Court of Ober-Ohmen
The Ober-Ohmen court was an office of the Riedesel rulership .
function
In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . They could also have historical names such as “tithe” or “court”. The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff (or centgrave ) who was appointed by the rulers.
history
The Ober-Ohmen court was part of a fiefdom that the Lords of Riedesel had received from the Landgraves of Hesse . The feudal lordship and later sovereignty changed with the corresponding inheritance divisions and changes in the landgraviate:
- until 1567: Landgraviate of Hesse. After the death of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse , the landgraviate was divided between his four surviving sons from his legitimate first marriage. His second-born son Ludwig IV received
- from 1567 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg and sovereignty over the Riedesel fiefdom. When Ludwig IV died without a male heir, the Riedesel fiefdom was subject
- from 1604, after the legacy of Ludwig IV had been divided between his two nephews, the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt , Hesse-Darmstadt and ultimately remained there even after the decades-long dispute over the inheritance.
In 1803, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt consolidated its ancestral territories and those acquired with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , which lay north of the Main , in a newly created principality of Upper Hesse (from 1816: Province of Upper Hesse ). With the dissolution of the Old Reich and joining the Rhine Confederation in 1806, the Landgraviate received the status of a Grand Duchy but also state sovereignty over the entire Riedesel region. This state sovereignty did not go far here, because the sovereign rights of the Lords of Riedesel, now rulers , initially remained. Their rights were also protected by the federal act . He managed the state the court Upper Ohmen initially at least formally to integrate into their own structure: In the administrative reform of 1821 which was court-Ohmen Upper regard to the management part of the newly formed District District Gruenberg and concerning the jurisdiction of the district court Grünberg assigned. However, the state exercised sovereign rights here “on behalf and in the name of patrimonial rule”, which thus remained an indirect bearer of state sovereign rights. The Ober-Ohmen court ceased to exist.
Components
The places belonging to the Ober-Ohmen court were:
Law
In the area of the Ober-Ohmen court, the Riedesel'schen ordinances , which here superimposed common law , were considered particular law . Since there was never a legal standardization in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, this situation was only replaced on January 1, 1900 by the Civil Code , which was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .
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.
- Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ewald, p. 53f.
- ↑ Art. 24 Rhine Confederation Act .
- ↑ Art. 14 Federal Act .
- ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt of July 20, 1821, p. 403 (413).
- ↑ Ober-Ohmen, Vogelsbergkreis . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary; Status: April 17, 2018, Ewald, p. 54; Schmidt, S, 9, note 23.
- ^ Schmidt, p. 103.