Office Dillenburg

Map of the Dillenburg Office 1828

The office of Dillenburg was a Nassau-Orange until 1806 and 1813 to 1815 and from 1816 a ducal Nassau office with its seat in Dillenburg . The office was opened in 1866 in the Dill district .

history

Orange

Before the middle of the 16th century, Nassau-Dillenburg was divided into the offices of Siegen and Dillenburg. These in turn were divided into different dishes. These were each headed by a mayor appointed by the sovereign. The Dillenburg office included the courts: Dillenburg , Herborn , Haiger , Ebersbach and Tringenstein .

In 1806 the office fell to the Grand Duchy of Berg and thus to Napoleon's brother-in-law Joachim Murat , who introduced an administrative structure based on the French revolutionary model . The offices were dissolved and arrondissements, cantons and departments were set up instead. In Dillenburg, the canton of Dillenburg was established in the Dillenburg arrondissement . Soon after the Battle of Leipzig , the Grand Duchy dissolved and Nassau-Orange got its territories back. After it was returned to Nassau-Orange in 1813, the previous Orange offices, including the Dillenburg office, were re-established in their old form.

Duchy of Nassau

On May 31, 1815, Orange ceded the hereditary lands to Prussia . Prussia in turn swapped territories with the Duchy of Nassau, so that the Dillenburg office now became part of the Duchy. When the office was reformed on July 1, 1816, the Dillenburg office remained in place, but was extensively expanded. It existed until 1866 from Dillenburg , Allendorf , Mountain Ebersbach , Dill Brecht , Donsbach , Eibach , Eibelshausen , Eyenshausen , Fellerdilln , Flammersbach , Frohnhausen , Haiger , Haigerseelbach , Hirzenhain , Langenaubach , almonds , Manderbach , Nanzenbach , Neuhütte , Niederroßbach , Niederscheld , Oberrossbach , Oberscheld , Offdilln , Rittershausen , Rodenbach , Sechshelden , Steinbach , Steinbrücken , Strassebersbach , Weidelbach and Wissenbach .

In 1820 the office counted 31 community districts, including 2 cities, 30 villages and 34 farms and mills. 3,669 families and 13,669 residents lived in the district. Of these, 13,489 were Protestant, 154 Catholic and 17 Mennonites.

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The administrative tasks of the Dillenburg office were carried out by the Herborn district office , the jurisdiction of the Dillenburg justice office. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

Prussia

With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia , the offices were also dissolved in their old form and replaced by circles. The Dillenburg Office formed the Dill District together with the Hadamar in 1867 . Administration and jurisdiction were only separated as part of this reorganization. For the jurisdiction in the first instance, which was previously carried out by the office, the judicial officials in the offices were initially responsible and the Dillenburg district court was formed on September 1, 1867 .

But even after the founding of the district, the previous office structure will be retained. The Royal Ordinance of February 22, 1867 regulated: "The administrative districts as narrower administrative districts exist in their previous limits" The former offices form the districts of the district. According to § 13 of the district constitution, the districts, i.e. the former offices, each sent six representatives to the new district council . The bailiff was in charge of the local police and the district administrator.

With the administrative reform of 1885/1886 the offices were finally dissolved.

Office building

Office building in Dillenburg

The office building in Dillenburg consists of two offset half-timbered buildings that form a small courtyard facing the Kirchberg. The rear building dates from 1595. The front building shows half-timbered forms, some of which still have claw locking, which can also be dated to the 16th century. The stately assembly corresponds to the type of a Burgmann's seat. For historical and urban planning reasons, the property is under monument protection as a cultural monument.

Bailiffs

Duchy of Nassau

• 1816–1825: Caesar Giese
• 1825–1830: Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor Chelius
• 1830–1843: Christian Philipp Freudenberg
• 1843–1849: Johann Friedrich Halbey
• 1854–1868: Georg Gottfried Metzler
• 1868–1872: Dr. jur. Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar Schultze
• 1872–1877: David Christian Schütz
• (1877–1880): Oskar Karl Heinrich Freytag
• (1880–1886): Friedrich Louis Krüger

literature

• Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815–1945, 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 148–149
• State and address manual for the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1821, p. 59 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annals of the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research : Volume 10, 1870, pp. 326–327 ( online )
2. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409).
3. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160).
4. ↑ VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
5. ↑ Royal Decree of February 22, 1867 Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau of March 11, 1867, § 8 and 9
6. ↑ GS 1885, p. 229
7. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Kirchberg (Dillenburg) 24 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse