Office Rothenberg

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The Rothenberg court was an office of the County of Erbach and in the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

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.

history

Since 1353, the Rothenberg rule was part of the property of the Hirschhorn family as an imperial fief . After the death of Friedrich III. von Hirschhorn in 1632, the male line died out. The rulership of Rothenberg was withdrawn as a completed imperial fief and as a fief to the sergeant-general Adam Philipp Graf zu Cronenberg. This branch of the Kronberg family died in 1704 with the death of Johann Nicolaus von Cronberg, who lived at Hohlenfels Castle in the Hintertaunus . The reign of Rothenberg was drawn in again as a completed fief and given to Maximilian Freiherr von Degenfeld as a fief. In 1797 Christian Karl zu Erbach-Fürstenau bought the office of Count August Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg (1730–1814) with the consent of the feudal lord, Emperor Franz II. For 60,000 guilders.

In the Rothenberg court , Erbach law and - on a subsidiary basis - common law applied if Erbach law did not provide any regulation for a matter. This legal situation was until 1 January 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced

With the Rhine Federation 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-Fürstenau 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 Freienstein office was dissolved in 1822. Its administrative tasks were now taken over by the district of Erbach , the district court of Beerfelden was responsible for the jurisdiction .

scope

The communities belonged to the Rothenberg court

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country, 1858, p. 43 ff., P. 249 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 Erbach and the district court districts Fürstenau and Beerfelden . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 18 of June 17, 1822, pp. 199f.
  4. ^ 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, p. 48.