Office Lißberg

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The office Lißberg was an office of the Landgraviate and last of 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 Lißberg office came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1627, finally in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia after decades of dispute with the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which then became the Grand Duchy of Hessen in 1806. Here the office was in the province of Upper Hesse .

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy. In 1821 the judiciary and administration were also separated at the lower level and all offices were dissolved. District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction . The Lißberg office was dissolved and its administrative responsibility was transferred to two of the newly formed districts, the district of Nidda and the district of Schotten , and its tasks, which it had previously performed in the jurisdiction, were transferred to two districts, Ortenberg and Schotten .

Components

At the end of the Old Kingdom , the following places belonged to the Lißberg office :

The area of ​​the office Lißberg lay on the boundaries of today's communities Grebenhain , Nidda , Ortenberg , Ranstadt and Schotten .

Law

In Office Lißberg which applied Common Law . It retained its validity throughout the 19th century and was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

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.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ehwald, p. 53.
  2. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, pp. 403ff.
  3. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 411.
  4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 412.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 412.
  6. ↑ Ehwald, p. 53.
  7. ↑ Not in Ehwald, p. 53; see. but: Ordinance on the division of the country into district councils and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 412, and Burkhards, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  8. ^ Crainfeld, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 16, 2018; not in Ehwald, p. 53. Despite the name “court” it was a single community.
  9. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 111.