Court of Bödefeld

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In the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, the Bödefeld court was both an organ of administration of justice and an administrative unit. It was created in 1342 at the instigation of the Count of Arnsberg. With the sale of his county in 1368 it came to the elector of Cologne as rulers of the Duchy of Westphalia and was integrated into the organization of offices there. In 1803 it fell to the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt in connection with the secularization together with the Duchy. This dissolved it in 1807 and incorporated it into the office of Fredeburg.

Emergence

In 1342 the Bödefeld court was formed when the Count of Arnsberg raised the village of Bödefeld to freedom and at the same time appointed the judge there as his representative in the area. Over time, he was able to extend his jurisdiction over the parish of Bödefeld.

history

Count Gottfried IV. Had sold the county of Arnsberg to the Electorate of Cologne in 1368 . It became part of the Duchy of Westphalia . The existing free courts were replaced by the electoral courts of the sovereign. For the first time in 1450 an electoral judge was named to Bödefeld . The Duchy of Westphalia was secularized as a result of the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss in 1803 and taken over by Hessen-Darmstadt . During the reform of the offices on September 22nd, 1807, the Bödefeld court was assigned to the Fredeburg office .

Judicial district

The Bödefeld court consisted of the villages of the Bödefeld parish (Freiheit Bödefeld, Altenfeld , Westernbödefeld , Brabecke and Valme ) with the exception of Gellinghausen and Osterwald . These localities belonged to the court of the Upper Office Fredeburg in Dorlar . In the east the court bordered the Medebach Office , in the south on the Oberkirchen Patrimonial Court , in the west on the Fredeburg Office , in the northwest on the Remblinghausen court and in the north on the Brilon Office .

Responsibilities

In addition to the case law, the court also had administrative tasks to perform. For example, taxes (tithe) were also collected by the court. The magistrate's court was responsible for the lower jurisdiction (disputes between citizens without blood flowing).

composition

Around the year 1700 the electoral court existed

  • the electoral judge (later in personal union with Medebach),
  • two elected magistrates,
  • a secretary, and that
  • Broken Master.

Judges, brokers and secretaries had legal training and were paid by the sovereign.

Legal proceedings

The court met in Lüken-Haus in Bödefeld. The electoral judge led the hearing. Subsequently, judges and magistrates ruled on the guilt of the accused. The broker set the sentence. The secretary prepared the necessary documents and protocols. From around 1700 the electoral judge in Medebach was also a judge in Bödefeld. In the absence of the electoral judge, the judicial officers accepted complaints.

Electoral judges of Bödefeld

  • 1450 Hermann von der Elpe, judge of the Archbishop of Cologne zu Bodenvelde
  • 1510 Johan Raidt, judge in the freyheyt zu Bogenvelde and myns gh van Collen elector
  • 1541 Johann VI von Grafschaft
  • 1584 Frantz Scharpe
  • 1593 Eberhard Scharpe, judge from Bödefelder
  • 1641 Jost Scharffen, judge in Bodefeld, † February 5, 1658
  • 1657 Heinrich Knipschild, † January 18, 1674
  • 1692 Rembert Knipschild, † April 21, 1702
  • 1702 Johann Rudolf Weise, judge of Bödefeld and Hallenberg
  • 1738 Franz Michael Honcamp
  • 1790 J. (F.) Gertman
  • 1802 Franz Friedrich Bernhard Höynck, born September 7, 1764, † June 8, 1845, judge in Winterberg, Bödefeld and Hallenberg, later from 1807 judicial officer in Arnsberg

literature

  • Albert Hömberg: Ecclesiastical and secular regional organization of southern Westphalia, Münster 1965.
  • Marx, Heinrich, My dream home - Chronicle of the parish of Bödefeld, Bödefeld 1958
  • Marx, Heinrich, Heimatblätter for the parish of Bödefeld, 1963–1971
  • Elisabeth Schumacher: The Cologne Westphalia in the Age of Enlightenment with special consideration of the reforms of the last Elector of Cologne, Max Franz von Österreich, Olpe 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hömberg, regional organization p. 17
  2. ↑ Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802-1816, Olpe 1966, p. 171.
  3. ↑ Schumacher p. 277
  4. ↑ Wolf, Manfred, Sources for the history of Stift und Freiheit Meschede, p. 134, certificate no.284, Münster 1981
  5. ^ Seibertz, Johann Suibert, document book on the regional and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia, fourth volume, page 221, document 1010, Arnsberg 1854
  6. ↑ Seibertz, Johann Suibert, State and Legal History of the Duchy of Westphalia, First Volume, Second Section, page 160, Arnsberg 1855
  7. ↑ Bruns, Alfred, Diary of the Truchsessische Wirren in the Duchy of Westphalia 1583/84, page 249, Meschede 1987, ( ISBN 3-923448-43-0 )
  8. ^ Hömberg, Albert, settlement history of the upper Sauerland, p. 40, Münster 1938
  9. ↑ mortality Times - The Thirty Years War in the Duchy of Westphalia, page 372, Munster 2000, ( ISSN  0946-0594 )
  10. ↑ Engel, August u. Bruns, Alfred, History of the City of Eversberg, page 258, Meschede 1992, ( ISBN 3-925680-12-8 )
  11. ↑ Seibertz. Johann Suibert, History of the noble lords of Grafschaft zu Norderna and their possessions in the bailiwicks of Grafschaft and Brunscappell in the journal for patriotic history and antiquity, second volume, page 163, Münster 1851
  12. ↑ Disputes between the Hofrat in Bonn and Landdrost and councilors in Westphalia about the legal process in appellation matters. Alleged attempt by the duchy to separate from the archbishopric according to the constitution and jurisdiction ( http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=1&id=091&tektId=7&klassId=48&expandId=47&bestexpandId=5&suche=1&verzId = 849 )
  13. ↑ Bruns, Alfred, Das Haupt- und Lagerbuch der Freiheit Bödefeld in: Schmallenberger Sauerland Almanach, p. 123, 1994 ( ISBN 3-930271-05-2 )
  14. ^ Bruns, Alfred, Juden im Herzogtum Westfalen, p. 285, 1994 ( ISBN 3-930271-13-3 )
  15. ↑ Bruns, Alfred, Juden im Herzogtum Westfalen, p. 337, 1994 ( ISBN 3-930271-13-3 )
  16. ↑ Gödde, Norbert, Die Richter zu Schliprüthen in: Serkenrode and the parish Schliprüthen in the Kurkölnischen Sauerland 1991, p. 81