Office Seeheim
The Office Seeheim or Office Seeheim and Tannenberg was an Erbachian and later a Hessian office based in Seeheim .
Name and position
The designation as Office Seeheim and Tannenberg refers to the Tannenberg Castle .
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
In a recess in 1410, the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Lordship of Erbach agreed to divide up the areas around Seeheim and Bickenbach. Thereafter, the lordship of Erbach received the Tannenberg Castle and the areas of the later Office Seeheim as a Hessian fief . The centering jurisdiction remained with Hesse. In the Landshut War of Succession (1504/05) Hesse occupied these areas again. In 1527 there was another comparison. Landgrave Philipp I (the magnanimous) ceded the Seeheim office and the Hessian part of Tannenberg Castle to Schenk Eberhard von Erbach.
On December 15, 1714, Count Georg Albrecht von Erbach sold the Seeheim and Tannenberg offices to Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt for 221,750 guilders .
Duration
| 1783 | 1806 | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| Balkhausen | Balkhausen | |
| Beedenkirchen | Beedenkirchen | Listed in 1440 as part of the Lichtenberg Office . |
| Bickenbach | Bickenbach | |
| Hartenau | today: Hartenauer Hof near Bickenbach | |
| Youth home | Youth home | |
| Malchen | Malchen | Belongs to the Lichtenberg winery in 1430 |
| Ober-Beerbach | ||
| Schmal-Beerbach | ||
| Granulator | Probably a solitary farm | |
| Seeheim | Seeheim | Listed in 1440 as part of the Lichtenberg Office . |
| Season | Season | |
| Stettbach | ||
| Wurzelbach |
The End
With the collapse of the old order as a result of the French Revolution , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt also had to reorganize itself, above all to integrate the areas gained through secularization and mediatization into the state. From the areas south of the Main , which now belonged to the Landgraviate, the Principality of Starkenburg (later: Province of Starkenburg ) was formed, in which the Seeheim office was also located.
With the implementing ordinance of December 9, 1803, the central courts were repealed and the jurisdiction of the first instance in civil matters was concentrated in the offices. With the executive order of December 9, 1803, the judicial system of the two higher authorities was reorganized. For the Principality of Starkenburg, the “Hofgericht Darmstadt” became the second instance court for civil matters. It was also responsible in the first instance for civil family matters and criminal matters . The higher appeal court in Darmstadt was superordinate to it .
In 1806 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt became the Grand Duchy of Hessen .
In 1821 there was another administrative reform. With it, the court and administration were separated at the lowest level. District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The Bensheim district and the Zwingenberg district court took over the tasks of the dissolved Seeheim office .
Bailiffs
- From 1694 to 1701 Johann Ludwig Fichardt was bailiff in Seeheim.
- From 1735 to 1752 Georg Alexander Campen was bailiff in Seeheim.
- From 1752 to 1756 Gottlieb Christoph Lichtenberg was bailiff in Seeheim.
- From 1757 to 1761 Carl Franz Strecker was bailiff in Seeheim.
- From 1762 to 1769 Friedrich Theophil Schmidt was the bailiff in Seeheim.
- From 1769 to 1788 Johann Christoph Pistor was a bailiff in Seeheim.
- From 1788 to 1816, his son Johann Ludwig Pistor was bailiff in Seeheim.
Office building
The old office building was built from the 14th century . Originally, Tannenberg Castle was the administrative center. After the destruction of the Tannenburg in 1399, a new seat was needed for the bailiff in the Seeheim district. The Amtshaus was the bailiff's residential building and part of a complex of farm buildings, stables, cellars and tithe barn.
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 50.6 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 54.5" E
Worth knowing
The last third of the 16th century by Johann Kleinschmidt , Chancellor of the Landgrave George I of Hesse-Darmstadt, assembled collection Land Law of Upper Katzenelnbogen was true in all communities of the Office Seeheim as a particular law , subsidiary complemented by the Common Law , to the end 19th century. It was not until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was suspended.
literature
- Rudolf Kunz, Tannenberg-Seeheim Office. In: Heimatbuch Seeheim-Jugenheim, Seeheim-Jugenheim, 1981.
Individual evidence
- ^ Helfrich Bernhard Wenck: Hessische Landesgeschichte, Volume 1, 1783, pp. 630–633, digitized
- ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , inventory E 8 A No. 352/4 .
- ↑ a b c Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place names book: Starkenburg . Ed .: Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse. tape 1 . Self-published, Darmstadt 1937, DNB 366995820 , OCLC 614375103 , p. 428 ff .
- ↑ Grand Ducal Ordinance on the division of the country into district councils and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 404.
- ^ Fichardt, Johann Ludwig in the Hessian Biography
- ↑ Camping, Georg Alexander in the Hessian Biography
- ↑ Lichtenberg, Gottlieb Christoph in the Hessian biography
- ^ Strecker, Carl Franz in the Hessian Biography
- ^ Schmidt, Friedrich Theophil in the Hessian biography
- ^ Pistor, Johann Christoph in the Hessian biography
- ^ Pistor, Johann Ludwig in the Hessian Biography
- ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 108f. and enclosed card.