Office Utphe

The Office Utphe was an office of the Counts of Solms-Laubach and subsequently in the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

function

In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . 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 1528 Count Philipp von Solms-Lich bought the farm in Utphe for 2,000 florins, including interest at Ober-Bessingen , Ettingshausen , Gonterskirchen , Laubach and Trais-Horloff . The Amt Utphe belonged to the county of Solms-Laubach in the early modern period . For a short time, a separate line of the county of Solms-Laubach with Solms-Laubach-Utphe was formed. The brothers Friedrich Ernst (1671–1723) and Carl Otto (1673–1743) von Solms-Laubach agreed that Carl Otto would take over the office of Utphe. His son Carl Ludwig (1704–1762) died unmarried and childless. With that the office fell back to Laubach.

With the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806, state sovereignty over the county of Solms-Laubach fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. This incorporated the area into the Principality of Upper Hesse (from 1816: "Province of Upper Hesse"), but was subject to the restriction that the count retained the rank of landlord and he continued to exercise sovereign rights in administration and jurisdiction . This independent sovereignty naturally interfered with the Grand Duchy's claim to the state monopoly of force .

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1821, jurisdiction and administration were separated at the lower level and all offices were dissolved. For the previously perceived by the offices administrative tasks were district districts created for the first-instance jurisdiction district courts.

Because of the transverse rights of the landlords, this lasted until 1822 in some of the areas they ruled, including in the Solms-Laubach area: With the Highest Resolution of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke on April 24, 1822, the former Count of Solms-Laubach Office Utphe was dissolved and its administrative tasks on the newly formed district of Hungen , whose tasks in the jurisdiction are transferred to the district court of Hungen .

Components

At the time of its transition to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, the Utphe office included:

Pagans ,
Solm's share in the Munzenberg rule
Trais Munzenberg
Trais-Horloff ,
Utphe and
Wohnbach .

Law

In the Utphe office , the Solms land law applied . The common law was only valid if the Solms land law contained no provisions for a matter. The Solms land law remained valid there even when the Amt Utphe belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which did not replace the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire until January 1, 1900 .

Official seat

Solmsian Hofgut

The official seat was the Solmsische Hofgut also known as "Utpher Castle". The building complex, built in 1707, is a listed building .

Remarks

↑ From 1806 the Laubach and the Braunfels quarters of the condominium of the Munzenberg estate belonged to the Grand Duchy, from 1810 also the half that had originally belonged to the County of Hanau-Munzenberg and from 1736 to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel (L. Ewald: Contributions to regional studies . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landes-Statistik (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862, pp. 55, 57, no. 923, 948b and 1034c).

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Battenberg , Solms documents. Regesta on the document holdings and copies of the Counts and Princes of Solms in the State Archives Darmstadt (Departments B 9 and F 24 B), in the Count's Archives in Laubach and in the Princely Archives in Lich. 1131-1913. Vol. 1–5, Darmstadt 1981–1986. Solms documents 3, no.2654, 2680.
^ Utphe, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
^ Rudolph Graf zu Solms-Laubach: History of the Count and Princely House of Solms, 1865, p. 355 and a., digitized
↑ Art. 24 Rhine Confederation Act .
^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, pp. 403ff.
^ The new regional division and organization of the lower-level judiciary and administrative authorities - especially concerning the princely and countless Solms possessions . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 15 of May 10, 1822, p. 182.
^ Inheiden, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
^ Munzenberg, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
↑ Trais, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
↑ Trais-Horloff, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
^ Utphe, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
^ Wohnbach, District of Giessen . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 106, as well as the enclosed map.
↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.): Totality of the Hofgut Utphe In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse