Office Allendorf an der Lumda

The Allendorf an der Lumbda office was an office of the Landgraviate of Hesse and, most recently, of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

function

In the Middle Ages and early modern times , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereign rulership . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.

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history

When the country was divided after the death of Landgrave Philip I, the Magnanimous , in 1567 the office fell to the newly formed Landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg and after this branch line died out in 1604, inheritance disputes, a contract in 1627 between the Marburg heirs, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel and the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , as well as ongoing inheritance disputes ( Hessian Wars ), it finally fell to Hessen-Darmstadt in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia , which then became the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806 . The court of Londorf , a patrimonial court of Messrs. Nordeck zur Rabenau , belonged to the office .

In 1821/22 there was an administrative reform in the Grand Duchy. With it, jurisdiction and administration were separated at the lower level. For the previously perceived in the offices of management tasks District districts created for the first-instance jurisdiction district courts . The Allendorf an der Lumbda office was dissolved. His administrative tasks were transferred to the district of Gießen , the jurisdiction he had previously exercised to the district court of Gießen .

Components

When the Grand Duchy of Hesse was founded in 1806, the Allendorf an der Lumbda office consisted of

• the city of Allendorf (Lumda) and
• the court of Londorf , consisting of
  • Allertshausen ,
  • Climbach ,
  • Geilshausen ,
  • Kesselbach ,
  • Londorf ,
  • Odenhausen ,
  • Rüddingshausen and
  • Weitershain .

Law

Common law applied in the Giessen office . It retained its validity as a particular law throughout the 19th century while the area belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

literature

• L. Ewald: Contributions to regional studies . In: Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862, p. 39ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ewald, p. 50.
2. ↑ Ewald, p. 52.
3. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt dated July 21, 1821, pp. 403ff.
4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 407f.
5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 408.
6. ↑ Ewald, p. 52.
7. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 100 u. Map.