Supreme Court

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The external court was a court in the area of Kirtorf in Upper Hesse . It was counted as part of the Landgraviate of Hesse , although the Lords of Schenck zu Schweinsberg had considerable rights there .

history

Old empire

Since the last third of the 14th century, the outer court was a condominium between the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Lords of Schenck zu Schweinsberg. The Hessian share came from the Ziegenhain inheritance , the Schencken had their share from the county of Nassau as a fief . The condominate referred to the court as a whole and to the majority of the individual localities that belonged to it. Other localities were in the sole possession of the Lords of Schenck zu Schweinsberg. It turned out as follows:

The external court extended over the boundaries of today's communities Antrifttal , Homberg (Ohm) and Kirtorf .

designation

The term external court is based on the following facts: In the surrounding judicial districts, the courts are made up of lay judges from the central town and the surrounding villages. But that did not work here because the central town of Kirtorf belonged exclusively to the Counts of Ziegenhain (and later the Landgraves of Hesse). Therefore there were separate courts, one for Kirtorf (inner court) and a second for the surrounding villages, in which the Schencken von Schweinsberg participated (outer court). In linguistic usage, this was forgotten about the court .

Early modern age

After the death of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse in 1567, his second-born son Ludwig IV received the Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg as an inheritance. This also included the Hessian shares in and in the outer court . After his death without male descendants in 1604, the Hessian shares in the outer court as part of the inheritance finally fell to Hessen-Darmstadt after decades of inheritance disputes between the two remaining Hessian lines - Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kassel .

Grand Duchy of Hesse

When the Grand Duchy of Hesse was formed at the beginning of the 19th century, the Supreme Court was part of the Alsfeld Regional Office, which was taken over from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt. This was dissolved between 1806 and 1815 and divided into the Office Alsfeld and the Office Romrod . Gleimenhain and Kirtorf came to the Romrod office, the other places to the Alsfeld office.

The external court continued to exist as a patrimonial court and condominium between the Hessian state and the barons von Schenck zu Schweinsberg as a court of first instance . In 1822 the barons of Schenck zu Schweinsberg renounced some of the rights to which they were entitled, in particular participation in administrative matters, so that the state district administrator of the district of Kirtorf could now act alone in these matters. The Barons von Schenck zu Schweinsberg were also optionally involved in the case law. This is currently described as follows: "The disputed jurisdiction [...] zu Homberg [is] jointly exercised on certain days of office by the [state] district judge and that of the Schenkische clerks". However, it was envisaged that if the Schenkisches Amtsverwalter did not appear, the state judge could also decide alone. The last remnants of this condominium jurisprudence did not perish until the March Revolution in 1848. In the 19th century, however, the term “ outside court” for this patrimonial court was rarely used.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the district of Arnshain.
  2. ↑ The Schmitthof is located in this area today ( Schmitthof, municipality of Kirtorf . In: LAGIS: Burgen, Schlösser, Herrenhäuser ; Status: October 22, 2018).
  3. ↑ In the district of Lehrbach.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wagner, p. 64.
  2. ^ Arnshain, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Bernsburg, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Dammeshof, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of March 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ Erbenhausen, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ Gleimenhain, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ Lehrbach, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ Ober-Gleen, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  9. ^ Reisdorf, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 22, 2018.
  10. ^ Retschenhäuser Hof, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of March 15, 2018.
  11. ^ Elections, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  12. ^ Wagner, p. 64.
  13. ^ L. Ewald: Contributions to regional studies . In: Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862, p. 52.
  14. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 413.
  15. ^ The repeal of judicial, police and administrative rights in the communal Euser Court of March 13, 1822. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 13 of April 10, 1822, p. 168.
  16. ^ Wagner, p. 64.
  17. ^ The repeal of judicial, police and administrative rights in the communal Euser Court of March 13, 1822. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 13 of April 10, 1822, p. 168.
  18. ^ Wagner, p. 64.