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The Grafschaft Schlitz was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and then belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

geography

location

The county was west of Fulda around the town of Schlitz , today Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse .

Components

The town of Schlitz and 20 other villages and farms belonged to the county of Schlitz:

history

In the old kingdom

The Lords of Schlitz have been documented since 1116. They named themselves after the castle from which the city of Schlitz emerged and were fiefs of the Fulda monastery . In the course of time they established a rule in the area around Schlitz. Since 1408 they called themselves Schlitz von Görtz .

The lords of Schlitz succeeded in increasingly breaking away from their feudal rule and becoming independent. Evangelical preaching was first held in Schlitz in 1546 . In 1563 the gentlemen von Schlitz received the right to occupy the pastoral positions in their rule. They successfully maintained their own Protestant regional church during the Counter Reformation and the Thirty Years' War . This hit the rule hard: Looting, famine and plague in 1635 caused the rule's population to shrink to a third. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 confirmed the independence of the rule from the abbey of Fulda. In 1677 the gentlemen von Schlitz were raised to the status of imperial barons and in 1726 to imperial counts . The country was also affected by the wars of the 18th century, such as the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).

In the county of Schlitz a special particular law applied .

Even in the time when the Grafschaft Schlitz belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the law continued to apply, which did not replace the civil code that was uniformly valid throughout the German Empire on January 1, 1900 .

In Hessen

With the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806, state sovereignty over the Grafschaft Schlitz fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. This incorporated the area into the Principality of Upper Hesse (from 1816: "Province of Upper Hesse"). The Schlitz Office was formed from the County of Schlitz . All this happened with the restriction that the count continued to exercise sovereign rights in administration and jurisdiction .

From 1820 there were administrative reforms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1821 justice and administration were separated at the lower level and all offices were dissolved. For the previously perceived by the offices administrative tasks were district districts created for the first-instance jurisdiction district courts. In the case of the Schlitz office, the solution was simple: it was dissolved, its administrative tasks were transferred to the newly formed Schlitz district , and its jurisdiction tasks were transferred to the newly installed Schlitz district court , whose districts were congruent with those of the dissolved office.

On June 1, 1838, the count renounced the administrative and judicial sovereignty he was entitled to in the county, with a few exceptions in the area of ​​forest and hunting in his own forests. The court also continued to operate as the “Grand Ducal Hessian Countess Görtzisches Landgericht”.

As a result of the administrative reform in the course of the March Revolution , the county belonged to the Alsfeld administrative district from 1848 to 1852 and then to the newly founded Lauterbach district .

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  1. ↑ The location could not be identified. It is probably a courtyard.
  2. ↑ The District Court slot was in the reform of Justice 1879 in slot District Court unnamed and dissolved in 1943 ( slot Vogelsberg . In: LAGIS : Historical gazetteer ; Stand: October 16, 2018).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmidt, p. 25, note 80 and p. 104, note 19 as well as the enclosed map; Johann Andreas Demian: Description or Statistics and Topography of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Volume 2. LeRoux, Mainz undated, p. 361.
  2. ↑ a b History of the Reichsgrafschaft Schlitz. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 106, as well as the enclosed map.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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. 415.
  7. ^ Announcement of the civil rights of Count von Schlitz, called von Görtz, with regard to justice, police and supervision in church and school matters to the state on April 6, 1838 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 20 of April 28, 1838, pp. 259f.