District court Neuwied

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The Neuwied District Court was a Prussian district court based in Neuwied .

prehistory

In the Congress of Vienna in 1816, extensive area swaps were agreed with Prussia . On May 31, 1815, Orange ceded the hereditary lands to Prussia. This and the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen were given to the Duchy of Nassau, most of the administrative district of Ehrenbreitstein and smaller other areas were given to Prussia.

In Prussia, the Ehrenbreitstein Justice Senate 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 Province . It was now in the second instance responsible for a large number of state and patrimonial courts. The Wetzlar City Court and seven state justice offices were subordinate to him . Furthermore, there were three princely Solms, two princely Neuwied, three princely Wied-Runkel and one princely Hatzfeld patrimonial courts of first instance in the judicial district. From 1828 there was also a patrimonial court of second instance with the Princely Solms-Braunfels government for the Solms offices. As such it was subordinate to the Berlin Higher Tribunal .

history

After the March Revolution , the Neuwied District Court was established in Neuwied in 1849. It was subordinate to the Ehrenbreitstein Justice Senate (together with the Wetzlar District Court and the Altenkirchen District Court ). Neuwied was also the seat of the Neuwied jury court , which was responsible for all three district courts.

The following court commissions were also subordinate to the Neuwied District Court:

dish Seat
Asbach court commission Asbach
Dierdorf Court Commission Dierdorf
Ehrenbreitstein Court Commission Ehrenbreitstein
Court commission Linz Linz

The Neuwied court commission and the court commission in Linz and Ehrenbreitstein had the function of a Rhine toll court .

Which entered into force on 1 October 1879 the German Judiciary Act of 27 January 1877, the existing county court Neuwied was canceled and the District Court of Neuwied and the district court Neuwied created.

Individual evidence

  1. State treaties of May 31, 1815 and August 23, 1816 VB 1815, p. 97 ff. VB 1816, p. 237
  2. ^ History of Prussian Administrative Law, 1886, ISBN 978-3-662-25716-6 , pp. 134-136, books.google.de
  3. Ordinance on the establishment of local courts of July 26, 1878 (PrGS 1878), pp. 275–283