District Office Limburg

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The district office of Limburg (also Limburg district ) was a district in the Duchy of Nassau with its seat in Limburg 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 Limburg district office was formed from the previous offices of Limburg , Diez and Runkel 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 Limburg, Ludolph von Langen was appointed district administrator. Hermann Becker succeeded him as district administrator from 1853 to 1854. In addition to the appointed district administrator, an elected district council was set up for the first time.

The question of the district office was discussed controversially in the meeting of the estates . The Limburg MP (and pastor in Diez ) Ludwig Creutz vehemently advocated Diez as the seat. With 22 of 33 votes, however, the parliament decided in favor of Limburg.

For the first time, local people's representatives, the district councils, were set up. In July 1949 the following people were elected to the district council for the district office of Limburg:

  1. Joseph Burkhard, Limburg
  2. Carl Lorenz, Diez
  3. Georg Ebel, Munster
  4. Friedrich Maier, Geilnau
  5. Jacob Eppstein, Villmar
  6. Carl Anton Mohr, Niederneisen
  7. Johann Knapp, Dauborn
  8. Peter Stilger, Breaking Down
  9. Heinrich Kuhn, Schupbach

The electoral term was two years. After the second elections in 1853, the district council formed:

  1. Philipp Balzer, Diez
  2. Martin Mohr, Limburg
  3. Adolph Bingel, Holzappel
  4. Wilhelm Müller, Runkel
  5. Gräf, Mayor of Obertiefenbach
  6. Friedrich Ohl, Oberneisen
  7. Heil, Mayor zu Weyer
  8. Peter Stilger, Breaking Down
  9. Johann Knapp, Dauborn

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

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Hessen-Nassau (including predecessor states) (= Walther Hubatsch (Hrsg.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Series A: Prussia. Volume 11). Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 128-129, 142-144.
  • Norbert Zabel: Spatial authority organization in the Duchy of Nassau. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-922244-39-4 , pp. 138-139 (also dissertation University of Frankfurt 1980).

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. ^ Franz-Karl Nieder: The Ducal Nassau Office of Limburg 1802 to 1866, pp. 12-13, online
  3. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)