Bärnstein District Court
The Bärnstein district court (also known as the nursing court ) was a Bavarian high and low court in Bärnstein for the Grafenauer Land area from 1438 to 1804 . The seat was Bärnstein Castle until 1799 .
geography
The district court Bärnstein 1802 had an area of 9½ square miles (525 km²) with 7384 inhabitants and 1369 "Herdstätten". In addition to the town of Grafenau and the Schönau market, the regional court included 7 court brands and noble seats, 3 parishes and schools, 49 villages and 82 hamlets and wastelands.
history
Count Etzel I von Ortenburg sold Bärnstein to Duke Heinrich von Niederbayern in 1438 . The Wittelsbach duke made Bärnstein the seat of a caretaker (also known as the district court) who, as captain in front of the forest, was also the head of the regional military organization and had an armory . During the following centuries the Grafenauer Land was administered by the Bärnstein Regional Court .
Franz von der Trenck occupied Bärnstein during the War of the Austrian Succession . When one of his captains was shot in an ambush on July 16, 1742, he had the castle set on fire and the ruins including the castle chapel blown up. A new nursing court building was built at another location , which burned down on July 6, 1829. As early as 1799, the seat of the Bärnstein Regional Court was relocated to Grafenau. In 1804 the regional court was renamed Grafenau regional court .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Churfürstlich-Pfalzbaierischer Hof- und Staatskalender: to the year 1802 , Munich, 1802, p. 141. ( digitized version )
- ↑ Franziska Jungmann-Stadler: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria. Row I / Grafenau: District Court Bärnstein, Nursing Courts Diessenstein and Hals. Edited by the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1992.