Office Scots

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The office of Schotten was an office of the Landgraviate and finally 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 Office Scots belonged due to the division of the land county Hessen after the death of Landgrave Philip I in 1567 initially to Hesse-Rheinfels . When their regent, Landgrave Philipp II , died in 1583 without a male heir, the office of Schotten came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , which was elevated to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806 . Here the office was in the province of Upper Hesse .

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 by the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The administrative tasks of the former Schotten office were transferred to the districts of Schotten and Nidda (this concerned the places of the Widdersheim court), the jurisdiction of the Schotten and Nidda regional courts (this concerned the places of the Widdersheim court). The Widdersheim court was the predominant part of the former Stornfels office . The Schotten office was dissolved.

Components

At the end of the Old Kingdom , the following municipalities belonged to the Office of Schotten :

Law

In Office Scots was considered a particular law , the Common Law . It retained its validity even in the entire 19th century and was until 1 January 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced.

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.

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. 403ff.
  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. 412.
  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. 411.
  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.
  5. ↑ Ehwald, p. 50.
  6. ↑ Ehwald, p. 49f.
  7. ↑ Betzenrod, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  8. ^ Borsdorf, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  9. ↑ Götzen, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  10. ^ House courtyard, Wetterau district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of April 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ Schotten, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ Michelbach, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  13. ^ Nübel, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of November 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ Ober-Widdersheim, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  15. ^ Rainrod, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  16. ↑ Rudingshain, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  17. ↑ Schotten, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  18. ↑ According to Ehwald, p. 50, on the Widdersheim court; to Grund-Schwalheim, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; Status: May 28, 2018, to the Office of Schotten.
  19. ↑ Stornfels, Wetterau district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  20. ↑ Ulfa, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  21. ↑ Unter-Widdersheim, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  22. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. Map.