Governor of Erfurt

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The Electoral Main Zische Erfurt State was of Vice cathedral and governors on behalf of the archbishops of Mainz from 1664 bis 1802 managed that in 1699 from kurmainzischen governor's office were located.

prehistory

Erfurt was first mentioned in a document in 742 . Soon afterwards, Erfurt is ecclesiastically assigned to the diocese of Mainz . Although Erfurt had been subordinate to the Archbishop of Mainz with regard to secular rule since around the year 1000 , the city managed to maintain its independence from Mainz as far as possible throughout the Middle Ages . As a result of the Peace of Westphalia negotiated in 1648 , the Elector of Mainz was again confirmed his territorial rights to Erfurt.

Since this Erfurt after the Thirty Years' War negotiated result continued to deny, was the Elector of Mainz , Johann Philipp von Schönborn , the fine imposed on Erfurt outlawed in 1664 enforced. The city was subjugated by military means on October 5, 1664 after a siege by the archbishop's army, which includes 15,000 soldiers, including 6,000 French. The city and its rural area, but also important areas of local self-government, fall to Mainz. With this “reduction” Erfurt's independence ended.

Electoral Mainz State of Erfurt

When Kurmainz came to power, the Erfurt area with 72 localities and the city of Sömmerda were administered in seven bailiwicks and six offices . This administrative division came from before 1664. Count Boineburg's administrative reform of 1706 created eight offices, later nine. The heads of these offices were the officials .

The entire Erfurt area covered 16 square miles with about 40,000 inhabitants. Kurmainz had the affairs of government run by his administrators from 1664 to 1802. From 1664 to 1675 these were subordinate to the Mainz court councilor and the court chamber as vice domes, then as governors . The governors were also diplomatic representatives of Kurmainz at the Saxon courts of Eisenach and Gotha .

The 1200 to 1500 Mainz soldiers who were stationed in the Kurmainzische and the Imperial garrison in Erfurt as per contract served to maintain power .

The office of governor of Erfurt was only allowed to be assigned to one of the 24 cathedral capitulars , as was determined in the electoral capitulation of Elector Damian Hartard von der Leyen in 1675. The noble cathedral capitulars formed the top of the Kurmainzer hierarchy with numerous offices in administration and government. The members of the cathedral capitulars in turn came from the Mainz pin nobility .

In 1802, the state of Erfurt came to the Kingdom of Prussia as compensation in accordance with the Franco-Prussian Treaty , which ended the time of the Mainz governors in Erfurt.

List of the governors of Erfurt

  1. 1664–1667: Philipp Ludwig Freiherr von Reiffenberg , then imprisoned
  2. 1667–1674: Friedrich von Greiffenclau , then Vice Cathedral in the Rheingau
  3. 1675–1675: Johann Heinrich Daniel Freiherr Ritter von Groenestein
  4. 1675–1679: Anselm Franz Freiherr von Ingelheim , then Elector and Archbishop of Mainz
  5. 1679–1697: Johann Jakob Waldbott von Bassenheim , buried in St. Wigbert
  6. 1699–1702: Gottlieb Philipp Josef Faust von Stromberg , buried in Erfurt Cathedral
  7. 1702–1717: Philipp Wilhelm Reichsgraf von Boineburg , buried in St. Wigbert
  8. 1717–1732: Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bicken , buried in St. Wigbert
  9. 1732–1760: Anselm Franz Ernst Freiherr von Warsberg , buried in St. Wigbert
  10. 1763–1766: Karl Joseph Adolf Lukas Freiherr Schenk von Schmidtburg , buried in St. Wigbert
  11. 1766–1770: Karl Wilhelm Joseph Adam Freiherr von Breidbach zu Bürresheim , buried in St. Wigbert
  12. 1771–1802: Karl Theodor Maria von Dalberg , then elector and archbishop of Mainz, 1806 primate , later grand duke of Frankfurt , died as diocesan bishop of Regensburg in 1817, buried in Regensburg Cathedral .