District Office Hachenburg

Hachenburg Castle, seat of the district office

The district office of Hachenburg (also district of Hachenburg ) was a district in the Duchy of Nassau with its seat in Hachenburg from 1849 to 1854 .

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration, the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance).

The Hachenburg district office was formed from the previous offices of Hachenburg , Marienberg and Selters and was responsible for administrative tasks. The jurisdiction in the lowest instance remained in the offices, which were now called justice offices. At the head of the district office stood a district administrator (that was the name of the district administrator ) with a district secretary as a representative. In Hachenburg, Ernst Heinrich Wolff was appointed district administrator. In addition to the appointed district administrator, an elected district council was set up for the first time.

However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

Official building

The district office was based in Hachenburg Castle.

literature

• Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945, 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 128–129, 142–144

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409)
2. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)