Heppenheim Office

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The Office Heppenheim (initially also: Amtsvogtei Heppenheim ) was an office in Kurmainz , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt and subsequently the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The administrative seat was Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse .

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

Kurmainz

Emergence

Even before the establishment of the office, Heppenheim was the seat of an administrative and judicial district, the Zent Heppenheim . The "Amtsvogtei Heppenheim" was created in 1782 on the occasion of an administrative reform. It was subordinate to the Lower Archbishopric and the Upper Office of Starkenburg . The Lower courts and the first instance in civil matters was even after this reform in the existing centering dishes. The central order with the central school hot at the top remained formally in place. However, the central lords were bound by instructions to the superior authorities. The burgrave of Starkenburg also lost power during this restructuring. He was still a senior bailiff, but his powers were severely curtailed by the fact that he was assigned a senior bailiff and a senior magistrate. The jurisdiction of the second instance was now exercised by the chief magistrate and the officials from Heppenheim and Bensheim as assessors.

Law

In the Heppenheim office , the Mainz land law , which was formally reintroduced in 1755, was considered a particular law . The common law also applied, as far as the Mainz land law did not contain special regulations for a matter. This legal position was maintained throughout the 19th century when the area belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. It was not until January 1, 1900, that it was replaced by the civil code that was uniformly valid throughout the German Empire .

Hesse

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Kurmainz was dissolved in 1803 and the Oberamt Starkenburg with the District Bailiwick Heppenheim was added to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt, which was renamed in 1806 as the "Grand Duchy of Hessen". The existing administrative bailiffs, including Heppenheim, were continued as Hessian offices, while the "Oberamt Starkenburg" was dissolved in 1805. The "Heppenheim Office" was subordinate to the Starkenburg Province .

The End

With the implementing ordinance of December 9, 1803, the judicial system of the two higher authorities in the Grand Duchy was reorganized. The offices - including the Heppenheim office - remained the first instance of jurisdiction .

It was not until 1821 to 1823 that an administrative reform took place in the Grand Duchy, with the separation of jurisdiction and administration 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 Heppenheim office was dissolved. With the exception of the city of Heppenheim itself, the administrative district of Lindenfels took the place of the Heppenheim office and the Fürth district court was responsible for the jurisdiction .

The city of Heppenheim, however, was subordinate to the district of Heppenheim and the seat of the district administrator. With regard to jurisdiction, it now belonged to the Lorsch Regional Court .

scope

The Heppenheim Office consisted of the communities and settlements listed below:

The area of ​​the Heppenheim office was completely within the boundaries of today's municipality of Heppenheim.

literature

  • Konrad Dahl: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch or church history of the Upper Rhinegau, history and statistics of the monastery and principality of Lorsch together with a historical topography of the offices of Heppenheim, Bensheim, Lorsch, Fürth, Gernsheim, Hirschhorn and others Stahl, Darmstadt 1812.
  • 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.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heppenheim (Bergstrasse), Bergstrasse district . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of May 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, pp. 16, 109.
  3. ↑ Ewald, p. 45.
  4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 403ff.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 406.
  6. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 407.
  7. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, pp. 403f.
  8. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 404.
  9. ↑ Ewald, p. 45, no. 140-146.