Office Fritzlar

Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel
Office Fritzlar
Office Fritzlar in 1694, copper engraving by the Mainz cartographer Nikolaus Person
main place	Fritzlar
founding	1803
resolution	1821
Incorporated into	Fritzlar district
Villages and hamlets	2 (from 1818: 8)
Cities	1

The Fritzlar office , in the north Hessian town of Fritzlar , was electoral Mainz until 1803 and then electoral Hesse .

Fritzlar had been part of Mainz's sphere of influence since the 11th century. At the beginning of the 14th century, the two neighboring villages Rothhelmshausen and Unthought were added; it was donations or sales from the von Löwenstein family to the St. Petri monastery in Fritzlar.

Until recently, only the town of Fritzlar and the two neighboring villages of Rothhelmshausen and Unthought belonged to the Mainz office of Fritzlar. It was a Mainz exclave , surrounded on three sides by the Landgrave of Hesse , later Hesse-Kassel , on the fourth side bordering the county or the principality of Waldeck .

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the office fell to what was now the Electorate of Hesse and became the core of the new, nominal principality of Fritzlar , which also included the former Electoral Mainz enclaves of Amöneburg , Neustadt and Naumburg in northern Hesse and the Katzenberg court on the northern edge of the Vogelsberg .

During the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) the office was converted into a cantonal administration . After the end of the kingdom, the previous administrative structure was reintroduced.

Compared to the other Kurhessischen offices, the Fritzlar office was initially extremely small. With an edict of October 22, 1818, it then received the places Cappel , Geismar , Haddamar and Obermöllrich from the Gudensberg office and the Wabern and Zennern places from the Homberg office .

Three years later, with the organizational edict of June 29, 1821 of the Electorate of Hesse, the administration of justice was separated. With regard to the administrative function, the Fritzlar office was merged with the Jesberg and Gudensberg offices and parts of the Borken and Homberg offices to form the Fritzlar district. At the same time, the Fritzlar Office was converted into the Fritzlar Judicial Office as a court of first instance with regard to jurisdiction .

literature

• Friedrich Schunder: The Fritzlar-Homberg district , 1960, pp. 53–54.
• Erich Klibansky: The topographical development of the Electoral Mainz offices in Hessen, dissertation, 1925, pp. 49-53, online
• Georg Landau : Description of the Electorate of Hesse . Theodor Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 255 ff . ( PDF 42.6MB [accessed March 15, 2013]).

Footnotes

1. ↑ SG 1818, p. 114.
2. ^ "Fritzlar, Schwalm-Eder district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).