Court of Hofrieden

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The court Hofrieden (also: Landgericht Hofrieden ) in Lochau ( Vorarlberg , Austria ) is first mentioned in a document in 1354. It existed until 1806, when the previous court circles were abolished on the occasion of the takeover of rule in the area of ​​today's Vorarlberg by Bavaria in the course of the Napoleonic wars.

scope

The Hofrieden district court comprised the communities of Fluh , Hörbranz , Hohenweiler , Langen bei Bregenz , Lochau , Möggers (with Eichenberg ) and Rieden bei Bregenz with the pre-monastery and Kennelbach . The city ​​of Bregenz was subject to its own jurisdiction. The court border between Lochau and the city of Bregenz ran for a long time on the Eichholzbach (1490 to 1598), then this became the Tannenbach (formerly also called Triebenbach), which still forms the border between the municipality of Bregenz and Lochau, with the "Burgfriedenserweiterung" from Relocated August 28, 1598 ( confirmed by Emperor Rudolf II in 1602 ).

Judges and History

The court Hofrieden belonged to the younger line of the Counts of Montfort-Bregenz until September 5, 1523 , then to the Habsburgs . From 1523 the Mildenberg mansion (now a residential building in Bregenz) served as the official seat of the Hofrieden court. The court Hofrieden was represented at the first state day in Feldkirch in 1541. In 1553 a new court order was issued.

Due to the burdens from the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648), which had just ended , on August 26, 1654, the customs duties, the route inspection and the lower jurisdiction of the court Hofrieden were pledged to the city of Bregenz for 9,000 guilders (until 1672).

In 1679, Emperor Leopold assured the subjects of the Hofsteig court in writing that in future they could no longer be sold, exchanged, transferred, pledged or the like. This assurance followed in 1713 the lifting of serfdom in the court Hofrieden by Charles VI.

On April 8, 1695 an instruction was issued for the executioners of those four lordships in Vorarlberg .

On October 14, 1785, Joseph II ordered a court settlement. The previous seat of the court at the official seat of the elected bailiff was to be replaced and a separate court house was also to be created in the Hofrieden court. Landamann Wilhelm Rhomberg and the twelve jurors of the judicial communities agreed to build the court house in the middle of the Hofrieden court, in the village of Lochau. In 1788 the building site was negotiated and the house was built in 1789/1790 (see: Gasthaus zum Adler )

Due to the Peace of Pressburg , Vorarlberg and Tyrol and other areas of Austria had to be ceded to Bavaria. The court Hofrieden was repealed with the repeal of the state constitution in 1806, like 21 other regional courts and three city courts in Vorarlberg, and seven regional court districts were formed (then district courts).

When the lonely former residential and farm buildings of executioner Fidel Forster in Hintermoos in Lochau burned down in 1890, they were no longer rebuilt. Today the main pillar (pillar 1) of the Pfänderbahn , which is visible from afar, stands on this plot of land, alongside a few residential buildings .

Neighboring execution sites

In a document dated January 9, 1498, a high court in the area of ​​the Wellenau (parcel in front of the Klause in Lochau) is mentioned, on which the gallows of the Bregenz rule stood. Executions are said to have taken place here until the 19th century . On the site of this former execution site, the Villa Fairholme (also: Villa Wellenau ) was built by Sir Georg Fairholme in 1873 . This was canceled in 1976.

In his function as Vogt , Marx Parakeet von Ems had 50 farmers hung on oak trees on the old executioner's place on the Leiblach , who had claimed their rights in the context of a peasant uprising . The square there is still called "Henkeichen" today. 1526, the leaders of these farmers was Button by Leuba and Kunz host captured, tortured repeatedly and probably the old High Court of the city of Bregenz at Wellenau by the train executed. World icon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p. 32
  2. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Gemeindechronik Lochau , published by the community of Lochau 1986, p. 48 f, 68.
  3. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Gemeindechronik Lochau , published by the community of Lochau 1986, pp. 37, 39, 40.
  4. ↑ Vine sticks were an important export item from the Hofrieden court.
  5. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p. 67
  6. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 67, 70th
  7. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 68th
  8. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 79th
  9. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 97th
  10. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 38, the 202nd
  11. ↑ Erwin Bennat: commune Chronic Lochau , Edited by the municipality Lochau 1986, p 39 et seq.