Staden inheritance
The Ganerbschaft Staden was a condominium of noble families and the Burggrafschaft Friedberg .
Geographical location
The Ganerbschaft Staden was mainly in the area of today's city of Florstadt in the Wetterau in Hesse .
function
The Staden inheritance was organized like an office . The castle Staden was the administrative center of ganerbschaft. In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.
Components
In addition to Staden Castle, the villages were part of the inheritance
- Staden ,
- Ober-Florstadt ,
- Nieder-Florstadt and
- Stammheim .
history
Originally the area was in the hands of the von Isenburg family . In 1405 Johann II of Isenburg-Limburg sold the villages and the castle to several noble families. The resulting inheritance was at times distributed among up to 19 partners. Since most of them came from the environment of the Wetterau Counts' Association , where the Solms land law was widespread, this was also applied in the Ganerbschaft and its area, even after it had been dissolved. This legal situation was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .
From 1729 until the end of the Old Kingdom there were still three partners:
- the Burggrafschaft Friedberg (13/57),
- the Counts of Isenburg-Büdingen (12/57) and
- the Löw von Steinfurth (32/57).
With the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806, state sovereignty over all imperial knighthood possessions fell to the larger states surrounding them. This also included the proportional rights to condominiums, such as the Ganerbschaft Staden . It was now completely surrounded by the territory of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which it took possession of. However, the won territories were subject to the sovereignty of the Grand Duchy, but the sovereignty rights of the previous rulers had to be preserved. Of course, this disturbed the Grand Duchy in its sovereignty.
Since the Grand Duchy itself, after the settlement of the last Burgrave von Friedberg in 1817, fully held the rights formerly due to the Burgraviate, and was now involved in the inheritance itself, it successfully pushed for its dissolution. After more than 400 years, the inheritance ended in 1819 with a real division :
- The Grand Duchy received Stammheim, which it incorporated into its province of Upper Hesse and the Altenstadt office there .
- The Löw von Steinfurth received Ober- and Nieder-Florstadt. The lower jurisdiction remained with them and was initially exercised by the Steinfurt Patrimonial Court, but then transferred to the state until 1825.
- The princes of Isenburg got Staden, which they incorporated into the Büdingen district administration founded in 1822 for their "sovereign land" ( state rule ) .
literature
- 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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ewald, p. 56.
- ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, map.
- ↑ Ewald, p. 56.
- ↑ Art. 25 Federal Act on the Rhine .
- ↑ Ewald, p. 56.
- ^ Stammheim, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
- ↑ The merger of the two previous Löwischen patrimonial courts in one district court on November 13, 1822 . In: Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior and Justice (Ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1822 no. 36 , p. 520 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 36.6 MB ]).
- ↑ Ober-Florstadt, Wetteraukreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
- ↑ Staden, Wetterau district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.