Office Lampertheim

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The Amt Lampertheim (also Amt Stein after the Burg Stein or Cellar Lampertheim ) was an office of the Hochstift Worms , later the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt and then 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 of Lampertheim was one of four offices of the Hochstift Worms .

Outdated inventory

The office comprised some municipalities on the right bank of the Rhine , which lie opposite the city of Worms in the Upper Rhine Plain . In the middle of the 18th century:

At the end of the 18th century until then was part of the Bishop of Worms to the Lords of Franckenstein as fiefs assigned Bobstadt added.

There were also some individual farmsteads and places to live that belonged to the Lampertheim office:

Transfer to Hessen

In the course of secularization and with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the "[remaining on the right bank of the Rhine] remainder of the Diocese of Worms " - and with it the Lampertheim office - came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , which became the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1806 .

In 1821/22 there was an administrative reform in the Grand Duchy. With it, the court 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 Lampertheim office was dissolved. Its administrative tasks were transferred to the district of Heppenheim , the jurisdiction to the district court of Lorsch .

Law

In the Lampertheim office, common law was applied , modified in the area of inheritance law and matrimonial property law : Here the Palatinate land law from 1582, renewed in 1610, was applicable as a particular law . In Bobstadt, on the other hand, common law applied without this modification. This special rights retained its validity and throughout the 19th century during the affiliation of the area to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was only on January 1, 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced.

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, p. 39ff.

Remarks

  1. ↑ On the right bank of the Rhine, across from Fahrt .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Wolff: The immediate parts of the former Roman-German Empire after their previous and present connection , Berlin, 1873, p. 232; (Digital scan)
  2. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching : New description of the earth . 5th edition, 3rd part, volume 1. Hamburg, 1771, p. 1145; (Digital scan) .
  3. ↑ See Ewald, p. 46.
  4. ↑ Ewald, p. 46.
  5. ↑ § 7 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss .
  6. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403ff.
  7. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 404.
  8. ↑ For details see: here .
  9. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 111 and map.