Court and Appeal Court Wiesbaden

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The Court and Court of Appeal Wiesbaden was from 1822 to 1832 and from 1849 to 1866 in addition to the Court and Court of Appeal Dillenburg the second court of the second instance in the Duchy of Nassau , based in Wiesbaden . From 1832 to 1849 the court and appeal court of Usingen existed instead .

prehistory

In Usingen , the court of second instance was the Usingen court , which was responsible for the Principality of Nassau-Usingen . In 1744 Prince Karl von Nassau-Usingen moved his residence to Biebrich . The court also moved and now had its seat in what was then the Wiesbaden palace building. Now the Wiesbaden Court Court was the highest court in the principality.

With the formation of the Duchy of Nassau , three court courts were active in the Duchy. In addition to the Wiesbaden Court Court, there was also the Weilburg Court (the former Nassau-Weilburg ) and the Ehrenbreitstein Court Court , which was responsible in particular for the former Kurkölner and Kurtrierischen areas on the Rhine and Lahn. The Hachenburg government had the same function for the former Orange areas.

The reorganization of the court system by the administrative edict of 9 and 11 September 1815 - the two data result from the fact that the edict on 9 in the Biebrich residence of Duke Friedrich August and 11 in Weilburg by Prince Friedrich Wilhelm signed is - led to the establishment of a single court in Dillenburg. This was now the only court court in Nassau, the Wiesbaden court court ended its work on December 20, 1815.

Court and Appeal Court Wiesbaden

On April 1, 1822, another court of second instance was set up in Wiesbaden, now under the name Court and Appeal Court , which, in addition to the one that still existed in Dillenburg, was now responsible for the 14 offices located in the upper duchy.

The court and appeal court in Wiesbaden was responsible for civil matters of the privileged classes of the 1st and for all others of the 2nd instance as well as for divorce suits of the Catholic residents of the country.

The offices as well as the landlords in patrimonial courts were responsible for the jurisdiction in the first instance. If the minimum value in dispute of 50 guilders was exceeded, an appeal could be made to the court and appellate court against the judgments of these courts . For certain privileged classes, the court and appeal court was the court of first instance. This included the gentlemen, civil servants and others. The court and appeal court was also not competent for military jurisdiction.

In criminal cases, the distribution of tasks was prescribed as follows: The offices had the task of arresting the suspects and handing them over to the criminal court. The Dillenburg Criminal Court and the Wiesbaden Criminal Court passed . These acted as an investigative authority and then submitted their findings to the court and appeal court of Wiesbaden and Dillenburg for a decision.

The superior court for the Wiesbaden Court of Appeal and Court of Appeal was the Wiesbaden Court of Appeal as a third and final court.

The Nassau domain dispute shattered the relationship between government and state parliament in the 1820s . In order to secure a majority in the state parliament, the duke used the instrument of a pair push in 1831 . The liberals then boycotted the state parliament. The leader of the Liberals, Georg Herber , was charged with lese majesty and other crimes. Before that, the government moved the seat of the court from Wiesbaden to rural Usingen in 1832 in order to suppress demonstrations of sympathy. The court stayed there until the March Revolution and was moved back to the capital in 1849.

Well-known trials were in particular the high treason trials against the leaders of the Idstein Democrats' Congress and Julius Oppermann .

From 1831 the court also acted as a Rhine customs court of second instance.

After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau by Prussia in 1866, the jurisdiction of the Wiesbaden office was transferred to the Wiesbaden District Court in the first instance . The Court of Appeal and Court of Appeal Wiesbaden was converted into the royal Prussian district court Wiesbaden and was thus later on in the district court Wiesbaden .

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  1. ↑ Collection of the sovereign edicts and other ordinances: to which from July 1, 1816, the entire extent of the Duchy of Nassau was added to the force of law ..., 1817, p. 14