Office Greifenstein
The office Greifenstein was a Solmser , Nassau-Weilburger , ducal Nassauer and Prussian office with seat at Castle Greifenstein . The office opened in the Braunfels district .
history
The Greifenstein office included the parishes of Asslar, Biskirchen, Cölschhausen, Daubhausen, Dillheim, Greifenstein, Greifental, Dreisbach, Edingen, Ehringshausen, Ulm and Werdorf. These were the places Allendorf , Asslar , Altenstädten , Bechlingen , Berghausen , Biskirchen , Bissenberg , Breitenbach , Cölschhausen , Daubhausen , Dillheim , Greifenstein, Greifenthal , Dreisbach , Edingen , Ehringshausen , Holzhausen , Katzenfurth , Niedergirmes , Niederlemp , Stockhausen , Ulm , and Werdorf .
The office of Greifenstein belonged to the Principality of Solms-Braunfels , a branch of the House of Solms that had emerged from an inheritance in 1409. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 Solms lost its imperial immediacy and the office became part of Nassau-Weilburg. With the establishment of the Duchy of Nassau in 1806, the Greifenstein office also became part of the new Duchy. There it was subordinated to the administration commission and in 1809 to the Wiesbaden district .
In 1816 the office was handed over to Prussia as part of an area swap. There it became part of the new Braunfels district.
Professional office
Despite the mediatization in 1803, the princes of Solms-Braunfels retained civil rights in office. Organizationally, these rights were administered in the Duke of Nassau, Princely Solmsches Amt Greifenstein . The Prince of Solms-Braunfels retained the church patronage (restricted by a duty to present to the duke). The school teachers were appointed in the same way by the count after presentation. The count retained the law of lower jurisdiction, including forest jurisdiction. Furthermore, the count's rights from tithes and comparable taxes remained.
On October 30, 1809, the princely consistory in Braunfels was dissolved and the ducal consistory in Wiesbaden took over the church administration. On the same day, the princely law office was also dissolved.
people
- Peter von Schwalbach , bailiff of the office around 1550
- Johannes Ackermann , bailiff 1813
literature
- Otto Rudolf Kissel: Modern Territorial and Legal History of the State of Hesse , 1961, p. 139
- Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 9, 1868, p. 313, online
Individual evidence
- ↑ State treaties of May 31, 1815 and August 23, 1816 VB 1815, p. 97 ff. VB 1816, p. 237.
- ↑ Harry Müzing, The mediatization of the former imperial directors and imperial knights in the Duchy of Nassau, Diss. 1980, pp. 100-103.
- ^ State and address calendar of the Duchy of Nassau, 1813, p. 46, online .