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The office of Wehen with its seat in Wehen was an office of the Counts of Nassau, from 1355 to 1629 of Nassau-Idstein and from 1728 to 1806 of Nassau-Usingen and then a Nassau office in the Duchy of Nassau .

history

HRR

In 1444 Wehen is the seat of the office of the same name, to which Wehen, Bleidenstadt, Orlen, Wingsbach, Born, Seitzenhahn and Hahn belonged. The scope of the office remained unchanged until 1816.

Duchy of Nassau

The Wehen office, based in Wehen, was one of 28 offices in the Duchy of Nassau, which was created on July 1, 1816 as part of a reorganization of the Nassau administration. At the head of the Office of the Duke stood as a local governor a bailiff .

The following 35 localities belonged to the Wehen office:

In 1820 it comprised 35 community districts (all villages; cities or towns did not exist in the office) and 35 farms and mills. In 1867 families or 7,685 residents lived in the office. 6,976 of these were Protestant, 552 Catholic, 4 Mennonites and 153 Jews.

In the State and Address Handbook of the Duchy of Nassau from 1862, the office was described as follows:

The office covered a total of 85,094 acres , of which 31,230 acres were arable land and 39,320 acres. It was divided into 35 municipal districts, consisting of 35 localities with eight courtyards and individual houses, 22 mills, two iron hammers, an ironworks and two brickworks; a lead and silver ore mine, three iron stone and seven roof slate pits.

According to a census at the end of 1861, 2,968 families lived in 1,826 houses in the district; the total population was 11,714, including 10,551 Evangelical Christian, 958 Catholics and 205 Jews.

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The administrative tasks of the Wehen office were carried out by the Langen-Schwalbach district office , the jurisdiction of the Wehen judicial office. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

Prussia

After the Prussian annexation of the Duchy when the new Hesse-Nassau province was divided into districts on February 22, 1867, the Wehen office became part of the Untertaunuskreis . Only as part of this reorganization will administration and jurisdiction be separated. For the jurisdiction in the first instance, which was previously carried out by the office, the judicial officials in the offices were initially responsible and on September 1, 1867 the District Court of Wehen was formed.

But even after the founding of the district, the previous office structure will be retained. The Royal Ordinance of February 22, 1867 regulated: "The administrative districts as narrower administrative districts exist in their previous limits" The former offices form the three districts of the district. According to § 13 of the district constitution, the districts sent the former offices six representatives to the new district council . The bailiff was in charge of the local police and the district administrator.

With the administrative reform of 1885/1886 the offices were finally dissolved.

people

Bailiffs

State high schools

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945, 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 184-185

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wehen, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Duchy of Nassau dated June 7, 1816 ( online )
  3. ^ Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research : Volume 10, 1870, p. 334 ( online )
  4. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1862 , Wiesbaden, 1862, p. 156 ( online )
  5. Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409)
  6. Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)
  7. VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
  8. Royal Decree of February 22, 1867 Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau of March 11, 1867, § 8 and 9
  9. GS 1885, p. 229