"Roland Krug (born 1554, † 1617) came from Goar am Rhein and was the youngest of 23 children of a Hessian customs clerk. He studied in Marburg, became Court Prosecutor in Marburg and later in Fulda also documented as a magistrate in Nidda. The linking of these two offices shows how important it was for the landgrave to control and promote salt production. As magistrate, Roland Krug had both a secure income and extensive powers that allowed him to expand of the saltworks and perhaps also the associated sale of the salt.The takeover of the saltworks, which was probably not in good condition, was associated with high costs for Roland Krug, since he was obliged to run the saltworks at his own expense to build.
A total of five generations of the Krug family were enfeoffed with Salzhausen between 1593 and 1729. Roland Krug was succeeded by his son Hermann Friedrich Krug, who worked as a salt factor (managing director) in Salzhausen. Roland Krug's grandsons, cousins Ludwig Adolf and Johann Reinhard, were knighted on April 9, 1648. Ludwig Adolf Krug was rent master and bailiff in Nidda, salt count in Salzhausen and imperial water captain (oversight of the rivers of the Wetterau). The Krug family had a stately house on the market square in Nidda, in which an inscription states that it was built in 1599. The house was demolished in 1962. The family mansion in Geiß-Nidda was demolished in 1965. This place had been owned by the Krug family since 1659, who only ceded patrimonial jurisdiction and lower police powers in 1821. The Krugsche Gasse in Nidda is a reminder of the family today. In addition, the so-called Rolandsruhe was created by the Salzhausen Kurverein in 1899, a resting place with a commemorative plaque at the beginning of the ascent of the footpath between Salzhausen and Nidda. The commemorative plaque has remained in the possession of the city of Nidda and has been reinstalled at the original location.
..." HStAD Best. R 21 C 1 No. Verification. In addition, Roland Krug was Hanauischer Keller (rent manager) in Steinau, according to the inscription on his tombstone, which is now in the Nidda town church. HStAD Best. R 21 C 1 No. Verification. In 1622, Arnold Schwarz is documented as a bailiff, see Battenberg, p. 42. According to Lentz, p. According to Lentz p. 17, Krug no longer held the office of bailiff before 1607. Lentz p. 17. Roland Krug, according to Lentz (according to Köbrich), used his wife's entire fortune, which amounted to a remarkable 9000 guilders. The Krug von Nidda family, which is very widespread, still exists today. According to Lenz p. 16, one branch lived in Frohburg Castle in Saxony before 1945. There was also the portrait of Roland Krug, which has been missing since the expropriation in 1945." bad-salzhausen.de/ankommen/geschichte-bad-salzhausen/praegende-personalities
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