Office Hungen

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The office of Hungen was an office of the princes of Solms-Braunfels and subsequently in the Grand Duchy of 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.

history

The office of Hungen is documented from 1384, although it is not always clear for the first centuries how extensive it was. In the early modern period it belonged to the Principality of Solms-Braunfels.

With the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806, state sovereignty over the Principality of Solms-Braunfels fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. This incorporated the area into the Principality of Upper Hesse (from 1816: "Province of Upper Hesse"). However, this was done with the restriction that the prince retained the rank of landlord and he continued to exercise sovereign rights in administration and jurisdiction . This independent sovereignty naturally interfered with the Grand Duchy's claim to the state monopoly of force .

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1821, jurisdiction and administration were separated at the lower level and all offices were dissolved. For the previously perceived by the offices administrative tasks were district districts created for the first-instance jurisdiction district courts.

Because of the transverse rights of the landlords, this lasted until 1822 in some of the areas they ruled, including in the Solms-Braunfels area: With the Highest Resolution of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke on April 24, 1822, the former princely Solms-Braunfeld office of Hungen was dissolved and its administrative tasks on the newly formed district of Hungen , whose tasks in the jurisdiction are transferred to the district court of Hungen .

Components

At the time of its transition to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, the Hungen office included:

Law

In the office of Hungen , the Solms land law applied . The common law was only valid if the Solms land law contained no provisions for a matter. The Solms land law remained valid there even when the office of Hungen belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which only replaced the civil code that was uniformly valid throughout the German Empire on January 1, 1900 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hungen, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of January 29, 2020.
  2. Art. 24 Rhine Confederation Act .
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ The new regional division and organization of the lower-level judiciary and administrative authorities - especially concerning the princely and countless Solms possessions . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 15 of May 10, 1822, p. 182.
  5. ^ Bellersheim, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; Status: January 15, 2019.
  6. ^ Bettenhausen, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of January 15, 2020.
  7. Birklar, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  8. ^ Hungen, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of January 29, 2020.
  9. ^ Langsdorf, District of Gießen In: LAGIS: Historisches Ortslexikon ; As of October 16, 2018.
  10. ^ Muschenheim, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  11. ^ Nieder-Bessingen, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018
  12. ^ Nonnenroth, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of June 5, 2018.
  13. ^ Röthges, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  14. ^ Villingen, district of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  15. Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 106, as well as the enclosed map.