Office Obergeis

The Office Obergeis (originally Amt Geis or Geysa ) was an administrative and judicial district of the Hersfeld Abbey , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and the Electorate of Hesse with its seat in Obergeis, from the 14th century to 1821 .

history

The origins of the office are not documented. It was probably a villication from a farm belonging to the Hersfeld Abbey. In 1394 an official “yn der Geysa” and a court are documented. Aua is older than Obergeis . 1190 Abbey Hersfeld there established a convent the Augustinerinnen , the 1229 by Blankenheim was moved. Aua was pledged to the Lords of Wallenstein but fell back to the Blankenheim Monastery in 1518 due to the will of Konrad von Wallenstein . In 1523 it was assigned to the Geis office. Biedebach was Hersfeld's fiefdom to the Schaden von Leibold family. In 1596, Abbot Joachim acquired half of the town and assigned it to the Geis office; the other half could be acquired in 1603. In addition, iron forges (so-called forest forges) and an alum and copper mine were located in the office. These later formed the Eisenberg farm, which is now a desert .

In 1648 the Hersfeld Abbey was dissolved due to the Peace of Westphalia and, as the Principality of Hersfeld, part of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel. The Obergeis office had become Hessian. In the 17th century the office consisted of Obergeis and Untergeis , Gittersdorf , Biedebach, Aua and the yards of Eisenberg and Erzebach , the Röhrichsmühle and the Liedermühle.

The office was a small office by the standards of the 18th century and was therefore merged with the Neuenstein court but separated again in 1775. Now it was the Office Hersfeld subordinate, but an appeal against judgments of the Office went to the Hersfelder firm, but at the Kassel government.

In 1806, as part of the formation of the Rhine Confederation, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel was dissolved and the administrative area fell to the Kingdom of Westphalia . This is where the canton of Obergeis arose . After the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, the Electorate of Hesse was re-created and the Obergeis office was re-established as part of the Hersfeld office. It also consisted of Obergeis, Aua, Biedebach, Gittersdorf, Untergeis and the Erzebach farm.

In 1821/22 the separation of jurisdiction from administration was introduced in Kurhessen . The administrative tasks went to the Hersfeld district , the jurisdiction to the Hersfeld district court . The office itself was dissolved.

literature

• Elisabeth Ziegler: The territory of the Reichsabtei Hersfeld from its beginnings to 1821, 1939, pp. 100-102, 150.