With Section 12 of the ordinance of February 22, 1867, the separation of administration and justice was ordered after Nassau was annexed by Prussia . This was not the case in the Duchy of Nassau . The offices were both administrative districts and courts of first instance. With ordinances of June 26, 1867 and August 21, 1867, the judicial function was transferred to the newly created local courts. District courts were created in Dillenburg , Limburg and Wiesbaden , and the higher-level appeal court of Wiesbaden was created in Wiesbaden. It was the successor to the Nassau Higher Appeal Court in Wiesbaden . It was subordinate to the Prussian Higher Tribunal in Berlin .
The court of appeal was responsible for 3 district courts with a total of 33 district courts with a total of 52 district judges .
With the law on the establishment of the higher regional courts and the regional courts of March 4, 1878, the court was dissolved on October 1, 1879. At the same time, the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main was established as the successor. The last president of the court of appeal, Georg Albrecht, became the first president of the new Frankfurt Higher Regional Court.
literature
Georg Schmidt von Rhein: On the history of court organization in the regional court district Limburg; Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 99, 1988, pp. 75-87
Individual evidence
↑ Supplement to the Intelligence Gazette for Nassau No. 16, Wiesbaden, March 11, 1867, p. 109 ff.
↑ Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau, No. 42, Wiesbaden, July 31, 1867, p. 517 ff.
↑ Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau No. 47, Wiesbaden, August 28, 1867, p. 809 ff.
↑ Law Collection for the Royal Prussian States 1878, No. 12, pp. 109–124
