Grünberg office

The office of Grünberg was an office of the Landgraviate and most recently of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

function

In the Middle Ages and early modern times , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereign rulership . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.

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history

The Grünberg office was established in the catchment area of Grünberg Castle in the second half of the 13th century. The oldest mention of a Grünberg bailiff comes from 1269. In the 14th century the office was pledged several times: Before 1350, because in that year Landgrave Heinrich II paid back the pledge to Johann von Eisenbach. And in 1383 Gottfried von Schweinsberg and Wilhelm Schlitz confirmed to Landgrave Hermann II that he had paid them 1,000 guilders to redeem the pledge. In 1385 the Landgrave pledged Amt Grünberg to the knights Rorich and Johann von Eisenbach and their relatives. It must have been triggered again shortly afterwards, because in 1389 Dietrich Schutzbar was appointed as the Hessian bailiff for Grünberg. Since then the office has been Hessian without interruption.

During the division of the country after the death of Landgrave Philip I, the Magnanimous , in 1567 the office of Grünberg fell to the newly formed Landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg and, after this branch line died out in 1604 and the Hessian Wars in 1648, with the Peace of Westphalia, finally to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which then became the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806.

In 1821/22 there was an administrative reform in the Grand Duchy. With it, justice and administration were also 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 Grünberg office was dissolved. Its administrative tasks were transferred to the district of Grünberg , the jurisdiction to the district court of Grünberg .

Components

The office was subdivided into the district court Grünberg and the court Ober-Ohmen. At the end of the Old Kingdom , the following municipalities belonged to the Grünberg office :

• District Court Grünberg
  • Beltershain
  • Bollnbach
  • Solutions
  • Goebelnrod
  • Groß-Lumda
  • Grünberg
  • Haarbach
  • Ilsdorf
  • Cherry orchard (courtyard)
  • volume up
  • Lehnheim
  • Lindenstruth
  • Merlau
  • Queckborn
  • Reinhardshain
  • Saasen
  • Rod rod
  • Stockhausen
  • Veitsberg (courtyard)
  • Weickartshain
  • Wirberg

• Court of Nieder-Ohmen
  • Atzenhain
  • Bernsfeld
  • Königsaasen ( mill )
  • Klein-Lumda
  • Low ohms
  • Ober-Grubenbach ( mill )
  • Races
  • Windhain (courtyard)

Law

In the Grünberg office, the town and office custom of Grünberg was a particular right . As far as it did not contain any regulations, the common law applied subsidiary . This legal situation retained its validity throughout the 19th century and was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

Remarks

1. ↑ 1577: Merlau court , 1787: Grünberg district court ( Grünberg, Gießen district . In: LAGIS: Historisches Ortslexikon ; as of February 25, 2020).
2. ↑ 1577: Merlau court, 1787: Grünberg district court ( Grünberg, Gießen district . In: LAGIS: Historisches Ortslexikon ; as of February 25, 2020).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grünberg, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of February 25, 2020.
2. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403ff.
3. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 407f.
4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 408.
5. ↑ Information according to LAGIS: Historisches Ortslexikon .
6. ↑ Unless otherwise stated: 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. 39ff (52).
7. ↑ Nieder-Ohmen, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of November 26, 2018.
8. ↑ Nieder-Ohmen, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of November 26, 2018.
9. ↑ Nieder-Ohmen, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of November 26, 2018.
10. ↑ Nieder-Ohmen, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of November 26, 2018.
11. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 111.