Office Blankenburg

The Office Blankenburg was a judicial and administrative district in the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter Oberherrschaft with its seat in Blankenburg .

history

In 1208 the Counts of Schwarzburg acquired the office from the Reichsgut as an imperial fief. From 1274 it belonged to Schwarzburg-Blankenburg, from 1574 to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Between 1560 and January 1, 1829 the office was co-administered by Rudolstadt. Since 1829 the seat of the office was in Blankenburg.

scope

The office included the following locations:

• Böhl disks
• Braunsdorf
• Cordobang
• Dittersdorf
• Geilsdorf (1812 to Amt Ilm)
• Groschwitz , group of houses near Lichstedt, 1829 to Amt Rudolstadt
• Kleingölitz
• Keilhau , 1829 to the Rudolstadt office
• Kleingölitz
• Leutnitz
• Oberwirbach
• Schwarza , 1829 to the Rudolstadt office
• Solsdorf
• Thälendorf
• Unterwirbach (condomium)
• Watzdorf
• Pointer home

tasks

The Blankenburg office was initially a court of first instance and at the same time a lower administrative authority. There was no separation of jurisdiction from administration .

The March Revolution also led in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt to the demand for the abolition of the patrimonial courts and the separation of judiciary and administration.

On July 1, 1850, the organizational laws came into force, which fundamentally changed the judiciary. The legal basis was the law on the future administration of justice of May 1, 1850 and the law on the jurisdiction of courts and the appeal of civil disputes. The patrimonial courts were abolished and administration and jurisdiction separated.

The office was now a purely judicial office, i.e. a court of first instance with a judicial officer as a single judge. The District Court of Rudolstadt stood above it . The administrative tasks were transferred to the newly created District Office in Rudolstadt .

In the reaction era , the separation of jurisdiction and administration was called into question again for reasons of cost. The ordinance on the organization of the lower state administrative authorities of May 1, 1858 repealed the district offices and assigned the administrative tasks to the judicial offices. At the request of the state parliament, the district offices were restored by a law of February 7, 1868 and the courts were again released from administrative duties. In this context, however, the Blankenburg office was finally abolished and its court district assigned to the Rudolstadt Justice Office .

Patrimonial courts

A number of patrimonial courts existed in the office . For these places and areas it was not the Blankenburg office, but the respective patrimonial court that was the entrance court.

dish	Seat	Art	Judge / Notes
Fröbitz Patrimonial Court	Froebitz	Upper and lower court	from Holleben
Lichstedt Patrimonial Court	Lichstedt	Inheritance and lower court	from Ketelhodt
Quittelsdorf Patrimonial Court	Quittelsdorf	Upper and lower court	von Wurm (until 1827, then domain)
Patrimonial Court Storchsdorf	Stork village		to Quittelsdorf
Patrimonial Unterrottenbach	Unterrottenbach		to Quittelsdorf

The city of Blankenburg had its own jurisdiction.

literature

• Ulrich Hess: History of the state authorities in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . G. Fischer, Jena / Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-334-60503-5 , pp. 135-136

Individual evidence

1. ^ GS Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1850, p. 423
2. ↑ GS Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1858, pp. 117–118
3. ↑ GS Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1868, pp. 130-106