Office Erbach

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The so-called "temple house".

The office of Erbach was an office of the county of Erbach and in 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.

history

The center of Erbach was separated from the center of Michelstadt in the late Middle Ages and comprised Erbach, Dorf-Erbach , Ernsbach , Erbuch , Erlenbach , Lauerbach , Schönnen , Ebersberg , Haisterbach , Günterfürst , Elsbach and Roßbach .

When the county was divided in 1718, the Erbach office came into the possession of the family branch of the Counts of Erbach-Erbach . In the Erbach office , Erbach law and - subsidiary - common law applied if Erbach law did not provide any regulation for a matter. This particular law was until 1 January 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced

With the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806, the county of Erbach became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and here the province of Starkenburg . However, the Count of Erbach-Erbach continued to exercise sovereign rights in the area he had previously ruled; the state monopoly of force was shared here.

Between 1820 and 1822 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 Erbach office was dissolved in 1822. The administrative district of Erbach took over its administrative tasks , the jurisdiction was carried out by the Michelstadt district court.

scope

The localities belonged to the Erbach office

Official seat

The official seat was the temple house in Erbach.

Bailiffs

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country, 1858, pp. 89-100, digitized
  2. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 109.
  3. ↑ Grand Ducal resolution of May 21, 1822 on the formation of the district administration district of Erbach and the district court districts of Michelstadt and Beerfelden . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 18 of June 17, 1822, pp. 199f.
  4. ^ 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, p. 48.
  5. ↑ Grünewald, Johann Martin. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ Luck, Johann Philipp Wilhelm. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 1, 2020 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 28.9 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 30.2 ″  E