District court Vöhl

District court building, today town hall

The Vöhl District Court (until 1867 Vöhl Regional Court ) was a court of ordinary jurisdiction until 1932 with its seat in Vöhl in what is now the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse .

history

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional courts in 1821/1822 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. In the territorial territories of the province of Upper Hesse there were still legal offices for court cases of second instance in Büdingen and Hungen , which were subordinate to the court. The "Landgericht Vöhl" was therefore from 1821 to 1867 the name for the court of first instance in Vöhl.

In 1822 the administrative district of Vöhl was established for the administration of the former Itter rulership , and jurisdiction was carried out by the Vöhl district court. Both had the same area and corresponded to the previous Itter office .

After the takeover by Prussia in 1867, the district court became the district court of Vöhl.

The district court of Vöhl was closed in 1932. His district was partially assigned to the Frankenberg (Eder) district court and partially to the Jesberg district court .

Supreme Court

The court of second instance was the Giessen court in the Grand Ducal Hesse period . With the takeover by Prussia, the Wiesbaden Court of Appeal took precedence. In 1869, the district or, later, the district court of Marburg became the superordinate court.

building

The district court was initially housed in Vöhl Castle. This castle was built in the middle of the 17th century on the site of a medieval moated castle and was demolished in 1845.

A new courthouse was built for the district court using the stones from the old castle and they moved into in 1846. It was a classical two-story rubble stone building. The service rooms were on the ground floor and the judge's apartment on the upper floor. In addition, there were outbuildings (stables and sheds), since the Hessian district judges at that time also worked as part-time farmers.

With the abolition of the court, the courthouse became the property of the city, which has since used it as the town hall.

Judge

The following judges worked at the court:

• District Judge Johann Christian Friedrich Strecker (1821–1826)
• District Judge Georg Krug (1827–1828)
• District Judge Reinhard August Bodo Tilmann Koch (1828-1853)
• District judge Johann Ernst Friedrich Albert Calmberg (1853–1872) (from 1867: district judge; from 1868: chief magistrate)
• District Judge Karl Theis (1872–1888) (from 1879: District Court Councilor)
• District judge Lahmeyer (1888–1896)
• District Judge Dr. Stüve (1896–1901)
• District Judge Ernst Grote (1901–1920) (from 1909: District Court Councilor)
• District Court Judge Gustav Förster (1921–1932)

literature

• Otfried Keller: The court organization of the Marburg area in the 19th and 20th centuries . 1982, ISBN 3-9800490-5-1 , pp. 207-208

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grand Ducal Ordinance “Regarding the division of the country into district councils and district courts” of July 14, 1821; in: Hess. Reg.Bl. 1821, p. 408

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 39.3 ″  E