Office Biedenkopf

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Hessian hinterland (excluding the Vöhl exclave ) 1815–1866

The Office Biedenkopf was from the beginning of the 14th to early 19th century, a historic administrative unit in the northwestern part of the country Hessen County in the area of the later province of Upper Hesse . In addition to the administration (duties, taxes, etc.), it was also responsible for jurisdiction. It essentially comprised the area of ​​today's municipalities of Dautphetal and Biedenkopf and existed until 1821.

history

The office was established towards the end of the 13th century by the Landgrave of Hesse in the area of ​​the old Mark Dautphe and consisted of the Biedenkopf city court , the Daupthe court and the Dexbach court . Already in 1302, a bailiff called in Biedenkopf, notably known as bailiff but only Sigfried of Biedenfeld 1334. With the Hessian division in 1567 much of the Hessian part of the office first of Hesse-Marburg and the extinction of the line in 1604 to the Hesse-Kassel . Between 1604 and 1648 there were disputes and armed conflict between Hesse-Darmstadt and Hesse-Kassel about the office and about the entire Marburg heritage . (See Hessenkrieg .) It was not until the contracts of 1827 and 1848 between the two parties that these disputes ended and the office was finally awarded to Hessen-Darmstadt. The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) was reorganized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and ceased to exist with the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806. In 1806 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Hesse, which was formed under pressure from Napoleon .

In the course of the Grand Ducal Hessian administrative reform of 1821, the Biedenkopf office together with the offices of Blankenstein, Battenberg and Vöhl was dissolved in favor of the districts of Battenberg and Gladenbach . As part of the separation of administration and justice , the office's judicial function was transferred to the Gladenbach District Court and the Battenberg District Court .

location

The office was in the so-called "Hessian hinterland" , which essentially shared its history. The Biedenkopf office was surrounded from the north in a clockwise direction by the offices of Battenberg , Wetter , ( Kaldern ,) Marburg , Blankenstein and the Breidenbacher Grund .

Structure of the office

In addition to the Biedenkopf city court, the Dautphe court and the Dexbach court also belonged to the office .

Court of Dautphe

The court Dautphe included the places Allendorf , Amelose , Buchenau , Dautphe , Damshausen , Eckelshausen , Friedensdorf with the Neumühle, the Ortmühle and the Schmelzmühle, Herzhausen , Holzhausen , Hommertshausen , Katzenbach , Kombach , Mornshausen , Silberg and Wolfgruben .

Dexbach Court

The court Dexbach included the place Dexbach with the upper mill and the lower mill and the place Engelbach .

Bailiffs

  • Johann Georg Zühl, 1738

literature

  • Karl Huth: The district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Administrative, economic and social history . District committee of the district, Wetzlar 1979.
  • Landgrave Hessian State and Address Calendar , 1794, p. 197 ( Google Books )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 points 1) and 6d) ( online at google books ).
  2. ↑ Grand-Ducal Ordinance “Regarding the division of the country into district councils and district courts” of July 14, 1821; in: Hess. Reg.Bl. 1821, p. 409
  3. ^ Zühl, Johann Georg in the Hessian Biography