District court Runkel

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The District Court of Runkel was a court of ordinary jurisdiction that existed from 1867 to 1968 and was based in the city of Runkel .

history

prehistory

In the Duchy of Nassau , civil matters were first ruled by the offices, in this case the Runkel office . Justice and administration were not separate.

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 Runkel office were carried out by the Limburg district office , the jurisdiction of the Runkel judicial office . However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

Judges during this time were:

  • Cuntz (judicial administrator) 1849–1851
  • Wilhelm Usener (1851 administrator of the judiciary) 1851–1854

District Court

After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau by the Prussian state , a royal decree was issued in June 1867 which repealed the previous Nassau judicial authorities, some of which also performed administrative functions, and replaced them with local courts in the first, district courts in the second and an appeal court in the third. As a result, the Prussian Ministry of Justice ordered the establishment of a district court in Runkel on September 1, 1867, the district of which was formed from the Runkel office and thus from the town of Runkel and the villages of Arfurt , Aumenau , Blessenbach , Ennerich , Eschenau , Falkenbach , Gaudernbach , and Heckholzhausen , Hofen , Langhecke , Laubuseschbach , Münster , Obertiefenbach , Schadeck , Schupbach , Seelbach , Steeden , Villmar , Weyer , Wirbelau and Wolfenhausen .

This dish belonged initially to the district of the District Court Limburg , came about because of the Judicature Act , effective October 1, 1879 change in the district of the newly established District Court Limburg , the district of the local court but even did not change.

With effect from January 1, 1933, the community of Niedertiefenbach was assigned from the district of Hadamar District Court .

On July 1, 1968, the Runkel District Court was dissolved and its entire district was added to the Weilburg District Court .

Courthouse

Entrance area of ​​the district court building

The court was located at Burgstrasse 4 in Runkel. The large bare brick building was built from 1883 to 1887 according to the design of the royal building councilor Max Spinn and, after being used by the film lighting manufacturer Otto Hedler for a few years after the court was dissolved, today it serves as the town hall.

Web links

Commons : Former courthouse in Runkel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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)
  2. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)
  3. ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories excluding the Meisenheim district of June 26, 1867 ( PrGS 1867, p. 1094 )
  4. ↑ Order of August 7, 1867, regarding the establishment of the according to the Most High Ordinance of June 26th J. New courts to be formed in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories, with the exclusion of the Oberamtsbezirks Meisenheim ( JMBl. P. 218 )
  5. ↑ 21. Ducal Nassau and Princely Wiedisches Amt Runkel, with the Count of Leiningen-Westerburg rule Schadeck. In: State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1866. Stein, Wiesbaden, pp. 153–156.
  6. ↑ Ordinance on the establishment of local courts of July 26, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, p. 275 )
  7. ↑ Ordinance on the formation of the district court districts of July 5, 1879 ( PrGS 1879, p. 549 )
  8. ↑ Second ordinance on changes in the delimitation of district courts of November 24, 1932 ( PrGS 1932, p. 353 )
  9. ↑ Second law amending the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210–16) of February 12, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1968 No. 4 , p. 41–44 , Article 1, Paragraph 5 c) and Article 2, Paragraph 7 a) ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 298 kB ]).
  10. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Former. District Court In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
  11. ↑ History of the Circle ( Memento from November 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 20.2 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 17.1 ″  E