Burg-Gemünden Office

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The Burg-Gemünden office was an office of the Landgraviate and, most recently, of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

function

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

history

The Burg-Gemünden office came to the Landgraviate of Hesse with the Ziegenhain inheritance . When the Landgraviate was divided after the death of Landgrave Philip I in 1567, it finally became part of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which then became the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806.

In 1820 the Burg-Gemünden office was dissolved and the Homberg an der Ohm office was added. However, this was also dissolved during the administrative reform in the Grand Duchy in 1821. With this reform, justice and administration were also separated at the lower level, district councils were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and regional courts and the offices were dissolved for the first instance jurisdiction. The administrative functions of the Office Homberg at the Ohm were on the District District Kirtorf , the case-law to the district court at the Homberg Ohm transmitted, the Office Homberg at the Ohm dissolved.

Components

At the end of the Old Kingdom , the following municipalities belonged to the Burg-Gemünden office :

Law

Common law applied in the Burg-Gemünden office . It retained its validity throughout the 19th century and was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

literature

  • L. Ewald: Contributions to regional studies . In: Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862.

Remarks

  1. ^ In the property of Baron Schenk zu Schweinsberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burg-Gemünden, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  2. ^ Burg-Gemünden, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403ff.
  4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 408.
  5. ↑ Ewald, p. 52.
  6. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, map.