Rudolstadt Office

The Rudolstadt office was a judicial and administrative district in the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter Oberherrschaft with its seat in Rudolstadt .

history

The Rudolstadt office was acquired in 1334 by the Counts of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg from the property of the Counts of Orlamünde . It had been a Bohemian fiefdom since 1361. In 1574 the office passed to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

scope

The court included the places:

• Cumbach
• Eichfeld
• Eschdorf
• Geitersdorf (since 1825 from Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Office Oberkranichfeld)
• Groschwitz (since 1829 from the Blankenburg office)
• Keilhau (from the Blankenburg office since 1829)
• Kirchhasel
• Milbitz near Teichel (since 1825 from Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Office Oberkranichfeld)
• Mörla (since 1825 from Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Office Oberkranichfeld)
• Plantwirbach (from Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg since 1825, Office Oberkranichfeld)
• Rudolstadt-Altstadt (independent municipality until 1829)
• Schaala
• Schwarza (from the Blankenburg office since 1829)
• Teichröda
• Pond willows
• Under hazel
• Volkstedt
• Weitersdorf , Vorwerk near Teichweiden

tasks

The Rudolstadt office was initially the court of first instance and at the same time the lower administrative authority. There was no separation of jurisdiction from administration . The Blankenburg office was co-administered by Rudolstadt until 1829 .

The March Revolution also led in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt to the demand for the abolition of the patrimonial courts and the separation of judiciary and administration.

On July 1, 1850, the organizational laws came into force, which fundamentally changed the judiciary. The legal basis was the law on the future administration of justice of May 1, 1850 and the law on the jurisdiction of courts and the appeal of civil disputes. The patrimonial courts were abolished and administration and jurisdiction separated.

The Rudolstadt office was now a purely judicial office, i.e. a court of first instance with a judicial officer as a single judge. The District Court of Rudolstadt stood above it . The administrative tasks were transferred to the newly created District Office in Rudolstadt .

In the reaction era , the separation of jurisdiction and administration was called into question again for reasons of cost. The ordinance on the organization of the lower state administrative authorities of May 1, 1858 repealed the district offices and assigned the administrative tasks to the judicial offices. At the request of the state parliament, the district offices were re-established by a law of February 7, 1868 and the courts were again released from administrative duties. At the same time, the Blankenburg office was abolished and its court district was assigned to the Rudolstadt office.

As part of the introduction of the Reich Justice Laws , the Rudolstadt Office was converted into the Rudolstadt District Court .

Patrimonial courts

A number of patrimonial courts existed in the office . For these places and areas it was not the office but the respective patrimonial court that was the entrance court.

dish	Seat	Art	Judge / Notes
Patrimonial Court of Breitenheerda	Breitenheerda		zu Tännich, 1712 to Amt Ehrenstein
Lichstedt Patrimonial Court	Lichstedt	Inheritance and lower court	von Ketelhodt (from the Blankenburg office since 1829)
Patrimonial Court Tännich	Tännich		1712 to Amt Ehrenstein

The city of Rudolstadt had its own jurisdiction. Teichel also had a jurisdiction (albeit severely restricted).

literature

• Ulrich Hess: History of the state authorities in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . G. Fischer, Jena / Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-334-60503-5 , pp. 141-142

Individual evidence

1. ^ GS Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1850, p. 423
2. ↑ GS Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1858, pp. 117–118
3. ↑ GS Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1868, pp. 130-106