Office of Butzbach

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The office of Butzbach was an office of the Landgraviate and last 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

As part of the Munzenberg inheritance , Butzbach came into the possession of the Falkenstein family in 1244 . In 1271 Butzbach became the seat of a separate branch of this family. The Falkensteiner family died with the death of Werner III. 1418 in male line. The ownership was transferred to the Lords of Eppstein (3/4) and the Counts of Solms (1/4).

Two quarters of the Eppstein share was added to the Eppstein-Munzenberg lines in 1433 when the Eppstein fraternities were divided, and one quarter from Eppstein-Königstein. Gottfried X. von Eppstein-Münzenberg pledged a quarter for 26,000 guilders to Otto von Solms in 1464 and sold it in 1478. In 1478 he also sold the other quarter for 40,000 guilders to Count Philipp von Katzenellenbogen. After Eppstein-Königstein died out, its quarter fell to Stolberg and then in 1581 to Kurmainz . In 1595, Landgrave Ludwig IV acquired the Electoral Mainz quarter for 26,000 guilders. In 1629 the Landgraviate acquired another quarter of Solms-Lich. The Butzbach office now belonged to three quarters of the Landgraviate of Hesse and one quarter to Solms-Braunfels .

With the division of the state in 1567, the Butzbach office was part of Hesse-Marburg and after its end and decades of disputes, it was given the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt .

From 1609 to 1643, the Butzbach office was the independent Landgraviate of Hessen-Butzbach under Landgrave Philipp III during a renewed division of the state .

The Butzbach office had belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt at least since 1741, when the latter acquired the last share from the former condominium of the city rulership over Butzbach. The Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt became the Grand Duchy of Hessen in 1806. Here the office was in the province of Upper Hesse .

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy. In 1821 the judiciary and administration were also separated at the lower level and all offices were dissolved. District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed by the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The administrative tasks of the former Butzbach office were transferred to the Butzbach district council and jurisdiction to the Friedberg district court .

Components

At the end of the Old Kingdom , the following municipalities belonged to the Butzbach office :

Law

In the Butzbach office the common law applied , in the city of Butzbach also - and primarily - the municipal law of Butzbach . These particular rights retained their validity throughout the 19th century and were 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. ↑ Assigned to Nassau in 1803 (Ewald, p. 53).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Ernst Christian Schmidt: History of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Volume 2, 1819, pp. 153 ff., Digitized
  2. ↑ Ewald, p. 54.
  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. 409.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 410.
  6. ↑ Ehwald, p. 53.
  7. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. Map.