Grebenau office

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The Grebenau office 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.

history

When the Landgraviate was divided after the death of Landgrave Philip I in 1567, the Grebenau office finally became part of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , which in 1806 became the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

In 1820 the Amt Grebenau was dissolved and the Amt Alsfeld was added. However, this was also dissolved during the administrative reform in the Grand Duchy in 1821. With this reform, justice and administration were also separated at the lower level, district councils were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and regional courts and the offices were dissolved for the first instance jurisdiction. The administrative tasks of the Alsfeld office were transferred to the district of Romrod and the jurisdiction to the Alsfeld regional court .

Components

At the end of the Old Kingdom , the following municipalities belonged to the Burg-Gemünden office :

Law

Common law applied in the Grebenau office . It 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grebenau, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of January 28, 2020.
  2. ^ Grebenau, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of January 28, 2020.
  3. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403ff.
  4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 413.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 414.
  6. ^ Grebenau, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of January 28, 2020.
  7. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, map.