Ramholz Justice Office

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The electoral Count Degenfeld-Schonburgsche Justice Office Ramholz was from 1806 to 1850 a patrimonial court of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt and the Electorate of Hesse .

history

Ramholz reign

The Altengronau court did not come fully into the possession of the County of Hanau as part of the territorialization , as the von Hutten and von Thüngen families and the Landgraves of Hesse had extensive rights there. As part of the further subdivisions, the places Hinkelhof , Ramholz and Vollmerz came to the von Hutten as Hanau fiefs . In the second half of the 17th century, the von Hutten family succeeded in enforcing the imperial immediacy of the Ramholz rule. In 1642 Karl von Landas acquired the rule, in 1698 the von Degenfeld became owners.

Patrimonial court

With the formation of the Rhine Confederation in 1806, the rulership of Ramholz was mediatized . The owner, Friedrich Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg , decided to cede his sovereign rights to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel, formally voluntarily, but in compliance with the power situation. The sovereign rights were administered by the Altengronau office. But he was still the landlord and court lord there. This remained so when the Justice Office fell to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in 1810 and to the Electorate of Hesse after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The Ramholz Justice Office was the court of first instance and as such in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was subordinate to the Court Court of Hanau (see court organization in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ) and in the Electorate of Hesse to the Higher Court for the Province of Hanau .

In 1821, jurisdiction was separated from administration in the Electorate of Hesse . The administrative tasks were taken over by the district of Schlüchtern and the court tasks by the electoral count Degenfeld-Schonburgsche Justice Office Ramholz. This reform did not change anything for the patrimonial courts.

The Court and State Handbook 1835 gives the following data for the Ramholz Justice Office:

  • Ramholz, 26 houses, 203 inhabitants
  • Hinkelhof, 22 houses, 146 inhabitants
  • Vollmerz, 68 houses, 451 inhabitants

The March Revolution of 1848 led to the abolition of patrimonial jurisdiction. On January 1, 1850, the patrimonial judicial district of Ramholz with the places Hinkelhof, Ramholz and Vollmerz came to the Schlüchtern justice office .

literature

  • Peter Adolf Winkopp: Attempt of a topographical-statistical description of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, 1812, p. 307 ff., Digitized .
  • Electoral Hessian Court and State Manual: 1835, p. 173, digitized .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordinance of December 20, 1849, regarding the implementation of the law of November 13th. J., about the abolition of the jurisdiction exercised by the landlords and landlords, etc., as well as the change in some lower court districts in the higher court districts of Hanau. ( Kurhess. GS p. 143 )