Stadtilm Office

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

history

The Stadtilm office was owned by the Old Black Castle, a Wettin fief since 1396. The feudal lordship existed since 1485 with the Ernestine line, since 1657 with Saxe-Gotha and was replaced in 1823.

The Stadtilm office was a condomium in 1221. Half belonged to the Counts of Käfernburg, the other half to the Counts of Schwarzburg. In 1274 the Schwarzburg half fell to Schwarzburg-Blankenburg and in 1340 to Schwarzburg-Wachsenburg. In 1388 the Käfernburg half also fell to Schwarzburg-Wachsenburg. The Stadtilm office passed into the hands of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg in 1434 and that of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1574.

scope

The court included the places:

• Büchelsloh (from the Schwarzburg office since 1826)
• Dienstedt (condomium)
• Dörnfeld an der Ilm (since 1726 from the Schwarzburg office)
• Ellichleben (from the Paulinzella office since 1848)
• Elxleben (since 1599)
• Gräfinau (from the Schwarzburg office since 1826)
• Grosshettstedt
• Hammersfeld
• Oberilm (since the beginning of the 17th century)
• Schwarzburg
• Wüllersleben

tasks

The Stadtilm Office was initially the court of first instance and, at the same time, a lower administrative authority. There was no separation of jurisdiction from administration .

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 Stadtilm 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 The ordinance on the organization of the lower state administrative authorities of May 1, 1858 repealed the district offices and assigned the administrative tasks to the judicial offices.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 restored by a law of February 7, 1868 and the courts were again released from administrative duties.

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

Patrimonial courts

In the Stadtilm office there was a patrimonial court , the Geilsdorf Hereditary Court. For this place, it was not the office, but the respective patrimonial court of entry. The city of Stadtilm had its own jurisdiction.

literature

• Ulrich Hess: History of the state authorities in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . G. Fischer, Jena / Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-334-60503-5 , pp. 137-138

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