Grünenbach Court
The court of Grünenbach - formerly Thalendorf or Thalerdorf or Dallendorf - was a lower court in the rulership of Bregenz in front of Austria .
history
The court was in the beginning in Thalendorf, since the castle of the Bregenz bailiffs was there on the Schloßbühl .
The Thalendorf court was sold to Austria in 1523 . With the sale, the court custom that was common at Vorarlberg courts was applied.
The judicial district included the present-day communities of Grünenbach without Ebratshofen , Röthenbach , Gestratz and Maierhöfen , as well as the former community of Harbatshofen and a small part of the parish of Stiefenhofen . In the village of Stiefenhofen, a corner of the church tower and part of the inn belonged to the Grünenbach court. The border ran through the room of the economy. The aristocratic lords of von Laubenberg and von Horben were located within the judicial district . The Laubenberg rule had high and low jurisdiction from 1559 and was exempt from foreign courts.
The court crew consisted of a court Ammann, the jurors, a court clerk, a court servant, a Überreiter (forest ranger), a Heumesser, a Roßmängelschauer and wine estimator. The election of the court crew took place in public. Following the election, the oath of service was taken together with bakers and landlords. The election took place de jure every three years, but was often overdone.
Court days were three times a year; the carnival court two weeks before Carnival, the May-court in May and the autumn court in the fall. After the Thirty Years' War, there were court days only twice a year, in July and October. Judgment days were announced two weeks in advance in a church service and by public notice. The plaintiff and the defendant were summoned personally by the court servant and were each able to choose an advocate from the jury.
The property lawyers in the Grünenbach court were mostly the Mehrerau monastery , the Isny monastery , the Isny hospital, the lords of Eberz-Isny, the Ellhofen rulership and the Horben-Ringenberg rulership.
From 1781 at the latest, the seat of the court was the Taferne in Grünenbach. On September 9, 1785, the court was converted into a judicial authority and on November 16, 1806, when it became part of Bavaria, it became part of the Kgl. Bavarian district court Weiler over.
literature
- Ludwig Scheller: The court of Grünenbach. In: Contributions to the local history of the community Grünenbach. 1959.
- Herbert Mader: The Grünenbach court. In: Grünenbacher Chronik from the beginnings to the present. 2000.
- Günter Fichter: When the Westallgäu came to Bavaria - reorientation and a new beginning . In: Yearbook of the Lindau District 2005 .