Fürstenau office

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The office of Fürstenau 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

When the county was divided in 1718, the Fürstenau office came into the possession of the Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau . Here was the Erbacher law and - subsidiary - the Common Law when the Erbacher right for a fact no provision offered. This legal situation was until 1 January 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced

With the Rhine Federation 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-Fürstenau 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 Fürstenau office was dissolved in 1822. Its administrative tasks were now taken over by the district council of Erbach , the jurisdiction was handled by the Michelstadt district court.

scope

The parishes belonged to the office of Fürstenau

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 109.
  2. ↑ Grand Ducal resolution of May 21, 1822 on the formation of the district administration district Erbach and the district court districts Fürstenau and Beerfelden . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 18 of June 17, 1822, pp. 199f.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ At Steinbuch ( Steinbuch, Odenwaldkreis . In: LAGIS : Historisches Ortslexikon ; as of October 16, 2018).