl, Josef Pfennigmann: Six hundred years of Burghausen Rent Office. City of Burghausen, Burghausen 1992 ( Burghauser Geschichtsblätter 47, ZDB -ID 342459-5 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government Gazette 1802, column 89
  2. Sulz was the duchess's chief steward in Munich and therefore not present in Burghausen
  3. Höhenkircher acted as chief administrator for Sulz
  4. Neuburger was only a captain's office administrator, as the office itself was vacant
  5. Weichs was excluded from official business from 1706 to 1715.
  6. ^ Hohenburg acted as Vice Commissioner for Weichs
  7. Taufkirchen was the son of his predecessor; he held office from 1779 as the first vice chairman
  8. Dachsperg was vicarage in Landshut until 1779 and was appointed to the second vicarage of Burghausen after the dissolution of his government ; from 1780 he exercised the office alone and returned to his old position after the restoration of the Landshut government.
  9. a b Berchem was initially a rent master before he was appointed to the vice position after the factual abolition of this office in 1799; from 1800 held the title President of the Government held Viztum .
  10. ^ Son of Hans Prew
  11. Widnmans second term
  12. ^ Reichwein's second term in office
  13. Rent office administrator
  14. Berchem was the son of his predecessor
  15. Prielmayr was a building inspector in Munich from 1780 and was therefore no longer able to exercise his office.
  16. Joseph von Armansperg represented the absent Prielmayr as the commissioner for the rent department
  17. Franz von Armansperg represented the absent Prielmayr as deputy commissioner for the rent office; The actual rent office commissioner was the victum Karl von Berchem, who could not exercise the office because of his other duties.