Weather Office (Hessen)

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The Weather Office was an administrative and judicial unit in the Landgraviate of Hesse and in the Electorate of Hesse with its seat in Wetter (Hesse) .

It consisted of the places Wetter, Amönau , Oberndorf , Treisbach , Niederasphe , Untersimtshausen , Todenhausen , Mellnau , Ober- and Niederrosphe , Niederwetter , Göttingen , Sterzhausen , Warzenbach and Sarnau .

The weather court has existed since the Middle Ages. This was the subject of a conflict between the Archbishopric of Mainz and the Landgraviate of Hesse. For this development see Stift Wetter # Dispute between the Archdiocese of Mainz and the Landgraviate of Thuringia (1238 to 1263) . An official structure was created as part of the territorialization . The Mainz part was called the Mellnau Office and its seat was in Mellnau Castle . The Hessian part formed the Weather Office. In the 15th and 16th centuries, sovereignty passed to the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Mainz and Hessian parts of the office were combined. The jurisdiction of the lower courts was in the Hesse-Kassel by the bailiff perceived or treasurer of the Office weather, which also undertook administrative tasks. In addition, there was a mayor in Wetter .

The reorganization of the judiciary in the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 led to the separation of jurisdiction and administration . The canton of Wetter was now responsible for the administration, the District Court of Wetter for the jurisdiction.

With the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1813, the separation of jurisdiction and administration was reversed and the Electorate of Hesse reintroduced the Wetter office in 1814.

By ordinance of June 29, 1821, administration and justice were separated in Kurhessen (Section 137). Now there were judicial authorities in charge of the first-instance jurisdiction, the administration was taken over by circles (here the district Marburg , country circle after 1930). The Wetter Judicial Office was set up in Wetter .

Officer

Officials of Mellnau and Wetter

  • Hartmann von Hachen and Ludwig von Lohra (1316)
  • Siegfried von Biedenfeld (1326, 1327)
  • Ludwig Strinz and Johann Schreiber (1380)
  • Johann von Nordeck zu Rabenau (1462, 1478)
  • Johann Hottope (1465)
  • Kraft von Hatzfeld (1483, 1492, 1496)
  • Bullhead from Fleckenbühl (1501, 1507, 1510, 1512)
  • Kraft von Hatzfeld (1514)

Rentmaster

  • Heinrich Hart (1477)
  • Johann Brendel (1494, 1495, 1501)
  • Peter of Saxony (1512, 1516, 1517, 1520, 1522, 1523, 1524, 1527)
  • Heinrich Ebel (1573)

literature

  • Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . T. Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 389 ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  • Karl Heinrich Schäfer: On the history of the localities in the weather department before the 17th century, 1929
  • Ludwig Lotzenius: History of the Hessian authorities Battenberg and Wetter, edited by Matthias Seim 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance of June 29, 1821 on the restructuring of the previous state administration. In: Collection of laws, ordinances, notices and other general orders for Kurhessen from 1821 (Hof- und Waisenhaus-Druckerei, Cassel), kurhess GS 1821, pp. 29–62; also in: Wilhelm Möller and Karl Fuchs (eds.): Collection of the legal provisions still valid in the Electorate of Hesse from 1813 to 1860. Elwert'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Marburg and Leipzig 1866, pp. 311–351
  2. ↑ Ordinance of August 30th, 1821, concerning the new division of the area , Annex: Overview of the new division of the Electorate of Hesse according to provinces, districts and judicial districts. Collection of laws etc. for the Electoral Hesse states. Year 1821 - No. XV. - August., ( Kurhess GS 1821) p. 69 (70-77)