Amorbach District Court

Former Mainzische Amtskellerei; seat of the regional court from 1848 to 1879

The Amorbach Regional Court was an older Bavarian regional court that existed from 1848 to 1879 and was based in Amorbach in what is now the Miltenberg district . In the Kingdom of Bavaria , the regional courts were judicial and administrative authorities, which were replaced in administrative matters by the district offices in 1862 and in legal matters by the local courts in 1879 .

The district court Amorbach went from the prince. Leiningen 's lordship court , which like all other aristocratic courts in Bavaria was abolished during the revolution in 1848 . The municipalities of Amorbach, Beuchen , Boxbrunn , Hambrunn , Kirchzell , Ohrbach , Ottorfszell , Preunschen , Reichartshausen , Schneeberg , Watterbach , Weckbach and Weilbach belonged to the area of ​​the Amorbach Regional Court .

See also

• District of Miltenberg # regional courts
• Amorbach District Court

literature

• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Amorbach district court . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 796-798 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Volkert (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 522-523 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royal Highest Ordinance of April 2, 1879, concerning the determination of the court seats and the formation of the court districts ( GVBl. P. 371 )
2. ↑ Amorbach Regional Court. In: Royal. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Ackermann, Munich 1877, col. 1353-1356.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 13.3 ″  E