Office Dorheim

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The Dorheim office was an office of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg and its successor states.

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.

Components

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The Dorheim office consisted of the villages

Emergence

The Dorheim office was newly formed in 1597 under the government of Count Philipp Ludwig II. From two components, a total of four villages and one condominium portion . This step was part of a major restructuring of his county in the year after he took office personally - he had been under tutelage until 1596 .

The village of Nauheim came to Hanau-Münzenberg at the end of the 15th century as compensation and compensation for debts that the Seligenstadt monastery had with Count Philipp I of Hanau-Münzenberg . The villages of Dorheim , Rödgen and Schwalheim, on the other hand, were pledged by the Counts of Stolberg in 1572 to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg and finally sold in 1578. Due to the saltworks in Nauheim, the Dorheim office in the county was of great economic importance.

history

The Reformation was gradually introduced in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg in the middle of the 16th century . This happened first in the Lutheran sense. In a "second Reformation", the denomination of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg was changed again: From 1597 Count Philipp Ludwig II pursued a decidedly reformed church policy. He made use of the Jus reformandi , his right as sovereign to determine the denomination of his subjects, and made this largely binding for the County of Hanau-Munzenberg, including in the Dorheim office.

As in the rest of the county of Hanau-Münzenberg, the Solms land law became common law at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries . The Common Law applied only if the rules contained the Solmser land rights for a fact no provisions. The Solms land law remained valid in the Dorheim office in the 19th century, even in the Electoral Hesse and Grand Ducal Hessian times. It was not until the Civil Code of January 1, 1900, which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was largely overridden.

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , In 1736, Landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel inherited the County of Hanau-Münzenberg and with it the Dorheim office on the basis of an inheritance contract from 1643. In 1803 the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel was made electoral prince . In 1806 the Dorheim office came under French administration, as France occupied the Electorate of Hesse because it refused to join the Confederation of the Rhine . On May 11, 1810, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and France signed a state treaty with which France gave territories that it had taken from Electorate Hesse in 1806 to the Grand Duchy. The treaty concluded in May was not signed by Napoléon until October 17, 1810. The Hessian occupation patent dated November 10, 1810 and also included the Dorheim office . After the Congress of Vienna , it returned to the Electorate of Hesse in 1816. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, in the course of which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the Dorheim office became part of the newly formed Hanau district . At that time it had 2,119 inhabitants. At the same time, the administration was organizationally separated from the jurisdiction. The Dorheim Justice Office was set up for the first instance jurisdiction . In 1847 the justice office was relocated to Nauheim and was now called the “justice office Nauheim”.

During this entire time, the Dorheim office formed an exclave , completely surrounded by foreign territory, most recently that of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Nassau office of Reichelsheim . After the war of 1866 , Prussia annexed the Electorate of Hesse, but gave the office of Nauheim to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 . There it was incorporated into the Friedberg district, which belonged to the province of Upper Hesse .

Today Rödgen and Schwalheim are districts of Bad Nauheim, Dorheim is a district of Friedberg (Hesse) .

literature

  • Erich Brücher: The return of the Dorheim office to Kurhessen on July 12, 1816 . In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 34 (1985), pp. 87-94.
  • Regnerus Engelhard: Earth description of the Hessian Lands Casselischen Antheiles with notes from history and from documents explained . Part 2. Cassel 1778, ND 2004, p. 782f.
  • Fritz Herrmann: To the population statistics of the office Dorheim . In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 4 (1954), p. 147.
  • Fritz Herrmann: The subjects of Dorheim, Schwalheim, Rödgen in 1600 . In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 5 (1956), pp. 222-224.
  • Herbert Pauschardt: From the history of a village in the Wettertal - Rödgen = Festschrift for the 750th anniversary (2010) of the Bad Nauheim district. Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Bad Nauheim. Bad Nauheim 2010.
  • Regina Schäfer: The Lords of Eppstein = Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2000, p. 434.
  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.
  • Alexander Schneider: The Bad Nauheim District Court . In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 34 (1985), pp. 137-142.
  • Alexander Schneider: The Justice Office Dorheim (Nauheim) . In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 32 (1983), pp. 157-167.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pauschardt, p. 33.
  2. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 75, note 65, as well as the enclosed map.
  3. ^ Text (in French ) in: Schmidt, p. 30ff, note 100.
  4. ↑ Schmidt, p. 30.
  5. ↑ Schmidt, p. 33.
  6. ↑ Zimmermann, p. 772.
  7. ^ Johann Peter Eyring: The district of Hanau . In: Georg-Wilhelm Hanna (arrangement): The district of Hanau and its district administrators . Ed .: Kreissparkasse Hanau . Hanau 1989, p. 7.
  8. ↑ Art. 15, No. 2 of the Peace Treaty, printed by: Ernst Rudolf Huber: Documents on German Constitutional History 2 = German Constitutional Documents 1851–1900. 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3-17-001845-0 , No. 192, pp. 260ff.