Neukirchen District Court

The Neukirchen District Court (until 1867 Neukirchen Justice Office ) was a court of ordinary jurisdiction until 1968 with its seat in Neukirchen (Knüll) in today's Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

history

The Neukirchen court had existed since the Middle Ages. The jurisdiction of the lower courts was in the Hesse-Kassel by the bailiff of the Office Neukirchen perceived.

The reorganization of the judiciary in the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 led to the separation of jurisdiction and administration. The canton of Neukirchen was now responsible for administration, the Neukirchen Peace Court for jurisdiction. The peace court was subordinate to the district court of Hersfeld , which was responsible for the district of Hersfeld .

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 Neukirchen office in 1814. With an edict of June 29, 1821, administration and justice were separated in Kurhessen. Now judicial offices were responsible for the first instance jurisdiction, the administration was taken over by districts . The Neukirchen Justice Office was set up in Neukirchen.

The new judicial office in Neukirchen had a total of 7467 inhabitants. It was made of:

• the previous office of Neukirchen, without Berffa and Görzhain ,
• Schwarzenborn together with the farms Kämmershagen and Richberg, as well as Hauptschwend , from the previous office of Neuenstein ,
• Christerode , from the previous office Oberaula , and
• Seigertshausen together with Hergetsmühle and Happersmühle, from the previous office of Ziegenhain .

After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia , the justice office became the royal Prussian district court of Neukirchen in 1867. Even with the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act of 1877, the Neukirchen District Court remained in existence.

In 1940 and 1941, the Neukirchen District Court was temporarily administered by assessors, and in 1943 by the Gladenbach District Court Council until it was converted into a branch of the Treysa District Court. In 1947 it became a full court again.

On July 1, 1968, the Neukirchen District Court was dissolved and its district was assigned to the Treysa District Court district.

Judge

The following judges worked at the court:

• Justice officer Friedrich Leopold Ludwig von Schutzbar called Milchling (1821–1839)
• Justice officer Franz Knobel (1839-846)
• Judicial officer Emil Cöster (1846–1861)
• Justice officer Dethard Wilhelm Uckermann (1861–1866)
• Judicial officer Theodor Stöber (1866–1879) (from September 1, 1867: magistrate; from 1868: magistrate)
• Appointed Chief Magistrate Georg Kellner (1879–1886) (from 1879: District Court Councilor)
• District judge Hempfing (1886-1893)
• District Judge Schemann (1893–1902) (from 1902: District Court Councilor)
• District judge Erwin Hoffmann (1903–1910)
• District judge Fritz Moll (1910–1914)
• District Judge Werner König (1914–1927) (later: District Court Councilor)
• District Court Judge Karl Steinmetz (1927–1934)
• District Court Judge Hermann Drüeke (1934–1943)
• District Court Judge Karl Steinmetz (1947–1953)
• District Court Judge Rudolf Breul (1953–1968) (from 1965: Chief Magistrate)

building

The judicial office was initially housed in a room in the town hall. This room was considered totally inappropriate. In a report to the higher court in Marburg, the master builder Selig reported on October 17, 1824 that the room was more a barn than a room, the beams of the dilapidated building had sunk so far that one could no longer stand in the middle of the room. Above all, the stench from the cowshed, which was located on the ground floor, was so strong that the health of the judicial officer was endangered. According to this report, rooms were rented from the post office administrator Schwieder. After this tenancy was terminated by the landlord in 1830, rooms in the house of the widow Gutberlet were rented. This, too, could only be a temporary measure.

In 1834 the judicial administration acquired a piece of land in Niederrheinische Strasse and built the new courthouse on it. This house, which also contained the judge's service apartment, was used by the judicial office and later by the district court until its abolition in 1968. It was then sold and used as a commercial building, later largely demolished and a new supermarket built there.

literature

• Otfried Keller: The court organization of the Marburg area in the 19th and 20th centuries , 1982, ISBN 3-9800490-5-1 , pp. 126–127 and 196–198

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Lüders (ed.): Diplomatic Archive for Europe: a collection of documents with historical introductions , Volume 2, 2nd section, Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1821 and 1822, p. 567

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 46 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  E