Lorsch Office

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The office of Lorsch (temporarily also: Amtsvogtei Lorsch ) was an office first from Kurmainz , later from Hesse.

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

Emergence

The Lorsch Abbey was founded in 764 and acquired over the centuries extensive possession. The monastery lost the imperial immediacy acquired in 772 in 1232 and was added to the Mainz bishopric, with the Electoral Palatinate having the bailiwick. The former Lorsch property now became the Mainzischen Oberamt Starkenburg . In Lorsch, the upper workforce Lorsch existed as a sub-organization.

Mainz

In 1782 the Electorate of Mainz carried out an administrative reform and divided the previous office of Heppenheim into four sub-offices or district bailiffs. The "Office Heppenheim" was now referred to as the "Oberamt". One of these four new magistrates was the Lorsch office .

In terms of hierarchy, there was also the “Oberamt Starkenburg” above the “Oberamt Heppenheim”, which was part of the “Lower Archbishopric” of the Electorate. The superior jurisdiction was exercised by the chief magistrate and the officials from Heppenheim and Bensheim as assessors. At the level of the Lorsch office , the bailiff was a judge and head of administration.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 Kurmainz was dissolved. In addition to numerous other offices from its former holdings on the right bank of the Rhine, the Lorsch office also fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt .

Hesse

The Landgraviate took over the Lorsch office as a separate administrative unit. The upper offices ceased to exist in 1805 and it was subordinate to the Principality of Starkenburg (from 1816: Province of Starkenburg ). In 1806 the Landgraviate became the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

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 Lorsch office was dissolved, its administrative tasks assigned to the district of Heppenheim and its jurisdiction tasks to the Lorsch district court .

scope

The municipalities belonged to the Amtsvogtei Lorsch

Law

In the Lorsch office , the Mainz land law , which was formally reintroduced in the Electorate in 1755, was considered a particular law . The common law also applied, as far as the Mainz land law did not contain special regulations for a matter. 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

  • Konrad Dahl: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch or church history of the Upper Rhinegau, history and statistics of the monastery and principality of Lorsch together with a historical topography of the offices of Heppenheim, Bensheim, Lorsch, Fürth, Gernsheim, Hirschhorn and others Stahl, Darmstadt 1812.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lorsch, Bergstrasse district . In: Lagis : Historical local dictionary ; As of March 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ § 7 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss .
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette of July 20, 1821, pp. 403f.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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. 45.
  7. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 109.