Office of Rüsselsheim

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The office of Rüsselsheim was an office of the County of Katzenelnbogen and its legal successor, most recently the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

geography

location

The office of Rüsselsheim occupied the area that is formed by the angle that results from the confluence of the Main into the Rhine south of the Main and east of the Rhine. Rüsselsheim am Main was the official seat.

Components

1806 belonged to the office Rüsselsheim :

function

In the Middle Ages and early modern times , offices were a level between the rural communities 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

middle Ages

The office of Rüsselsheim belonged to the County of Katzenelnbogen and there to the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen . At the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century it was spun off from the Dornberg office.

1457 married Anna von Katzenelnbogen, daughter of Philip the Elder, Landgrave Heinrich III. of Hessen. With Philip's death in 1479, the County of Katzenelnbogen - and with it the Office of Rüsselsheim - fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse .

Early modern age

When the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided under the heirs of Landgrave Philip I in 1567, the entire Upper County of Katzenelnbogen came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt .

Its first regent, Landgrave Georg I , arranged for the Landrecht collection of the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen , compiled by his Chancellor, Johann Kleinschmidt , to become legally binding. It applied in all municipalities of the Office Rüsselsheim as a particular law , subsidiary complemented by the Common Law , to the end of the 19th century. It was not until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was suspended.

Modern times and dissolution

With the collapse of the old order as a result of the French Revolution , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt also had to reorganize itself, above all to integrate the areas gained through secularization and mediatization into the state. The Principality of Starkenburg (later: Province of Starkenburg ) was formed from the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen and all areas south of the Main , which now belonged to the Landgraviate, which also included the Office of Rüsselsheim.

With the executive order of December 9, 1803, the judicial system of the two higher authorities was initially reorganized. The offices - including Rüsselsheim - remained the first instance of jurisdiction in civil matters . For the Principality of Starkenburg, the “Hofgericht Darmstadt” became the second instance court for civil matters. It was also responsible in the first instance for civil family matters and criminal matters . The higher appeal court in Darmstadt was superordinate to it . In 1806 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt became the Grand Duchy of Hessen .

In 1821 there was an administrative reform. With it, courts and administration were separated at the lowest level. District administrative districts were created for their previous administrative tasks and district courts were created for the first instance jurisdiction. The district council now responsible for the places of the former Rüsselsheim office was Dornberg , the locally responsible court was the district court Großgerau . The previous office of Rüsselsheim was dissolved.

literature

  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.
  • Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . Volume 1. Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1829.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmidt, map (supplement).
  2. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , inventory E 8 A No. 352/4 .
  3. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape  1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 51 ( online at google books ). .
  4. ↑ Schmidt, p. 108f. and enclosed card.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 404.
  6. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape  1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 52 ( online at google books ). .