Office Romrod

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The office of Romrod was an office of the Landgraviate and last of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

function

In the Middle Ages and early modern times , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereign rulership . 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 Romrod office belonged to the old stock of the Landgraviate of Hesse. After the division of Hesse in the 16th and 17th centuries, it finally came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 , which then became the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806. Here the office was in the province of Upper Hesse .

The Romrod office was - at least temporarily - part of the Alsfeld office . When the office of Romrod was dissolved in 1821, it was named equally alongside and independently of the office of Alsfeld.

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy. In 1821 the judiciary and administration were also separated at the lower level and all offices were dissolved. District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction.

The holdings of the former Romrod office were distributed to the districts of Romrod and Kirtorf with regard to administrative matters, and to the district courts of Homberg an der Ohm and Alsfeld with regard to jurisdiction .

Components

The following places belonged to the Romrod office when it was dissolved :

The area of ​​the Romrod office was within the boundaries of today's communities Alsfeld , Kirtorf, Romrod and Schwalmtal .

Law

In Office Romrod which applied Common Law . It retained its validity throughout the 19th century and was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable 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.

Remarks

  1. ↑ To the district of Romrod came: Hergersdorf , Hopfgarten , Liederbach , Melchiorsgrund , Nieder-Breidenbach , Ober-Breidenbach , Oberrod, Ober-Sorg , Romrod , Strebendorf , Unter-Sorg and Vadenrod .
  2. ↑ To the district of Kirtorf came: Angenrod , Billertshausen , Gleimenhain , Heimertshausen , Kirtorf , Leusel and Zell
  3. ↑ Ewald, p. 52, noted here: "Church". It stood between Angenrotd and Billertshausen ( Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . Volume 3. Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 28f ( Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . Volume 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 28 f . ( Online at google books ). )).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 413.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. 413.
  4. ^ 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. 413, namely Angenrod, Billertshausen, Gleimenhain, Heimertshausen, Kirtorf, Leusel and Zell.
  5. ^ 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. 414, namely Hergersdorf, Hopfgarten, Liederbach, Melchiorsgrund, Nieder-Breidenbach, Ober-Breidenbach, Oberrod, Ober-Sorg, Romrod, Strebendorf, Unter-Sorg and Vadenrod .
  6. ^ Romrod, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ Not mentioned in Lagis, but explicitly in: Ordinance on the division of the country into district councils and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 413f.
  8. ↑ Not mentioned in Lagis, but explicitly in: Ordinance on the division of the country into district councils and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 413f.
  9. ↑ Not mentioned in Lagis, but explicitly in: Ordinance on the division of the country into district councils and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 413f.
  10. ↑ Melchiorsgrund, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of February 3, 2017.
  11. ↑ Oberrod, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 5, 2018.
  12. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 111.