Battenberg District Court

The Battenberg District Court was a court of first instance of ordinary jurisdiction in the Grand Duchy of Hesse with its seat in Battenberg, which existed from 1835 to 1867 .

The "Neuburg", former district court building

founding

The jurisdiction of the first instance has been exercised in the Grand Duchy of Hesse by regional courts since 1821 . In 1835, the judicial districts in the north-west of the province of Upper Hesse were redesigned. The Battenberg Regional Court was established on August 1, 1835. The superordinate instance of the regional court Battenberg was the court court Gießen .

district

The district of the Battenberg Regional Court was created by spinning off a number of communities from the Biedenkopf Regional Court district . These were:

The End

After the lost war of 1866 , the Grand Duchy had to cede parts of the territory to Prussia with the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 . This also included the Hessian hinterland (the " Biedenkopf district ") with the district of the Battenberg district court.

In June 1867, Prussia adapted the court organization to its own structure in the captured areas: the previous regional courts were repealed and replaced by local courts .

The courthouse

In 1732 the " Neuburg " was built in Battenberg by forest master Carl Johann Philipp Loener von Laurenburg . The castle served as the hunting lodge of Landgrave Ludwig VIII until 1768. After that, it was used as an administrative building and forestry office, and from 1835 it was the administrative building of the regional court.

Judge

The following district judges worked at the court:

1835–1841: Friedrich Moritz Eitel Ebel
1842–1841: Ludwig Hermann Stockhausen
1847–1850: Ernst Friedrich Dittmar
1850–1865: Philipp Friedrich Reitz
1865–1867: Wilhelm Ulrich
1867–1867: Ferdinand Eckstorm

literature

Otfried Keller: The court organization of the Marburg area in the 19th and 20th centuries . Marburg 1982. ISBN 978-3-9800490-5-4 , pp. 95-97.

Individual evidence

↑ Announcement concerning the constitution of a new regional court in Battenberg on July 3, 1835. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 36 of July 18, 1836, p. 340.
^ Art. 14 Peace Treaty between Prussia and Hesse of September 3, 1866 ; Details were regulated by a separate agreement between the contracting parties on the same day. In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 43 of October 2, 1866, pp. 408-410.
↑ § 3 Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand-Ducal Hessian territories with the exclusion of the Meisenheim district . 26 June 1867 . In: Law Collection for the Royal Prussian States No. 64 (1867), pp. 1094–1103.
↑ § 1 Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories with the exclusion of the Meisenheim district . 26 June 1867 . In: Law Collection for the Royal Prussian States No. 64 (1867), pp. 1094–1103.

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[1] Announcement concerning the constitution of a new regional court in Battenberg on July 3, 1835. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 36 of July 18, 1836, p. 340.

[2] Art. 14 Peace Treaty between Prussia and Hesse of September 3, 1866 ; Details were regulated by a separate agreement between the contracting parties on the same day. In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 43 of October 2, 1866, pp. 408-410.

[3] § 3 Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand-Ducal Hessian territories with the exclusion of the Meisenheim district . 26 June 1867 . In: Law Collection for the Royal Prussian States No. 64 (1867), pp. 1094–1103.

[4] § 1 Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories with the exclusion of the Meisenheim district . 26 June 1867 . In: Law Collection for the Royal Prussian States No. 64 (1867), pp. 1094–1103.