Freiensteinau court

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The court Freiensteinau , later: Amt Freiensteinau , was successively an office of the rule Riedesel and in the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Historic court in Freiensteinau in Hesse, with the rectory in the background.

function

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.

history

Middle Ages and early modern times

The court was originally a fiefdom of the Abbot of Fulda . The efforts of the Riedesels for independence led in the years 1465–1471 to feuds between the Fulda bishopric and the Riedesel. In 1527 the Riedesels joined the Reformation and the conflicts with the still Roman Catholic Fulda escalated. In particular, Fulda's patronage rights were no longer recognized by the Riedesel. In 1605 Riedesel had the pastor appointed by Fulda arrested in Freiensteinau and deported. In 1606, Fulda’s attempt to obtain hereditary homage in Freiensteinau failed .

The state sovereignty in the Freiensteinau office was also disputed before the Reich Chamber of Commerce . This finally recognized the sovereign rights of the Riedesels. On August 30, 1684, the centuries-old dispute ended with a recess between Riedesel and Fulda. In this comparison, the places Hauswurz , Rebsdorf and Neustädel were removed from the Freiensteinau court and awarded to Fulda. In the remaining part of the court, the sovereignty of the Riedesel was recognized.

In the Freiensteinau office , Riedesel's ordinances have been a particular law since the 18th century . If the ordinances did not regulate a situation, subsidiary common law applied . The Riedesel'schen ordinances retained their validity during the affiliation to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century, until they were replaced on January 1, 1900 by the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Empire , even if at the end of the 19th century in were only used to a very limited extent in practice.

Modern times

The rule of Riedesel was largely annexed by the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the course of the establishment of the Rhine Confederation in 1806 . The Freiensteinau office also existed in the new state. The Grand Duchy incorporated the Amt Freiensteinau into its province of Upper Hesse . The ancestral rights of the Lords of Riedesel in the office were preserved. They retained their rights as patrimonial judges. The office was thus one of the so-called "sovereign lands" in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, as the Lords of Riedesel continued to exercise sovereign rights in administration and jurisdiction in their traditional territory .

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. From 1821 on, jurisdiction and administration were separated and all offices were dissolved at the lower level . District districts were created for the administrative tasks previously performed by the offices, and district courts for the first instance jurisdiction. In the area of ​​the Freiensteinau office , the tasks that the office had previously performed in the administration were transferred to the newly formed district of Herbstein , and the tasks that it had performed in the case law to the Altenschlirf district court .

Components

The Freiensteinau Office included:

The area of ​​the Office Freiensteinau was at the end of the Old Kingdom in an area that is now part of the districts of today's communities Freiensteinau and Grebenhain . The villages that were eliminated in 1684, on the other hand, were located in the boundaries of today's municipalities of Neuhof bei Fulda , Steinau an der Straße .

literature

  • Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners, Volume 4, 1839, pages 65-66, online
  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1825 the seat of the district administrator was relocated to Lauterbach and the district was renamed "District District Lauterbach" ( announcement concerning the relocation of the seat of the district administrator of the Herbstein district to Lauterbach and the renaming of this district administrator . In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt no July 5, 1825, p. 329).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landau, p. 65.
  2. ↑ Landau, p. 66.
  3. ↑ Landau, p. 66.
  4. ^ Schmidt, pp. 67, 103 and accompanying map.
  5. ↑ Art. 25 Federal Act on the Rhine .
  6. ↑ Altenschlirf, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; As of April 17, 2018.
  7. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, pp. 403ff.
  8. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, p. 414.
  9. ↑ Fleschenbach, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ Freiensteinau, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  11. ↑ Gunzenau, Vogelsberg district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ Landau, p. 66f.
  13. ↑ Holzmühl, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  14. ↑ Metzlos, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  15. ↑ Metzlos-Gehaag, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  16. ↑ Landau, p. 66f.
  17. ↑ Nieder-Moos, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  18. ↑ Ober-Moos, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  19. ↑ Radmühl I, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  20. ↑ The other half belonged to the Reichenbach office of the county, later to the Principality of Isenburg-Birstein , the Principality of Isenburg and subsequently to the Electorate of Hesse ( Radmühl II, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historisches Ortslexikon ; as of October 16, 2018).
  21. ↑ Landau, p. 66f.
  22. ^ Reichlos, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.
  23. ^ Salz, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; As of October 16, 2018.