Office Ulrichstein

The Ulrichstein office was an office of the Landgraviate and, most recently, of 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.

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Components

At the end of its existence, the Ulrichstein office was subdivided into the judicial districts of Bobenhausen , Felda and Storndorf . The town of Ulrichstein was also added as a separate district. The associated localities were:

• Altenhain , Bobenhausen court
• Bobenhausen , Bobenhausen Court
• Felda , Felda Court
  • Groß-Felda
  • Klein-Felda
• Field crutches , Bobenhausen court
• Höckersdorf , Bobenhausen court
• Helpershain , Felda Court
• Kestrich , Felda Court
• Köddingen , Felda court
• Kölzenhain , Bobenhausen court
• Langwasser (Hof), Felda court
• Meiches , Felda Court
• Ober-Seibertenrod , Bobenhausen court
• Petershainer Hof , Felda Court
• Schellnhausen , Felda court
• Schmitten (court), Bobenhausen court
• Selgenhof (courtyard), Felda court
• Sellnrod , Bobenhausen court
• Sigmundshäuser Hof (court), Felda court
• Storndorf , Storndorf Court
• Stumpertenrod , Felda court
• Ulrichstein
• Windhausen , Felda court
• Housing area , Bobenhausen court

history

The Ulrichstein office belonged to the old stock of the Landgraviate of Hesse. After the division of Hesse in the 16th and 17th centuries, it finally came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , which then became 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, the offices were all dissolved. District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed in the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. The Ulrichstein office was also dissolved and divided up in the course of this reform: the administrative tasks for the district of the Bobenhausen court were transferred to the Schotten district council , the jurisdiction to the Schotten district court . The administrative tasks of the districts of the Felda court and the Storndorf court fell to the Romrod district council , the jurisdiction to the Alsfeld district court .

Law

In Office Ulrichstein which applied Common Law . It retained its validity throughout the 19th century and was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

swell

• 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.
• Ulrichstein, Vogelsberg district . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
• Ordinance on the division of the country into district councils and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt dated July 20, 1821, pp. 403–415.

Remarks

1. ^ The village and court of Storndorf were previously a condominium between the Grand Duchy and the von Seebach family . The latter had transferred its rights to the Grand Duchy before 1821.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country , pp. 412, 414.
2. ↑ Ehwald, p. 39ff (53).
3. ↑ LAGIS (web links).
4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403ff.
5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country , p. 412.
6. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country , p. 414.
7. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 111.