Reichelsheim Office

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Map of the Reichelsheim Office 1828

The Reichelsheim office (at times also Reichelsheim district office ) was a Nassau-Weilburger , later a ducal Nassau office with Reichelsheim's official seat .

history

Early modern age

Reichelsheim, which previously belonged to the Amt of Bingenheim , had been a Nassau exclave since the sale of the Fulda Mark in 1566 , surrounded by areas of Hesse and Darmstadt . From 1566 Reichelsheim was the seat of an office of the same name , to which no other places belonged.

In 1740 Prince Karl August von Nassau-Weilburg sold the Reichelsheim office to Prince Heinrich zu Schwarzburg-Sondershausen for 30,000 Reichstaler for life . With his death in 1758, the Reichelsheim office fell back to Nassau-Weilburg .

Modern times

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss Nassau received the neighboring village of Dorn-Assenheim and assigned it to the Reichelsheim office. With the establishment of the Duchy of Nassau, the Amt Reichelsheim also became part of the new state in 1806. In Nassau, administration and jurisdiction were not separated at the lower level. The office was therefore both an administrative authority and a court of first instance.

In 1820 the Reichelsheim office included the Reichelsheim area, the village of Dorn-Assenheim and a mill. 343 families and 1,180 residents lived in the office. Of these, 731 were Protestant , 446 Roman Catholic and 3 Jews.

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The Reichelsheim Office had a special role here. Due to its location outside the actual duchy, there were no neighboring offices with which it could be merged into a district office. Therefore, the Reichelsheim office formed its own Reichelsheim district office and its own Reichelsheim justice office. Due to the small size, this did not fit into the usual system. Instead of a district administrator (that was the name of the district administrator ), a district administrator was appointed, and instead of a judicial officer (i.e. a judge of first instance) a judicial administrator. For the first time, the appointed district administrator was supported by an elected district council. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

After the German War , Nassau was annexed by Prussia . With Article 15 of the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 , an exchange of territory was agreed: The Reichelsheim office (together with Haarheim ) came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt . In the Grand Duchy, its administrative tasks were transferred to the Friedberg district (Hesse) and the judicial function to the Friedberg district court . The consequence of the transition to the Grand Duchy of Hesse was that a nested particular law applied: In addition to Hessian law, Nassau law, which in turn overlaid Mainz land law, and - under customary law - also Title 28 of the Solmser land law (matrimonial property law) applied, but not in full . 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.

Official building

Amtshaus Reichelsheim 1898

The former Nassau official building in the south of the village was replaced by a teacher's house in 1910/12 (Florstädter Straße 16).

Bailiffs

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945, 1979, ISBN 3879691266 , pp. 129, 144, 172
  • Chronicle of Reichelsheim id Wetterau, compiled and dedicated to the city of Reichelsheim by Adam Spamer in 1930

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Reichelsheim in der Wetterau, Wetteraukreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409).
  3. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160).
  4. ↑ Printed by: Ernst Rudolf Huber: Documents on German Constitutional History 2 = German Constitutional Documents 1851–1900. 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3-17-001845-0 , No. 192, pp. 260ff.
  5. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 108 and notes 38 and 40.
  6. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Florstädter Straße 16 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
    State office for monument preservation Hesse (ed.): Complete system In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen