Reichenberg Office (Erbach)

The Reichenberg office was an office in the county of Erbach and in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . It was named after the Reichenberg Castle, which was also the seat of the bailiff .

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.

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history

In contrast to the surrounding Zenten, the Zent Reichelsheim was not a church property, but an imperial property . Around 1200, the Erbach taverns came into the possession. The Reichenberg office was the same size as the Reichelsheim center until 1551. With the Reichelsheim Treaty of February 12, 1551, Erbach acquired the Breubergische Zent Oberkainsbach. Erbach assigned the places of the Cent Oberkainsbach (Ober-Kainsbach and Ober- and Unter-Gersprenz) to the Reichenberg office.

When the county was divided in 1718, the Reichenberg office came into the possession of the family branch of the Counts of Erbach-Erbach . In the Reichenberg office , Erbach law and - on a subsidiary basis - common law applied if Erbach law did not provide any regulation for a matter. This particular law was until 1 January 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced

With the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806, the county of Erbach became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and here the province of Starkenburg . However, the Count of Erbach-Erbach continued to exercise sovereign rights in the area he had previously ruled; the state monopoly of force was shared here.

Between 1820 and 1822 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 Reichenberg office was dissolved in 1822. The administrative district of Erbach took over its administrative tasks , the jurisdiction was carried out by the Michelstadt district court.

scope

The municipalities belonged to the Reichenberg office

• Bockenrod
• Brensbach (Erbach part)
• Eberbach (proportionately)
• Erzbach
• Frohnhofen
• Large pools
• Kirch-Beerfurth (Erbach part)
• Small pools
• Laudenau
• Nieder-Kainsbach (Erbach part)
• Ober-Spenz
• Ober-Kainsbach
• Upper Easter
• Reichelsheim
• Reichenberg Castle
• Rohrbach
• Under-talk
• Under-Easter
• Winter box

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.

Remarks

1. ↑ The place was a condominium between the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt and later the Grand Duchy of Hesse on the one hand and the County of Erbach on the other (Ewald, p. 48).
2. ↑ Condominium between the Counts of Erbach and the Lords of Gemmingen (Ewald, p. 48f).
3. ↑ Another share belonged to the princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim (Ewald, p, 47).
4. ↑ The place was a condominium between the county of Erbach on the one hand and the Electoral Palatinate on the other. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt took over the part of the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1803 and thus later the Grand Duchy of Hessen (Ewald, pp. 46, 48).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gustav Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country, 1858, p. 117 ff., Digitized
2. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 109.
3. ↑ Grand Ducal resolution of May 21, 1822 on the formation of the district administration district of Erbach and the district court districts of Michelstadt and Beerfelden . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 18 of June 17, 1822, pp. 199f.
4. ↑ Ewald, p. 48.