Court Court Köslin

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The Hofgericht Koszalin was a Hofgericht that in the 18th and 19th centuries in which to Prussia belonging Pomerania was.

history

The court was created in 1720 by separating the area of ​​the so-called Pomeranian Hinterkreise from the district of the Stargard court and setting up its own court. The seat of the newly formed court was the city of Köslin .

The judicial district of the court of Köslin included the principality of Cammin , the Kolberg cathedral chapter , the Belgard district , the Neustettin district , the Rummelsburg district , the Schlawe district and the Stolp district . In 1804, the judicial district was expanded to include the Lauenburg-Bütow district , which had previously been assigned to West Prussia with regard to judicial matters ; the local Landvogteigericht Lauenburg was dissolved and its tasks were assigned to the court court Köslin.

The court in Köslin consisted of a president, a director and six court judges. The respective president of the court was also a member of the Köslin consistory formed in 1747 .

The court court in Köslin existed until 1808, when it was merged into the newly established higher regional court in Köslin as part of a reorganization of the judiciary in Prussia .

Files from the court in Köslin are now in the Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie (State Archives Stettin) and in the State Archives Greifswald .

President

Presidents were:

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Footnotes

  1. ^ A b Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part I: General introduction and description of the Prussian West Pomerania , Stettin 1779, S. XCI ( online ).
  2. Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State for the year 1804. Johann Friedrich Unger, Berlin, appendix p. 54. ( Online )
  3. Norbert BuskeThe old Greifswald consistory - 300 years of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Appendix A. The other Pomeranian consistories, brief historical overview . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series vol. 76, NG Elwert, Marburg 1990, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
  4. Heiko Wartenberg: Archive Guide to the History of Pomerania up to 1945. Verlag Oldenbourg, Oldenburg 2008, p. 69. ( Online )