Darmstadt Office

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The Darmstadt office was an office of the County of Katzenelnbogen and its legal successor, most recently the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

geography

location

The Darmstadt office occupied an area around Darmstadt . Most of the associated villages are now districts of Darmstadt or belong to neighboring Weiterstadt . The city of Darmstadt was the official seat.

Components

The Darmstadt Office included:

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

middle Ages

The Darmstadt office belonged to the County of Katzenelnbogen and there to the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen . 1457 married Anna von Katzenelnbogen, daughter of Philip the Elder, Landgrave Heinrich III. of Hessen. When Philip died in 1479, the County of Katzenelnbogen - and with it the Darmstadt Office - fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse .

Early modern age

When the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided under the heirs of Landgrave Philip I in 1567, the entire Upper County of Katzenelnbogen came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt .

Its first regent, Landgrave Georg I , arranged for the Landrecht collection of the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen , compiled by his Chancellor, Johann Kleinschmidt , to become legally binding. It applied in all municipalities of the Office Darmstadt as a particular law , subsidiary complemented by the Common Law , to the end of the 19th century. It was not until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was suspended.

Modern times and dissolution

With the collapse of the old order as a result of the French Revolution , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt also had to reorganize itself, above all to integrate the areas gained through secularization and mediatization into the state. The Principality of Starkenburg (later: Province of Starkenburg ) was formed from the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen and all areas south of the Main that now belonged to the Landgraviate, which also included the Darmstadt Office.

With the executive order of December 9, 1803, the judicial system of the two higher authorities was initially reorganized. The offices - including Darmstadt - remained the first instance of jurisdiction in civil matters . For the Principality of Starkenburg, the “Hofgericht Darmstadt” became the second instance court for civil matters. It was also responsible in the first instance for civil family matters and criminal matters . The higher appeal court in Darmstadt was superordinate to it . In 1806 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt became the Grand Duchy of Hessen .

In 1821 there was an administrative reform. With it, the court and administration were separated at the lowest level. District districts have been created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and district courts (in the Darmstadt case, called “City Court”) for jurisdiction in the first instance. The places of the former Darmstadt office were divided into different new district and district court districts:

local community District District District Court District
Arheilgen District of Langen District Court of Langen
Qualifications Darmstadt District District Darmstadt City Court
Braunshardt District of Langen District Court of Langen
Darmstadt Darmstadt District District Darmstadt City Court
Erzhausen District of Langen District Court of Langen
Graefenhausen District of Langen District Court of Langen
Kranichstein Darmstadt District District Darmstadt City Court
Schneppenhausen District of Langen District Court of Langen
Weiterstadt District of Langen District Court of Langen
Wixhausen District of Langen District Court of Langen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , inventory E 8 A No. 352/4 .
  2. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403.
  3. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape  1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 40 f . ( Online at google books ). .
  4. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 108f. and enclosed card.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403ff.
  6. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 405.
  7. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 405.
  8. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403.
  9. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403.