Koenigstein Office

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Map of the Koenigstein Office 1828

The office of Königstein (at times also Oberamt Königstein or Amtsvogtei Königstein ) was an Electoral Mainz or Nassau office with an official seat in Königstein im Taunus .

Kurmainz

After Count Christoph zu Stolberg, the last Count of Königstein , had sold the Rodheim office to the Count of Hanau in 1578 , the County of Königstein was divided into the Electoral Mainz offices of Eppstein , Königstein and Oberursel in 1581 .

Another part of the county, the Neuenhain office , fell to the Electoral Palatinate in 1581 . The associated villages of Neuenhain , Altenhain and Schneidhain remained part of Electoral Palatinate until 1650 and were given to Kurmainz in 1650 as part of an area swap, the Bergstrasse Recess , and thus became part of the Königstein office.

On January 7, 1632, the Swedish King Gustav Adolf in Mainz (the area of ​​the Oberamt was in the hands of Swedish troops) declared the return of the Oberamt Königstein to Count Heinrich Vollrath zu Stolberg . After the fortunes of war turned, Stolberg had to transfer the administration of the office back to Mainz on September 21, 1635.

In 1781 the Oberamt Königstein was merged with the Oberamt Höchst -Hofheim to form the Oberamt Höchst-Königstein. Oberamtsitz became Höchst.

The Koenigstein District Bailiwick remained in Koenigstein as a downstream authority. The district bailiwick of Königstein included Königstein, Neuenhain, Altenhain Schneidhain, Oberhöchstadt , Schönberg , Schwalbach , Mammolshain , Glashütten and Kirdorf . In addition, the Oberamt were subordinate to the Eppstein District Bailiwick, the Höchst City and District Bailiwick, and the Oberursel City and District Bailiwick.

Nassau

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Kurmainz was dissolved in 1803 and the newly created office of Königstein fell to Nassau-Usingen . With the establishment of the Duchy of Nassau , the Amt of Königstein also became part of the new state in 1806. In Nassau, administration and jurisdiction were not separate. The office was therefore both an administrative authority and a court of first instance.

In 1806, the Königstein office included the towns of Königstein, Neuenhain, Altenhain and Scheidhain, Schwalbach, Mammolshain, Schönberg, Oberhöchstadt and Glashütten.

With a ducal edict of July 16, 1810, the former Eppstein office with the towns of Eppstein , Schloßborn , Ehlhalten , Eppenhain , Ruppertshain , Fischbach , Hornau , Kelkheim , Oberjosbach , Niederjosbach , Vockenhausen and Bremthal was attached to the Königstein office on January 1, 1811 . Schwalbach, Mammolshain, Schönberg, and Oberhöchstadt fell to the Oberursel office , so that the previous Königstein office still included Königstein, Neuenhain, Altenhain and Schneidhain and Glashütten.

Five years later, with an edict of May 12, 1815, the office of Königstein was expanded again on July 1, 1815. The Oberursel office was incorporated with the towns of Oberursel , Stierstadt , Bommersheim , Weißkirchen , Kalbach , Harheim , Kronberg , Niederhöchstadt , Eschborn , Falkenstein , Sulzbach , Soden and Heddernheim . The villages of Schwalbach, Mammolshain, Schönberg and Oberhöchstadt, which had been handed over to the Oberursel office 5 years ago, also came back. In return, the Königstein office gave up some places. Eppstein fell to the Wallau office , Kelkheim to the Höchst office , Oberjosbach, Niederjosbach, Vockenhausen, Bremthal, Ehlhalten and Glashütten to the Idstein office .

In 1816 and 1817 minor restructuring took place in quick succession. On January 1, 1816, Kelkheim, Ehlhalten and Schloßborn returned to the Königstein office and Eschborn, Harheim and Heddernheim were transferred to the Höchst office. With the edict of December 17, 1816, the office of Königstein took over from the office of Wallau Eppstein and Lorsbach, but returned Lorsbach to the office of Hochheim in 1817 .

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The administrative tasks of the Königstein office were carried out by the Höchst district office , the jurisdiction of the Königstein justice office. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

Prussia

With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia , the offices in their old form were also dissolved and replaced by circles. In 1867, the Königstein office, together with the Usingen office and the Homburg office, formed the Obertaunuskreis . Only as part of this reorganization will administration and jurisdiction be separated. For the jurisdiction in the first instance, which was previously carried out by the office, the judicial officials in the offices were initially responsible and on September 1, 1867 the Koenigstein im Taunus district court was formed.

But even after the founding of the district, the previous office structure will be retained. The Royal Ordinance of February 22, 1867 regulated: "The administrative districts as narrower administrative districts exist in their previous limits" The former offices form the three districts of the district. According to § 13 of the district constitution, the districts sent the former offices six representatives to the new district council . The bailiff was in charge of the local police and the district administrator.

With the administrative reform of 1885/1886 the offices were finally dissolved.

people

(Senior) officers

Kurmainz

Nassau

1849-1854 the office did not exist

Medical Councils

From 1818 each office formed an independent medical district. In each district, a licensed doctor was employed as a medical councilor by the administration. These were in the Königstein office:

literature

  • District committee of the Obertaunuskreis: The Obertaunuskreis and its communities 1867–1927, 1927, pages 25–27
  • Ordinance on the district constitution in the area of ​​the administrative district of Wiesbaden, dated September 29, 1867 (Preuss. Law collection, page 1653)
  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945, 1979, ISBN 3879691266 , pp. 160f.

Individual evidence

  1. Helmut Bode: Königstein Falkenstein im Taunus, Frankfurt 1968, page 16
  2. AJ Weidenbach: Nassau territories from the possessions immediately before the French revolution until 1866; in: Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 10, 1878, p. 286, online
  3. ^ Kurmainzischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender 1797, pp. 166–167, online
  4. Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409)
  5. Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)
  6. VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
  7. Royal Decree of February 22, 1867 Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau of March 11, 1867, § 8 and 9
  8. GS 1885, p. 229
  9. ^ Friedrich Stöhlker: The city of Königstein under the Electorate of Mainz; in: Königstein in the past and present, 1963, City Administration Königstein