Office Homberg on the Ohm

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The office Homberg an der Ohm was an office of the Landgraviate and last 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

The office Homberg an der Ohm belonged to the old stock of the Landgraviate of Hesse. After the division of Hesse in the 16th and 17th centuries, it finally came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 , which then became the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806.

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy. In 1820 the Burg-Gemünden office was dissolved and the Homberg an der Ohm office was added. But just one year later, in 1821, a further reform also separated the judiciary and administration at the lower level and all offices were dissolved. District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The administrative tasks of the former Homberg an der Ohm office were transferred to the district of Kirtorf and jurisdiction to the Homberg an der Ohm regional court .

Components

At the end of the Old Kingdom , the following parishes belonged to the Amt Homberg an der Ohm :

Law

In the office at the Homberg Ohm which applied Common Law . 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 .

literature

  • 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. ^ Homberg (Ohm), Vogelsberg district . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  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. 408.
  4. Ehwald, p. 39ff (52).
  5. ^ Only in: Homberg (Ohm), Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 16, 2018; not with Ehwald.
  6. ^ Only in: Homberg (Ohm), Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 16, 2018; not with Ehwald.
  7. Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 111.