Justice Senate Ehrenbreitstein

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The Justice Senate Ehrenbreitstein was a court in Kurtrier , the Duchy of Nassau and Prussia .

The Ehrenbreitstein Fortress was already the seat of a court in Kurtrier . With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 this fell to Nassau-Weilburg and 1806 in the Duchy of Nassau. Nassau took over the Justice Senate Ehrenbreitstein. It was initially a court of second instance in the Duchy of Nassau. The previous court with its seat in Weilburg , which had been the court of second instance in Nassau-Weilburg, was dissolved. In addition to the Ehrenbreitstein Justice Senate, there was also the Wiesbaden Court Court (and temporarily the Hachenburg government for the formerly Orange areas). The Justice Senate Ehrenbreitstein (also known as Hofgericht Ehrenbreitstein) was responsible in particular for the former Kurkölner and Kurtrierischen areas on the Rhine and Lahn. In addition, the Justice Senate Ehrenbreitstein was the court of first instance for the privileged places of jurisdiction (nobles). The superior court was the Hadamar Higher Appeal Court .

On November 11, 1806, the function of a court of second instance was withdrawn from the Ehrenbreitstein court on January 1, 1807.

Extensive area swaps between Nassau and Prussia were agreed at the Congress of Vienna . On May 31, 1815, the now Dutch royal house of Orange ceded its Nassau hereditary lands to Prussia. This and the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen were given by Prussia to the Duchy of Nassau, for which the largest part of the administrative district of Ehrenbreitstein and smaller other areas were ceded to Prussia.

In Prussia, the Justice Senate Ehrenbreitstein was appointed by cabinet order of May 4, 1820 as the Higher Court for the right bank of the Rhine region of the Koblenz administrative district in the Rhine provinces . Since French law had not been introduced to the right of the Rhine, in the former Nassau region, unlike the left of the Rhine and in the former Duchy of Berg, and this foreign law was not wanted to be extended to other areas, this organizational separation was considered necessary. The Justice Senate was now in the second instance responsible for a large number of state and patrimonial courts and subordinated to the Berlin Revisionshof .

In January 1821 the Justice Senate was relocated to Koblenz while retaining its name . There he formed a department of the Koblenz Regional Court under the direction of its President. On October 1, 1842, the Justice Senate was moved back to Ehrenbreitstein, where it was housed in the town hall (Coenenpalais) before the justice building was completed.

After the abolition of the patrimonial courts in 1849/1850, the Senate, as the Prussian appellate court, was responsible in the second instance for the district courts of Wetzlar , Altenkirchen and Neuwied .

With the German Courts Constitution Act of January 27, 1877, which came into force on October 1, 1879 , the Ehrenbreitstein Justice Senate was repealed. Courts of first instance were now the district courts, including the Ehrenbreitstein district court; the Neuwied Regional Court was formed as a second instance .

Judge

Directors

  • Joseph Wurzer 1820–1843, President of the Koblenz Regional Court
  • Schepers 1843-1846
  • Grundschöttel 1847–1851
  • von Schwartzkoppen 1851-1870 (from 1868 with the character of president)
  • Ludwig von Beughem 1870–1879 (with the character of President)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Brunner, History of the Trier rump state 1794–1802. Phil. Diss.
  2. ^ Johann Andreas Demian: Statistics of the Rhine Confederation States, Volume 2, 1812, p. 200, online
  3. ↑ Johann Josef Scotti: Collection of laws and ordinances, which in the former Wied-Neuwiedischen, Wied-Runkel'schen, Sage-Altenkirchen'schen, Sage-Hachenburg'schen, Solms-Braunfels'schen, Solms-Hohensolms-resp. Lich'schen, Nassau-Usingen'schen, Nassau-Weilburg'schen, Herzoglich Nassauischen and ..., Part 4, 1836, pp. 1652 ff., Online
  4. ↑ State treaties of May 31, 1815 and August 23, 1816 VB 1815, p. 97 ff. VB 1816, p. 237
  5. ^ Conrad Bornhak: History of Prussian Administrative Law, Volume 3, 1886, ISBN 9783662257166 , pp. 134-136, online
  6. ^ Cabinet order of May 2, 1820,
  7. ^ Cabinet orders of March 17, 1842 and April 23, 1842
  8. ^ Historical buildings in Ehrenbreitstein - Coenenpalais
  9. ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Koblenz, 1842, p. 350 ; Max Bär: The Authorities Constitution of the Rhine Province, 1919, reprint 1965, p. 420
  10. ↑ HA Fecht: The court constitutions of the German states, 1868, p. 138
  11. ↑ Ordinance on the establishment of local courts of July 26, 1878 (PrGS 1878), pp. 275, 282
  12. ↑ Max Bär: The Authorities Constitution of the Rhine Province, 1919, reprint 1965, p. 444