Office Freienstein

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The Freienstein office was an office in the county of Erbach and in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . It was named after the Freienstein Castle .

Freienstein Castle
Beerfeld gallows

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 Zent Beerfelden (or Obercent ) was a medieval judicial and administrative district. The Beerfeld gallows , the largest and best preserved in Germany, is witness to this central court . It was originally part of the Mark Heppenheim and with this property of the Lorsch Monastery . As part of the dispute between the Count Palatinate , the Erbach and Kurmainz taverns , the cent came to Erbach.

The Obercent included Beerfelden, Hetzbach , Schöllenbach , Hohberg , Ober-Sensbach , Unter-Sensbach ober der Linde, Gammelsbach , Airlenbach , Olfen , Etzean , Ober-Finkenbach , Falken-Gesäß , Hinterbach and Raubach . The Freienstein Office also included other places where Erbach only had the Vogtei , but which were legally assigned to other cents. Unter-Sensbach unter der Linde and Hebstahl belonged to Cent Eberbach (Pfalz) . Hesselbach , Kailbach and Galmbach belonged to the Mudauer Cent (Kurmainz). The Obercent also included the following places, which were not assigned to the Freienstein Office, but to the Fürstenau Office : Güttersbach , Hiltersklingen and Hüttenthal .

When the county was divided in 1718, the Freienstein 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 only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

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 Freienstein office was dissolved in 1822. Its administrative tasks were now taken over by the district of Erbach , the district court of Beerfelden was responsible for the jurisdiction .

scope

The localities belonged to the Amt Freienstein

Remarks

  1. ↑ The municipality of Galmbach was dissolved in 1836 and its district was given the name "Eduardsthal" ( Galmbach, Odenwaldkreis . In: LAGIS : Historisches Ortslexikon ; as of April 30, 2018).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country, 1858, pp. 100–89, 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 Erbach and the district court districts Fürstenau 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. ↑ Hoberg Hof . In: LAGIS LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of April 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ Leonhardshof, Odenwaldkreis . In: LAGIS. Historical local dictionary ; As of April 30, 2018.