Braunfels Office
The Braunfels office was a Solmser , Nassau-Weilburger , ducal Nassauer and Prussian office with its seat in Braunfels . The office opened in the Braunfels district .
The Braunfels office included the towns of Albshausen , Altenberg , Bonbaden , Braunfels , Burgsolms , Kraftsolms , Kröffelbach , Griedelbach , Laufdorf , Leun , Münchholzhausen , Nauborn , Neukirchen , Niederbiel , Niederquembach , Niederwetz , Oberbiel , Oberndorf , Oberquembach , Oberwetz , Schwalbach , Steindorf and Tiefenbach .
The Braunfels office was the center of the Principality of Solms-Braunfels , a branch of the House of Solms that emerged from an inheritance in 1409. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 Solms lost its imperial immediacy and the office became part of Nassau-Weilburg. With the establishment of the Duchy of Nassau in 1806, the Braunfels Office also became part of the new Duchy.
In 1816 the office was handed over to Prussia as part of an area swap. There it became the core of the new Braunfels district.
Professional office
Despite the mediatization in 1803, the princes of Solms-Braunfels retained civil rights in office. Organizationally, these rights were administered in the Duke of Nassau, Princely Solmsches Amt Braunfels . The Prince of Solms-Braunfels retained the church patronage (restricted by a duty to present to the duke). The school teachers were appointed in the same way by the count after presentation. The count retained the law of lower jurisdiction, including forest jurisdiction . Furthermore, the count's rights from tithes and comparable taxes remained.
On October 30, 1809, the princely consistory in Braunfels was dissolved and the ducal consistory in Wiesbaden took over the church administration. On the same day, the princely law office was also dissolved.
literature
- Otto Rudolf Kissel : Modern Territorial and Legal History of the State of Hesse , 1961, p. 128.