Vice cathedral office in the city of Mainz
The Vizedomamt in the city of Mainz was an administrative unit in the Electorate of Mainz .
prehistory
The archbishop had been the most important landowner in the city of Mainz since the 9th century. At the end of the 10th century, the diocese had also received the so-called "Count's Third". The archbishop had thus effectively become sovereign. An expression of the sovereignty was the appointment of an archbishop's official with the title “Hochvogt and Stadtpräfekt”. 1028 Erkenbald is a city vogt called, making it the first known Vogt. The title of burgrave has also been used for the city bailiff since 1213 .
The Counts of Looz-Rieneck held the title of burgrave until 1221 . However, from the second half of the 12th century this became increasingly a sinecure . The treasurer was now the head of the archbishopric administration. In 1108 this office was first officially divided as city treasurer and court treasurer. The (spiritual) city treasurer became chairman of the city court, the secular court treasurer was responsible for blood justice and administration. In 1298 Pope Boniface VIII lifted the ban on clergymen from exercising blood jurisdiction. The treasurer functions have been combined. The occupation of the office of chamberlain was the domain of the chapter.
With the city privilege of Archbishop Siegfried III. von Eppstein from 1244, the city gained further independence. Most of the power was now in the hands of the city council. However, the archbishop was still entitled to the high level of justice.
history
After the Mainz collegiate feud in 1462 the position of Mainz as a free city ended . From this point in time it was the royal seat of the elector and the administration and jurisdiction was carried out from 1464 by an authorized representative of Kurmainz. This initially carried the title of city governor, from 1478 that of a bailiff and from 1489 that of a vice cathedral . The Vice Cathedral Office in the city of Mainz was created.
Because it was limited to the city of Mainz, the organization of the vice cathedral office differed from that of the other vice cathedral offices. There were no subordinate offices or senior offices. There was a city council that had no sovereign tasks, but was responsible for the jurisdiction and administration.
With the official reform of 1782, the title of Vice Cathedral in the city of Mainz also became a sinecure. A vice cathedral director was now the de facto head of administration in the city.
The First Coalition War meant the end of the vice cathedral office in the city of Mainz. With the peace of Campo Formio , the empire had to recognize the annexation of the left bank of the Rhine . Mainz became French and the French administrative organization replaced the electoral organization.
Vizedome
- Eberhard von Eppstein (1464–1478)
- Philipp von Eppstein (1478–1480)
- Emmerich of Nassau (1489–1494)
- Johann von Breitbach (1494–1503)
- Emmerich von Karben (1503–1511)
- Konrad von Hattstein
- Martin von Heusenstamm (1523–1527)
- Heinrich V. von Selbold (named as Vice Cathedral in 1572)
- Heinrich Brömser (1636–1668)
- Franz Freiherr von Sickingen
- Damian Hartard Ernst Freiherr von Grünstein (1732–1742)
- Ludwig Franz Freiherr Knebel von Katzenelnbogen (1742–1754)
- Franz von Spaur (1754–1756)
- Carl Adolf Freiherr von Ritter zu Grünstein (1756–1781)
- Philipp Anton von Bibra (1781–)
Vice-Cathedral Director: HJ Heimes
The Vizedome were also responsible for the Vizedomamt apart from the city of Mainz .
literature
- Günter Christ, Georg May: Archbishopric and Archdiocese of Mainz: territorial and ecclesiastical structures. Volume 2, 1997, ISBN 3-429-01877-3 , pp. 280-284.