Lordship of Heusenstamm

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Heusenstamm Castle , built from 1661 for Philipp Erwein von Schönborn

The rule Heusenstamm or Amt Heusenstamm was a modern territory in what is now southern Hesse .

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.

Components

history

Lords of Heusenstamm

The rule Heusenstamm was the core of the property of the noble family Heusenstamm .

At the turn of the 16th to the 17th century, the Solms land law became common law in the Heusenstamm lordship . The background to this was that the surrounding territories also adopted this "modern" law from 1571, which was recorded systematically and in writing and which also came from the immediate vicinity. The Common Law was now considered only when the Solmser land law contained no provisions for a fact. The Solmser land rights remained here in the Grand Duchy of Hesse applicable law and was only on January 1, 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced.

In 1616 , after several deaths, the rule of Heusenstamm was completely transferred to the sidelines of the family that had moved to Vienna. The Austrians had little interest in their ancestral home and leased it to the Frankfurt patrician family Steffan von Cronstetten in 1628 .

Count of Schönborn

In 1661 Philipp Erwein von Schönborn acquired the office and ownership fell to the von Schönborn family , who built Heusenstamm Castle in its preserved form.

In the course of the mediatization, the state sovereignty over the Heusenstamm office fell to the Principality of Isenburg through a state treaty dated September 24, 1806 . At the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Principality of Isenburg itself lost its sovereignty and was mediated in favor of Austria . Austria, Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse signed a state treaty on June 30, 1816, which regulated the details. With Art. 7 No. 1 of this State Treaty, the Principality of Isenburg was largely assigned to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. This also included the Heusenstamm office . The Grand Duchy incorporated the office into its province of Starkenburg . In all these transactions the counts remained von Schönborn lords , their traditional sovereign rights have been respected, it that the Office Heusenstamm further Patrimonialgerichtsherren and for public order and safety charge remained. When the principality of Isenburg was mediatized, the rule of Heusenstamm was directly subordinated to the Grand Duchy. Isenburg was no longer the mediator, but the Grand Duchy.

The End

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. At the same time, jurisdiction and administration were separated and all offices dissolved at the lower level . District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed by the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The Office Heusenstamm was disbanded, its management tasks to the district District Seligenstadt transferred the responsibilities of the Court to the District Court Steinheim . However, this was done with the note: By virtue of an agreement with the patrimonial court lord of Heusenstamm, Counts of Schönborn, the patriotic court judiciary and police rights are exercised in the court Heusenstamm by the district councilor of Seligenstadt and the district judge of Steinheim on behalf of the court lord .

literature

  • Otto Rudolf Kissel : Modern Territorial and Legal History of the State of Hesse , 1961, p. 143.
  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.
  • Wolfgang von Stetten: The legal status of the direct free imperial knighthood, its mediatization and its position in the new lands - presented in the Franconian canton of Odenwald . Dissertation University of Würzburg 1973, p. 134 f., 189.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gravenbruch, Offenbach district . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of November 29, 2018.
  2. ^ Hausen, Offenbach district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Heusenstamm, Offenbach district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  4. ^ Obertshausen, Offenbach district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  5. ↑ Patershausen, Offenbach district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ Schmidt, p. 105 and Note 26 and attached map.
  7. ↑ Printed by Manfred Mayer: History of Mediatization of the Füstenthums Isenburg . M. Rieger'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Munich 1891, pp. 180-182.
  8. ^ Heusenstamm, Offenbach district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  9. ↑ Art. 52 main document of the Congress of Vienna .
  10. ^ Schmidt, p. 42, note 135.
  11. ^ Heusenstamm, Offenbach district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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. 405.