Koenitz Office

The office of Könitz was a judicial and administrative district in the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter Oberherrschaft with its seat in Könitz .

tasks

In 1208 the Counts of Schwarzburg acquired the office of Könitz from the imperial estate as an imperial fief. From 1274 it belonged to Schwarzburg-Schwarzburg, from 1361 to Schwarzburg-Leutenberg, from 1564 to Schwarzburg-Blankenburg and from 1574 to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

The Koenitz office was initially a court of first instance and, at the same time, a lower administrative authority. There was no separation of jurisdiction from administration . The Koenitz office was also a mountain court .

The March Revolution also led in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt to the demand for the abolition of the patrimonial courts and the separation of judiciary and administration.

On July 1, 1850, the organizational laws came into force, which fundamentally changed the judiciary. The legal basis was the law on the future administration of justice of May 1, 1850 and the law on the jurisdiction of courts and the appeal of civil disputes. The patrimonial courts were abolished and administration and jurisdiction separated.

The Koenitz office was dissolved as part of this reorganization and its area was assigned to the Leutenberg Office for jurisdiction and the Rudolstadt District Office for administration.

scope

The Koenitz office comprised the following locations:

• Bucha
• Hohenwarte
• Kleingeschwenda (since 1610, previously a patrimonial court)
• Koenitz
• Lausnitz (condomium)
• Presswitz

literature

• Ulrich Hess: History of the state authorities in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . G. Fischer, Jena / Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-334-60503-5 , p. 137

Individual evidence

1. ^ GS Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1850, p. 423