Office Ockstadt
The Office Ockstadt was an office of the Lords of Frankenstein and subsequently in the Grand Duchy of 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
The lords of Cleen have been tangible as owners since the end of the 14th century . In 1521 the property came to the Lords of Frankenstein in female succession.
With the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806, state sovereignty over the Ockstadt office fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. This incorporated the area into the Principality of Upper Hesse (from 1816: "Province of Upper Hesse"). But this happened with the restriction that the gentlemen von Frankenstein retained their traditional sovereign rights in administration and jurisdiction . This independent sovereignty naturally interfered with the Grand Duchy's claim to the state monopoly of force .
From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1821, jurisdiction and administration were separated at the lower level and all offices were dissolved. For the previously perceived by the offices administrative tasks were district districts created for the first-instance jurisdiction district courts.
The Ockstadt office was also to be dissolved, but this could not be carried out so quickly because of the transverse rights of the Lords of Frankenstein. The administrative tasks of the Ockstadt office were assigned to the district of Butzbach as early as 1821 (from 1829 "district of Friedberg"), but this was probably not feasible. A regulation regarding the tasks in the case law was not made either. The negotiations between the Frankenstein family and the state dragged on. A solution was only found in 1822, which now included the tasks of both administration and jurisdiction: The Lords of Frankenstein transferred these tasks to the state, which carried them out “in the name and on behalf of their family”.
Components
At the time of its transition to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, the Ockstadt office included:
- Ockstadt and
- Ober-Straßheimer Hof .
The area of the former Ockstadt office is now part of the city of Friedberg .
Law
In Office Ockstadt which applied Common Law . It remained valid law throughout the 19th century and was not replaced until January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly valid 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
- ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 59.
- ↑ Art. 25 Federal Act on the Rhine .
- ↑ Ewald, p. 56, No. 968, 969.
- ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 403ff.
- ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, pp. 409f.
- ↑ The Patrimonial Jurisdictions law in Ockstadt and at the Straßheimer Hof, transferred from the Freiherrn von und zu Frankenstein to the state for exercise, on June 13, 1822. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 212.
- ↑ Ewald, p. 56, No. 968, 969.
- ^ Ockstadt, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of May 13, 2020.
- ↑ Ober-Straßheim, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of April 17, 2018.
- ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 106, as well as the enclosed map.