Office of Bensheim
The office of Bensheim (during the Electoral Mainz period: Amtsvogtei Bensheim ) was a historical administrative unit in Kurmainz and from 1803 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and until 1821 of the Grand Duchy of Hessen in its province of Starkenburg . In 1821 the Bensheim office was incorporated into the newly created district of Bensheim .
history
In 765, Bensheim was first mentioned in a document as a Basinsheim in the Codex Laureshamensis of the Lorsch Monastery . When Frederick II took over the territory of the now run-down imperial abbey Lorsch Archbishop Siegfried III. Eppstein to feud was, Bensheim 1232 kurmainzisch . In the following years Bensheim belonged to the " Zent Heppenheim " of the office and later "Oberamt Starkenburg" . In 1782 Kurmainz carried out an administrative reform in which Bensheim received its own district bailiwick . It was subordinate to the “Oberamt Starkenburg” of the “Lower Archbishopric” in the “Electorate of Mainz” . The administrative bailiffs in Heppenheim, Lorsch and Fürth also belonged to the Oberamt.
Through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, which implemented the provision of the Peace of Lunéville and replaced territory lost to the German princes, the "Oberamt Starkenburg" fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt. This created the Principality of Starkenburg , in which the old and new Landgrave Hessian-Darmstadt areas east of the Rhine and south of the Main were combined. These changes were confirmed by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , and in 1816 the principality was renamed Province as part of an administrative reform. The "Amtsvogtei Bensheim" was continued as "Amt Bensheim" under Hessian rule until 1821, whereas the Oberamt was dissolved in 1805.
On August 14, 1806, in the course of the founding of the Rhine Confederation , promoted by Napoleon I , against the provision of high military contingents to France, the elevations to the Grand Duchy of Hesse took place for Hesse-Darmstadt , accompanied by the withdrawal of Hesse-Darmstadt from the Holy Roman Empire Nation . The end of the old empire had already been sealed by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and ceased to exist with the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806 by Emperor Franz II .
With the administrative reform in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1820/1821, district districts were formed and the Bensheim office was assigned to the newly created district of Bensheim .
territory
When taken over by the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt, the Bensheim office includes:
literature
- Konrad Dahl: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch or church history of the Upper Rhinegau, history and statistics of the monastery and principality of Lorsch together with a historical topography of the offices of Heppenheim, Bensheim, Lorsch, Fürth, Gernsheim, Hirschhorn and others Stahl, Darmstadt 1812.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB 013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 45 ( online at google books ).
- ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 15 ( online at google books ).