Office of Ahna

The Amt Ahna was an administrative and judicial district of the Landgraviate of Hesse , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and the Electorate of Hesse that existed from the 15th century to 1821 .

history

A court in the valley of the ancestors (or Ahna) has been documented since the 13th century , referred to as a court on the Ahna or Ahna court. The place of jurisdiction was initially Frommershausen , later the seat was moved to Kassel . The dish was divided into different ladle chairs . In the 15th century, the Hasungen Bailiwick ( Hasungen Monastery in Burghasungen ) was assigned to the Ahna court.

The court thus included the following places: Frommershausen, Niedervellmar , Mönchehof , Wolfsanger , Sandershausen , Ihringshausen , Mühlhausen (desert), Weimar , Rimouthusum (desert), Ruchotsen (desert), Druhtolveshusun (desert), Sirgisen (desert), Harleshausen , Heckershausen , Germarshusen (desert), Obervellmar , Luiteuuardeshusun (desert), Blumenstein (desert), Dörnberg , Friedrichstein , Bolgersum (desert), Simmershausen , Rothwesten , Knickhagen , Winterbüren , Altunfeld (desert), Hof Eichenberg, Barghusen (desert), Rudofishusen (desert), Rudofishusen ), Ruwenhoff (desert), Teckirshuff (desert). Other sources mention : Kalenberg , Gut Kragenhof , Hohenkirchen , Grossenhof , Deckershausen (desert), Wehlheiden (most recently in the Bauna office ) and Fasanenhof . In modern times it was mainly referred to as Amt Ahna.

From the 16th century onwards, the offices around the capital Kassel were centralized . The two offices to the left of the Fulda (next to the Amt Ahna, the Amt Bauna ) and the Amt Kassel-Neustadt to the right of the Fulda were administered from Kassel in personal union by the same bailiff or rentmaster. This personal union was only abolished from 1804 onwards. With regard to the jurisprudence, an inter-departmental structure was created again in 1814 with the formation of a city court (for the city of Kassel) and a district court of Kassel (for the rural communities of all three offices).

After the end of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel in 1806, the area became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . The administrative structure of the Kingdom of Westphalia took no account of historically grown structures and the administrative area was assigned to the Department of Fulda , Kassel district .

In 1813 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel was re-established as the Electorate of Hessen. The old administrative structure was restored and the Ahna office was rebuilt. It now consisted of Frommershausen , Niedervellmar , Mönchehof , Wolfsanger , Sandershausen , Ihringshausen , Weimar , Harleshausen , Heckershausen , Obervellmar , Dörnberg , Friedrichstein , Simmershausen , Rothwesten , Knickhagen , Winterbüren , Barghusen (desert), Kalenberg , Gut Kragenhof , Hohenkirchen , Großenhof and Fasanenhof .

In 1821 the separation of the administration of justice was introduced there. Administrative tasks were taken over by the district of Kassel , and court tasks by the district court of Kassel . The Ahna office, which had 4,448 inhabitants at the time of the dissolution, was canceled.

Officer

Officials and renters of the Kassel offices

Conradus Gotze (1467–1472)
Johannes Reymboldt (1475)
Hermann Furinsland (1403)
Book (1704, 1713)
Joh. Heinrich Halberstadt (1764–1766)
Friedrich August Wilhelm Faber (1767–1778)
Amelung (1781–1787)
Caspar Avenarius (1788–1796)
Georg Wilhelm Hozzel (1798–1803)

Bailiffs Office Ahna

Bernhard Hausmann (1804-1815)
Jon Brethauer (1816-1817)
Joh. Jac. Müller (1818-1820)

Rentmeister Amt Ahna

Bernhard Hausmann (1804–1806)
L. Wegner (1814)
J. Frommer (1815-1820)

literature

Margarete Eisträger, Eberhard Krug: Territorialgeschichte der Kasseler Landschaft, 1935, esp. Pp. 92–121, 272–274.
Georg Landau : Description of the Hessengau, Volume 2 of Description of the German Gaue, 2nd edition, 1866, p. 74, digitized .
Collection of laws, ordinances, tenders and other general orders for Kurhessen, Volume 3, 1822, p. 70, digitized
Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender: 1818, S. 1 ff., Digitized