Reign of Gedern

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The Gedern rulership was an area of rulership inherited from the Middle Ages , which opened up in the Grand Duchy of Hesse at the beginning of the 19th century .

history

middle Ages

The lords of Ortenberg, who were descended from the lords of Büdingen , built a castle in Gedern .

In 1247 Eberhard I. Reiz von Breuberg and Albrecht I von Trimberg Gedern inherited after the death of the Wetterau governor Gerlach II von Büdingen . They were his sons-in-law. Eberhard I. von Breuberg was followed by his son Gerlach and his son Eberhard III. , both bailiffs of the Wetterau.

Eberhard III. died in 1323 without a son, and the rule of Gedern subsequently passed to Konrad V von Trimberg and Gottfried V von Eppstein . When the Trimbergers died out in the male line in 1376/84, Gedern fell entirely to Eppstein. On the occasion of the Eppstein inheritance in 1433 Gedern came to the Eppstein-Königstein line.

Eberhard IV von Eppstein-Königstein , remained without male descendants. Eberhard's sister Anna married Count Botho III. von Stolberg (1467–1538). Her son Ludwig zu Stolberg , grew up in 1514 with Eberhard and his wife Katharina von Weinsberg and became Eberhard's heir.

Stolberg

With the death of Eberhard in 1535, the rule of Gedern and the Eberhard County of Königstein fell to the Stolberg Counts. Ludwig took over the new properties and formed the short-lived county of Stolberg-Königstein from them. After the extinction in the male line, Gedern fell to Stolberg-Wernigerode .

Stolberg-Gedern is one of the areas in which the Solms land law was only partially accepted under customary law . This applied in particular to the areas of guardianship law , inheritance and matrimonial property law . Moreover, the applied Common Law . It was not until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was suspended .

In 1677 the Stolberg-Gedern house was created through the division of the Stolberg-Wernigerode estate. When the male line of the Princes zu Stolberg-Gedern died out in 1804, the main line of Stolberg-Wernigerode inherited the Gedern rule. It was also referred to as the Gedern Office in the family rulership . The office was responsible for administration and jurisdiction in the area.

Hesse

With the accession to the Rhine Confederation , the Grand Duchy of Hesse gained state sovereignty, but the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode continued to exercise considerable parts of the sovereign rights as patrimonial judges .

In the course of the administrative reform of 1821, jurisdiction and administration were separated at the office level in the Grand Duchy and the tasks of the traditional offices were reorganized in district districts (responsible for administration) and district courts (responsible for jurisdiction). The Office Gedern was doing in terms of managing the district District Nidda "the subject, unable magnificent Polizeirecht Same", and with respect to the jurisdiction of the district court Ortenberg allocated to the rights of the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode remained preserved in judicial matters.

scope

The Gedern lordship included:

The territory of the Gedern rule extended over areas that are today in the districts of the communities Gedern, Glauburg , Ortenberg , Ranstadt and Grebenhain .

literature

  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmidt, p. 108, as well as the enclosed map.
  2. ↑ Art. 24 Rhine Confederation Act .
  3. ↑ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 33 of July 20, 1821, pp. 411f.
  4. ^ Schmidt, p. 25, note 81.