Office seltzer

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Map of the office of Selters 1828
The office of Selters from 1816 in green within today's district area

The office of Selters was a Countly Wiedsches and from 1806 a Nassau office with its seat in Selters (Westerwald) .

history

Wied

The office of Selters was formed in 1598 from the parishes of Rückeroth and Nordhofen . In 1754 the seat of the office was moved to Grenzhausen . In 1799 the Maxsain ban , which had previously belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg, was attached to it.

Nassau

The Grenzhausen office (and the other areas of the later district of Neuwied ) came to the Duchy of Nassau with the establishment of the Rhine Confederation in 1806 and became part of the Ehrenbreitstein administrative district .

The Selters office was created in 1816 when the official seat was relocated to Selters. At the same time a number of places were assigned to the office, which until 1803 belonged to the Electorate of Trier and from 1806 to the Nassau offices of Grenzau , Herschbach , Sayn and Montabaur .

To the office of Selters belonged the last Wied-Neuwied'schen places Selters, Alsbach, Dreifelden, Freilingen, Freirachdorf, Goddert, Grenzhausen, Hilgert with Faulbach, Hundsdorf, Linden, Maxsain, Mogendorf, Nordhofen, Quirnbach, Rückeroth, Steinen with Stahlhofen and Straß , Vielbach, Wölferlingen and Zürbach. In relation to these places, the prerogatives of the princes of Wied-Neuwied continued to apply. The office was therefore referred to as the Ducal Nassau and Princely Neuwied Office of Selters until the March Revolution .

Of the places that were electoral Trier until 1803 , Baumbach, Breitenau and Hirzen, Deesen, Ellenhausen, Grenzau, Hartenfels, Helferskirchen and Niederdorf, Herschbach, Kaan, Kammerforst, Krümmel, Marienhausen, Marienrachdorf, Maroth and Trierischhausen, Nauort, Oberhaid, Ransbach, Schenkelberg, Schmidthahn belonged with Steinebach, Langenbaum and Seeburg, Sessenbach, Sessenhausen, Stromberg, Wirscheid and Wittgert to the office of Selters.

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The administrative tasks of the Selters office were carried out by the Hachenburg district office , the jurisdiction of the Selters justice office. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

Prussia

With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia , the offices in their old form were also dissolved and replaced by circles. In 1867, the Selters office, together with the neighboring offices of Montabaur and Wallmerod, formed the Unterwesterwaldkreis . Only as part of this reorganization will administration and jurisdiction be separated. For the jurisdiction in the first instance, which was previously carried out by the office, the judicial officials in the offices were initially responsible and on September 1, 1867 the Selters District Court was formed.

But even after the founding of the district, the previous office structure will be retained. The Royal Ordinance of February 22, 1867 regulated: "The administrative districts as narrower administrative districts exist in their previous limits" The former offices form the three districts of the district. According to § 13 of the district constitution, the districts sent the former offices six representatives to the new district council . The bailiff was in charge of the local police and the district administrator.

With the administrative reform of 1885/1886 the offices were finally dissolved.

people

Noblemen

Bailiffs

The following officials were active in Selters:

Wied

  • 1598–1622: Peter von Merckelbach

Nassau

  • 1817–1820 Johann Friedrich Schapper
  • 1820–1833 Friedrich Ferdinand Kobbe
  • 1833–1839 Karl Eyring
  • 1839–1843 Johann Friedrich Henrich Wilhelm Held
  • (1843-1846) Carl Willett
  • 1846–1849 Maximilian Rudolf Ernst von Reichenau
  • 1854-1859 Carl Michael Claudius Wirth
  • 1859–1867 Adolph Carl Wilhelm Habel
  • 1867–1872 Albert Heinrich Hermann Wilhelm Stahl
  • 1872–1877 August Karl Otto von Harling
  • (1877–1880) Friedrich Georg Freiherr von Wedekind
  • (1880-1886) Paul Reiche

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815–1945, 1979, ISBN 3879691266 , p. 179

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes , 3rd edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1958/1999, p. 346. ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  2. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409)
  3. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)
  4. ↑ VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
  5. ↑ Royal Decree of February 22, 1867 Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau of March 11, 1867, § 8 and 9
  6. ↑ GS 1885, p. 229