Wenings Office

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The Wenings office was an office of the county, later of the Principality of Isenburg-Birstein , the Principality of Isenburg 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 Wenings' office , the Solms land law has been in effect since 1578 , the common law only if the regulations of the Solms land law did not contain any provisions for a matter. The Solms land law remained in force when the office belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century. This legal situation was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

The Principality of Isenburg-Birstein was part of the Principality of Isenburg during the time of the Confederation of the Rhine . The Office Wenings had in the new state inventory. At the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Principality of Isenburg itself lost its sovereignty and was mediated in favor of Austria . Austria passed the area on: On June 30, 1816, it signed a state treaty with Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse, through which the Principality of Isenburg largely belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The Grand Duchy incorporated the Wenings office into its province of Upper Hesse . In all these transactions, the ancestral rights of the princes of Isenburg-Birstein were preserved in the office. Their rights as rulers enjoyed the protection of the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806. The office was thus one of the so-called "sovereign lands" in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, as the princes of Isenburg-Birstein continued to exercise sovereign rights in administration and jurisdiction in their ancestral territory . 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. From 1821 on, jurisdiction and administration were separated and all offices were dissolved at the lower level . District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed by the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction.

Because of the transverse rights of the noblemen, the restructuring process took longer in some of the areas they governed; in the area of ​​the Wenings office , the reform was carried out in 1822: The tasks that the Wenings office had previously performed in the administration were transferred to the newly formed district of Büdingen , the tasks that it had performed in the case law, transferred to the district court Büdingen . The Office Wenings was dissolved.

Components

At the time of the takeover by the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Wenings office included:

The area of ​​the Wenings office lay within the boundaries of today's communities Birstein , Gedern , Hirzenhain , Kefenrod and Ortenberg .

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.
  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The original, full name was: Großherzoglich Hessischer Fürstlich und Gräflich Isenburgischer Landraths-Bezirk Büdingen ( The formation of the Landraths- and Landgerichtsbezirks Büdingen on January 24, 1822. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 5 of February 15, 1822, p. 32).
  2. ↑ The original, full name was: Großherzoglich Hessischer Fürstlich und Gräflich Isenburgischer Landgerichts-Bezirk Büdingen ( The formation of the Landraths- and Landgerichtsbezirks Büdingen on January 24, 1822. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 5 of February 15, 1822, p. 32).
  3. ↑ The part of the village to the right of the Bleichenbach had belonged to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg / County of Hanau and fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel when the last Count of Hanau died in 1736 on the basis of an inheritance contract . He belonged to the Hanau district of Ortenberg , which had already become part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1810.
  4. ↑ Originally belonged to the county of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach ( Hitzkirchen, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historisches Ortslexikon ; as of October 16, 2018).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmidt, p. 107, as well as the enclosed map.
  2. ^ Wenings, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Art. 52 main document of the Congress of Vienna .
  4. ↑ Art. 7 No. 1 of the State Treaty - Schmidt, p. 42, note 135, point. 5 (p. 43).
  5. ↑ Art. 27 Rhine Confederation Act .
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ The formation of the district council and district court district of Büdingen on January 24, 1822. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 5 of February 15, 1822, p. 31f.
  8. ↑ Ewald, p. 57.
  9. ↑ Allenrod, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of January 7, 2011.
  10. ↑ Ewald, p. 57.
  11. ^ Burgbracht, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ Gelnhaar, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  13. ^ Illnhausen, Main-Kinzig-Kreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of June 1, 2018.
  14. ↑ Merkenfritz, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  15. ^ Wenings, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  16. ^ Wernings, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of March 15, 2018.
  17. ↑ Bindsachsen, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  18. ^ Hitzkirchen, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  19. ↑ Kefenrod, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.