Altenhaßlau Office

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The Altenhaßlau office was an office of the Hanau rulership , later the Hanau county and then the Hanau-Munzenberg county , the Hanau principality and the Hanau province in the Electorate of Hesse.

Town hall in Altenhaßlau

function

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

history

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The Altenhaßlau court emerged from a court district of the Gelnhausen Palatinate . Originally it was a fiefdom of the Diocese of Würzburg to that of Trimberg , which is first documented for the year 1279. When it was foreseeable in 1362 that the last Trimberger would die without a feudal heir, he sold the court to Ulrich III. from Hanau. After the Trimbergs died out, Ulrich IV. Von Hanau received the Altenhaßlau court in 1377 as a fief from Bishop Gerhard von Schwarzburg .

At the head of the subjects of the Altenhaßlau court were four master craftsmen . After the imperial city of Gelnhausen was pledged to Hanau and the Electoral Palatinate in 1326 by King Ludwig IV and again in 1349 by King Karl IV - one of the Märker from the Palatinate and one from the imperial city of Gelnhausen had to be chosen.

Office

In the course of the territorialization of the County of Hanau, the medieval court Altenhaßlau was more and more transformed into an office Altenhaßlau of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg. A striking sign of this was that in 1561 the Zentgraf was replaced by a mayor .

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, Landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel inherited the County of Hanau-Münzenberg and with it the Altenhaßlau office on the basis of an inheritance contract from 1643. In 1821 there was a fundamental administrative reform ( separation of jurisdiction from administration ) and the formation of districts as a territorial unit for internal administration in Hessen-Kassel, which has been known as the “ Electorate of Hesse ” since 1803 by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The Altenhaßlau office belonged to the newly formed Gelnhausen district . With the Hessian territorial reform this (since 1946 district) went up in 1974 in the Main-Kinzig district .

Territorial division

The following places belonged to the Altenhaßlau office:

The affiliation of the place Ziegelhaus to the office Altenhaßlau was disputed between Hanau and Gelnhausen. This led to centuries of dispute between the city and the Lords and Counts of Hanau , including trials before the Reich Chamber of Commerce .

Officer

literature

  • Altenhaßlau - Contributions to History . Altenhaßlau 1990.
  • Contributions to the 750 year history of Altenhaßlau . = Publications of the home and history association Linsengericht.
  • Walter Engel: Grenzland - history (s) at the Schandelbach. The court Altenhaßlau (Hanau) versus Ysenburg-Meerholz (Hailer) . In: Mitteilungsblatt der Heimatstelle Main-Kinzig-Kreis 21 , 1 (1996), pp. 26–31.
  • Johann Lorenz Kreuter: Relationship between Gelnhausen and the former Märkergericht Altenhaßlau . In: Gelnhusana . Supplement to the circle sheet, No. 24 and 25 (1908), pp. 113-119.
  • Regenerus Engelhard: Description of the earth of the Hessian Lands of Casselischen Antheiles with notes from history and from documents explained, part 2 . Cassel 1778, ND 2004, pp. 786f

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900–1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 209 .
  2. ↑ Ordinance of August 30th, 1821, concerning the new division of the area , Annex: Overview of the new division of the Electorate of Hesse according to provinces, districts and judicial districts. Collection of laws etc. for the Electoral Hesse states. Year 1821 - No. XV. - August., ( Kurhess GS 1821) p. 69 (70-77)
  3. ^ Ordinance of June 29, 1821 on the restructuring of the previous state administration . In: (Collection of laws, ordinances, invitations to tender and other general orders for Kurhessen from 1821, Hof- und Waisenhaus-Druckerei, Cassel) kurhess GS 1821, pp. 29–62 ; also in: Wilhelm Möller and Karl Fuchs (eds.): Collection of the legal provisions still valid in the Electorate of Hesse from 1813 to 1860. Elwert'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Marburg and Leipzig 1866, pp. 311–351
  4. ↑ Hochfuerstl. Hessen-Casselischer Staats- und Adreß-Kalender (1787), p. 165/7 ( digitized version )