Lohrhaupten Office

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The Lorhaupten office was an office that initially belonged to the County of Rieneck and later to the County of Rieneck-Rothenfels.

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

Originally the area was written as a tithe Frammersbach . The function of the main town was later taken over by Lohrhaupten . After the death of the last count of the Rieneck-Rothefels line in 1333, it came to his nephew, Ulrich II. Von Hanau, as part of the inheritance . Since then it has been part of the County of Hanau , later the County of Hanau-Münzenberg .

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the office fell in 1736 - together with the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg - to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which became the Electorate of Hesse at the beginning of the 19th century . The condominium communities Rieneck and Schaippach came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in the Napoleonic period . In the Electorate of Hesse, the remaining office of Lohrhaupten was incorporated into the newly formed district of Gelnhausen with the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821 . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the German War , and the area of ​​the former Lohrhaupten office became part of the State of Hesse after the Second World War . With the Hessian territorial reform , the former district of Gelnhausen was incorporated into the Main-Kinzig district in 1974 .

Affiliated communities

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In 1787 the Lohrhaupten office included:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordinance of June 29, 1821 on the restructuring of the previous state administration , in (collection of laws, ordinances, notices and other general orders for Kurhessen from the year 1821, court and orphanage printer, Cassel) kurhess GS 1821, p. 29 -62; also in: Wilhelm Möller and Karl Fuchs (eds.): Collection of the legal provisions still valid in the Electorate of Hesse from 1813 to 1860. Elwert'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Marburg and Leipzig 1866, pp. 311–351
  2. ^ Law on the unification of the Kingdom of Hanover, the Electorate of Hesse, the Duchy of Nassau and the Free City of Frankfurt with the Prussian Monarchy of September 20, 1866, Collection of Laws for the Royal Prussian States ( Prussian GS) 1866 p. 555 f.