Kelsterbach Office

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The Kelsterbach office was an office in the area of ​​the County of Isenburg , the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and subsequently the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

The Wolfenburg in Kelsterbach - the center of the Kelsterbach office

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

Isenburg

The Kelsterbach office emerged from the Isenburg estates , who owned them in the Dreieich Wildbann area . In the course of a series of inheritance divisions and reorganizations, the Langen office was created here . It was last part of the Isenburg-Ronneburg line . Wolfgang von Ysenburg-Ronneburg , who had built the Wolfenburg as a residential palace in Kelsterbach , died in 1597 without leaving any children, but with a debt of 75,000 guilders . His brother and heir, Count Heinrich, therefore sold large parts of the inheritance, including the Langen office, for a total of 380,177 guilders to Hessen-Darmstadt .

Hesse

The time of purchase by Hessen is given in the literature with different dates: 1600 or 1601.

The relocation of the center of the office from Langen to Kelsterbach, which had already begun under the Isenburgers, was reproduced under Hessian rule by changing the name - now: Amt Kelsterbach . The land law of the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen , the collection of state law regulations for the core area of ​​the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt, also prevailed here. Common law applied subsidiary law . This legal situation was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

In 1803, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt consolidated its ancestral territories and those acquired with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , which lay south of the Main , in a newly created principality of Starkenburg (from 1816: Province of Starkenburg ). With the dissolution of the Old Reich and joining the Rhine Confederation in 1806, the Landgraviate received the status of a Grand Duchy .

In 1821 there was an administrative reform in the Grand Duchy. With it, jurisdiction and administration were separated at the lower level . District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The Kelsterbach office was dissolved, and its municipalities were assigned to two different districts and district courts:

Duration

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.
  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian , 1655.
  2. ↑ Schmidt, p. 11, note 32, probably with reference to Ewald, p. 44 and / or Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg, Volume 1 . October 1829, p. 121 ( online at Google Books )
  3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Decker : Grafschaft Isenburg-Büdingen. In: Knights, Counts and Princes - secular dominions in the Hessian area approx. 900-1806 . Marburg 2014, pp. 252f .; Hans Philippi : Territorial history of the county of Büdingen . Elwert, Marburg 1954, pp. 174f.
  4. ↑ Schmidt, p. 108f., Map.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt dated July 20, 1821, p. 403ff.
  6. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette from July 20, 1821, p. 405.
  7. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette of July 20, 1821, p. 404.
  8. ↑ Ewald, p. 44.
  9. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette from July 20, 1821, p. 405.
  10. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette from July 20, 1821, p. 405.
  11. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette from July 20, 1821, p. 405.
  12. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette of July 20, 1821, p. 404.