Dieburg Office

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The Dieburg office was an office of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and subsequently of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

function

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

scope

The Dieburg office consisted of the municipalities

The area of ​​the Dieburg office lay on the boundaries of today's communities of Dieburg, Groß -zimmer , Rodgau and Rödermark .

history

prehistory

The Dieburg office already existed before its transfer to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt under the name of Amtsvogtei Dieburg in the Electorate of Mainz . Here it was subordinate to the Upper Archbishopric and the Oberamt Steinheim .

Dieburg Office

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Kurmainz was dissolved in 1803 and the Oberamt Steinheim with the district bailiff Dieburg was added to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt, which was renamed in 1806 as the "Grand Duchy of Hessen". The name of the office changed to "Amt Dieburg". It was subordinated to the province of Starkenburg .

With the implementing ordinance of December 9, 1803, the judicial system of the two higher authorities in the Grand Duchy was reorganized. The offices - including the Dieburg office - remained the first instance of jurisdiction in civil matters .

The End

In 1821/22 there was an administrative reform in the Grand Duchy. With it, jurisdiction and administration were separated at the lower level. District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The Dieburg office was smashed and the communities in its district distributed. With regard to the administrative tasks previously performed by the Dieburg Office, Dieburg and Klein-Zimmer were assigned to the district of Dieburg and, with regard to jurisdiction, to the Umstadt district court . The municipalities of Ober-Roden and Nieder-Roden, on the other hand, were assigned to the district of Langen with regard to administration and to the Langen district court with regard to jurisdiction .

Law

In the Dieburg office , the Mainz land law , which was last formally reintroduced in the entire electoral state in 1755, was considered a particular law . The common law also applied, as far as the Mainz land law did not contain special regulations for a matter. It remained in effect throughout the 19th century when the area belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Until 1 January 1900, the particular law of the same across the whole was German Reich current Civil Code replaced.

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.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ewald, p. 45, no. 198-201.
  2. ^ Dieburg, Darmstadt-Dieburg district . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary; As of October 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Ewald, p. 45.
  4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 403ff.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, pp. 405f.
  6. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 406.
  7. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 405.
  8. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, pp. 16, 109.