Office Vilbel

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The Office Vilbel (from 1809: Office Vilbel and Kloppenheim ) was an office of the Archbishopric Mainz and later the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt and 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

Half of Vilbel

The Vilbel office initially consisted exclusively of half of the city of Vilbel , which belonged to Kurmainz , and originally came from Falkensteiner property, which in turn came from the Munzenberg inheritance . Vilbel was a condominium that was actually divided, with the nidda as the border. The part to the right of the Nidda belonged to Mainz, the part to the left of the Nidda to the Bornheimerberg office . Under the influence of the Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg , who held the Bornheimerberg office until 1736 and in whose county the Solms land law was customary , the entire Vilbel office also took over this legal system. The common law was only valid if the Solms land law contained no provisions for a matter. When Vilbel belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century, the Solms land law remained in effect there, only replacing the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire on January 1, 1900 .

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the Vilbel office and other remnants of the Mainz bishopric came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt, which became the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806. Here the office was in the province of Upper Hesse (until 1816: Principality of Upper Hesse ).

On April 24, 1809, Napoleon declared the Teutonic Order in the Confederation of the Rhine to be dissolved in the course of the Fifth Coalition War . The ownership of the order was left to the princes of the Rhine Confederation. As a result, its properties in the Grand Duchy fell to it. This included Kloppenheim . The Grand Duchy added this place to the Office Vilbel , the office was subsequently referred to as the Office Vilbel and Kloppenheim .

In 1810, some places that had previously belonged to the French-occupied territory of the Principality of Hanau were added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. These were Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe , Nieder-Eschbach , Ober-Eschbach , Rodheim and Steinbach . These places were initially combined by the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the Rodheim Office , which was added to the Vilbel and Kloppenheim Office in 1820 .

The whole of Vilbel

On June 29, 1816, the Grand Duchy and the Electorate of Hesse signed a state treaty which, among other things, agreed to exchange some of the other peripheral areas. With him, the second half of Vilbel, which had previously been in the Bornheimer Berg office, came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse, which united both halves in its office of Vilbel and Kloppenheim .

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1820, the office of Rodheim was initially added to the office of Vilbel and Kloppenheim . 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. The administrative tasks of the former offices of Vilbel and Kloppenheim were transferred to the district of Vilbel and the jurisdiction to the district court of Großkarben .

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.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the changing rulers of the Bornheimerberg office see there and here .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ewald, p. 54, No. 865.
  2. ^ Bad Vilbel, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Ewald, p. 57, No. 1029.
  5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 410f.
  6. ^ Burgholzhausen in front of the height, Hochtaunuskreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 16, 2018; Nieder-Eschbach, City of Frankfurt am Main . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 16, 2018; Ober-Eschbach, Hochtaunuskreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 16, 2018; Rodheim vd Höhe, Wetterau district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of November 13, 2019; Steinbach (Taunus), Hochtaunuskreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ Ewald, p. 57, No. 1043a.
  8. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 403ff.
  9. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 410.
  10. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 411.