Office Runkel

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Map of the Runkel Office 1828

The Runkel office was a Runkel and later a Nassau administrative and judicial district. It existed since the High Middle Ages and ended in 1867.

history

Runkel

The Runkel rule came into being with the construction of Runkel Castle . The formation of an office Runkel took place at the latest in the 14th century. In 1376 Siegfried and Dietrich von Runkel acquired sovereignty over the towns of Aumenau and Schupach as well as the villages of Ennerich , Steeden and Obertiefenbach as a Diezisches fiefdom . An office structure was set up to administer the rulership. In 1396 the first bailiff was mentioned in a document in Runkel. As part of the inheritance divisions of the House of Runkel, the offices of Schadeck and Villmar were later separated.

The office consisted of the courts Runkel , Aumenau and Schupach . The area of ​​the office was fragmented. The limits of these dishes are documented for the first time in the Aumenau Centersum of September 7, 1495 and in the Schupacher Centersum of September 16, 1495.

On October 9, 1596 it was agreed in a contract between Count Wilhelm von Wied-Runkel and the Trier Elector Johann VII that the sovereignty of the places Villmar and Arfurt should pass to Kurtrier .

Nassau

Due to the resolutions in the Rhine Federation Act and the mediatization of Prince von Wied-Runkel , in 1806 the villages on the right of the Lahn became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg and the villages on the left of the Lahn became the Duchy of Nassau . After the Congress of Vienna (1815), the entire area came to Nassau. Under the Nassau administration, the Runkel office was expanded on July 1, 1816 to include the former Trier villages of Villmar and Arfurt and the leinigen-western castle town of Schadeck .

In some cases, the prerogatives of the previous sovereigns continued to exist . The official name of the office was therefore the Ducal Nassau and Princely Wied-Runkel office with the Gräflich-Leiningen-Westerburg rule of Schadeck .

In 1820 the office consisted of 21 parish districts, including a town, a town, 20 villages and 28 farms and mills. 2,529 families or 10,159 residents lived in the office. Of these, 7,024 were Protestants, 2,693 Catholic, 20 Mennonites and 422 Jews.

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The administrative tasks of the Runkel office were carried out by the Limburg district office , the jurisdiction of the Runkel judicial office. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

Prussia

After the German War , Nassau was annexed by Prussia . On February 22, 1867, the Oberlahnkreis was formed from the offices of Weilburg , Office Runkel and Hadamar . Only as part of this reorganization will administration and jurisdiction be separated. The judicial officials in the offices were initially responsible for the jurisdiction in the first instance, which was previously carried out by the office, and the Runkel district court was formed on September 1, 1867 .

But even after the founding of the district, the previous office structure will be retained. The Royal Ordinance of February 22, 1867 regulated: "The administrative districts as narrower administrative districts exist in their previous limits" The former offices form the three districts of the district. According to § 13 of the district constitution, the districts sent the former offices six representatives to the new district council . The bailiff was in charge of the local police and the district administrator.

With the administrative reform of 1885/1886 the offices were finally dissolved.

Bailiffs

  • Johann Dyme von Langenau 1396-1397
  • Arnold Scherre von Waldmannshausen 1420–1424
  • Antonius Schütz von Holzhausen 1467–1489
  • Rulmann Waldbot from Pfaffendorf 1492–1509
  • Heinrich Riedesel 1512–1546
  • Wilhelm von Waldmannshausen 1549
  • Kuno Schütz von Holzhausen 1558–1570
  • Philipp von Schönborn 1573–1587
  • Adam von Stein 1590
  • Georg Zand von Merl 1594–1597
  • Johann Christof Becker 1635–1639
  • Johann Wilhelm von Walrabenstein 1650–1661
  • Georg Friedrich Strobel 1694-1700
  • Karl Ludwig Knisel 1808–1814
  • Johann Ludwig Braun 1814 / 1816–1819
  • Friedrich Ferdinand of Saint George 1819–1923
  • Philipp Freudenberg 1824-1834
  • Arnold von Sachs 1835
  • Friedrich Heusler 1836–1837
  • Ferdinand Vogler 1838-1848
  • Friedrich Knisel (1848–1849)
  • Cuntz (judicial administrator) 1849–1851
  • Wilhelm Usener (1851 administrator of the judiciary) 1851–1854
  • Heinrich Langsdorff (1855-1857)
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Anton Güll (1858–1863)
  • Franz Winter (1864–1866)
  • David Christian Schütz (1867 / 1868–1872)
  • Albert Heinrich Hermann Wilhelm Stahl (1873–1877)
  • Hans Ernst Albrecht Graf von Carmer (acting) (1878–1883)
  • Hugo Max Ferdinand von Auer (1885–1886)

literature

  • Karl Hermann May: Territorialgeschichte des Oberlahnkreises , 1939, page 46, 51–65, 125–126, 141–145, 153–157, 166–168
  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau , the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815–1945 , 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 176–177

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409)
  2. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)
  3. ↑ VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
  4. ↑ Royal Decree of February 22, 1867 Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau of March 11, 1867, § 8 and 9
  5. ↑ GS 1885, p. 229