Office Langen-Schwalbach

Map of the Langen-Schwalbach office, 1828

The Langen-Schwalbach office with its seat in Langenschwalbach ( Bad Schwalbach since 1927 ) was one of 28 offices in the Duchy of Nassau that were created in 1816 for the purpose of local administration. At the head of the Office of the Duke stood as a local governor a bailiff .

history

The Hohenstein Office had its seat in Langenschwalbach since 1729. It was one of the four offices of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen . It consisted of Langenschwalbach , Gronau , and the " Geroldsteiner Lehn" ( Ober- and Nieder-Fischbach etc.).

From the part of the Lower Counties on the right bank of the Rhine , Napoleon created a Pays réservé de Catzenellenbogen in 1806, surrounded by Nassau areas, with its administrative headquarters in Langenschwalbach. The restoration of territorial claims initiated at the Congress of Vienna (1815) only came to a conclusion for this territory after time-consuming negotiations. Victor Amadeus , the last Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, exchanged his rights to the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen for other media ownership in Prussia ( Principality of Corvey and Duchy of Ratibor ). Prussia in turn exchanged with the Duchy of Nassau the parts of the Niedergrafschaft corresponding to the earlier Pays réservé and thus the Hohenstein office for the Asbach office with 27 localities and 27 other localities in the districts of the Siegen , Netphen and Irmgarteichen offices . This exchange of territory was carried out through the ducal occupation patent of October 17, 1816 and two dismissal patents of the same date.

Subsequently, the subdivision of the Lower County and its surroundings into offices was regulated by the sovereign edict of December 17, 1816. Three new ducal offices were created, including the office of Langen-Schwalbach, which was supposed to start work at the beginning of 1817. The following 35 localities belonged to the Langen-Schwalbach office:

• Langenschwalbach , Algenroth , Bärstadt , Dickschied , Fischbach , Hausen vor der Höhe , Heimbach , Hettenhain , Hilgenroth , Hohenstein , Huppert , Kemel , Langenseifen , Laufenselden , Lindschied , Nauroth , Niedermeilingen , Obermeilingen , formerly belonging to the Hohenstein office in the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen , Ramschied , jumping , Wambach , Watzelhain , Wisper , anger - including the formerly divided equally in the Lower County and after Kurmainz belonging places Geroldstein and Schlangenbad
• up to the 1778 Vierherrischen and then belonging to the low-Katzenelnbogen places Egenroth , Grebenroth , Lang difference , Mappershain , Martenroth that with Gronau belonged to the former district of the Office Nastätten
• the former Nassau-Usingensche place Adolfseck of the Wehen office
• the former Kurmainzischen places Niedergladbach and Obergladbach of the office Eltville

The Langen-Schwalbach office became part of the Untertaunuskreis on February 22, 1867 after the Prussian annexation of the Duchy when the new Hesse-Nassau province was divided into districts .

Bailiffs

• Philipp Joseph Rau 1816
• Roger Joseph Anton von Meex 1816
• Arnold von Sachs 1816-1818
• Christoph Flach (1818) 1819–1822
• Ludwig Christian Schellenberg 1822–1830
• Karl Schweikart 1830–1836
• Carl Friedrich Vietor 1836–1837
• Carl Schenck 1837–1842
• Friedrich Schepp 1842–1847
• Franz Winter 1848–1849 bailiff, 1849-1854 judicial officer and 1854–1864 bailiff
• Heinrich Wilhelm Anton Güll 1864–1867
• Albert von Rösler (1867) 1868–1879
• Friedrich Georg Freiherr von Wedekind (1880–1882)
• Richard von Doemming 1882-1884
• Alexander Bruno von Reppert (1884–1886)

literature

• Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945, 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 162-163

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Google Books: Ordinance Gazette of the Duchy of Nassau, Volume 8, 1816, p. 237 Ownership patent from October 17, 1816
2. ↑ Google Books: Ordinance Gazette of the Duchy of Nassau, Volume 8, 1816, p. 329 Landesherrliches Edict of December 17, 1816
3. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel , description of the duchy Nassau Verlag W. Beyerle, 1843, original from Harvard University, digitized Nov. 21, 2008, Amt Langenschwalbach p. 606ff.
4. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 417 .