Rheine-Bevergern Office

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The Rheine-Bevergern Office was responsible for the jurisdiction in the north of the Principality of Münster . It was composed of the three princely Münster Gogerichten Emsbüren , Bevergern and Rheine as well as the freedom Emsbüren and the city court Rheine. The three Gogerichte were viewed as separate dishes until 1578. The Drosten came from the von Twickel family since 1635 .

Gogericht Emsbüren

The Gogericht Emsbüren was only responsible for the two parishes Schepsdorf and Emsbüren, with the exception of the freedom Emsbüren . Since this court was permanently pledged to the Count of Bentheim , the latter ultimately exercised jurisdiction here. The Gogericht in Emsbüren did not have its own office building because it was pledged. It was therefore co-administered by the other offices. When Europe was reorganized at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Emsbüren was assigned to the Kingdom of Hanover and in 1866 to the Prussian province. As a result, the Lingen office took over jurisdiction.

Gogericht Bevergern

The town of Bevergern, the parishes Dreierwalde , Hembergen , Hopsten , Riesenbeck and Saerbeck belonged to the Gogericht Bevergern .

Gogericht Rheine

The localities of Emsdetten , Mesum , Neuenkirchen , Rheine (Land) and Salzbergen belonged to the Rheine Gogericht .

Rheine City Court

The city of Rheine had its own jurisdiction, but it was subordinate to the Rheine-Bevergern office .

Freedom Emsbüren

A freedom referred to in Westphalia in the 14th century a circumscribed district (road train, place) to a country castle or manor , who was in the legal sense as immune, was thus freed from the surrounding jurisdiction and not the ordinary estimate subject. The title of “freedom” was associated with the privilege of electing a magistrate or a mayor and administering the place himself. The rights of a freedom were very close to those of a city. The privilege ended in 1803.

literature

  • Albert Hömberg : county, free county, geographic area. Munster 1949.
  • Ewald Schmeken : The Saxon go-jurisdiction in the area between the Rhine and Weser. Dissertation. University of Munster. Munster 1961.
  • Johannes Schmitz: The Gogerichte in the former Duchy of Westphalia. Munster 1901.
  • Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Fontes iuris Germanici antiqui, leges Saxonum. P. 37ff.