Office Schaafheim

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The Schaafheim office was an administrative unit of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt and then the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The seat of the administration was the place Schaafheim .

location

The area of ​​the Schaafheim office was on the northern edge of the Odenwald , south of Babenhausen and Aschaffenburg .

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

Hanau

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736, Landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel inherited the County of Hanau-Münzenberg on the basis of a contract of inheritance from 1643 , due to the intestinal succession , the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell to the son of Johann Reinhard III's only daughter, Landgrave Ludwig IX. from Hessen-Darmstadt.

Hessen-Kassel ./. Hessen-Darmstadt

The affiliation of the Babenhausen office to Hanau-Münzenberg or Hanau-Lichtenberg was disputed between the two heirs . There was almost a military conflict when both Hessians tried to occupy the office of Babenhausen militarily. Hessen-Darmstadt succeeded in occupying the places Altheim , Dietzenbach , Harpertshausen , Schaafheim and Schlierbach . Hessen-Kassel, which had the more effective military that was also stationed in Hanau as a precaution , occupied the greater part of the Babenhausen office. The dispute over the inheritance could only be ended with a settlement in 1771 after a long-standing legal dispute before the highest imperial courts , the so-called participation recess . This essentially laid down the military status quo achieved in 1736.

Hessen-Darmstadt

Hessen-Darmstadt formed the Schaafheim office out of the part of the Babenhausen office that had fallen to it. These included:

In 1803, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt consolidated its ancestral territories and those acquired with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , which lay south of the Main , in a newly created principality of Starkenburg (from 1816: Province of Starkenburg ). With the dissolution of the Old Reich and joining the Rhine Confederation in 1806, the Landgraviate received the status of a Grand Duchy . The Schaafheim office remained in place even now.

In 1821 there was an administrative reform in the Grand Duchy. At the same time, jurisdiction and administration were separated and all offices dissolved at the lower level . District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed by the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The tasks that the Office of Schaafheim had previously performed were now divided between two regional courts and two regional courts:

literature

  • Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in Hanau. The position of the lords and counts in Hanau-Münzenberg based on the archival sources = Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 (ed.): Hanauer Geschichtsblätter Volume 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5 , pp. 208-210.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 until the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform = Darmstädter Archivschriften 2. 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. Dietrich, pp. 194f.
  2. Dietrich, p. 195.
  3. Dietrich, pp. 206-208.
  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. 45.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403ff.
  6. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette from July 20, 1821, p. 405.
  7. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette from July 20, 1821, p. 405.
  8. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessian Government Gazette of July 20, 1821, p. 406.