Herzogenaurach District Court

The Herzogenaurach Regional Court was an older Bavarian regional court that existed from 1812 to 1879 and was based in Herzogenaurach in the Rezat district (from 1838 Middle Franconia ).

location

The district court of Herzogenaurach included areas of today's district of Erlangen-Höchstadt and the independent city of Erlangen . At that time it bordered the Neustadt an der Aisch regional court in the west, the Markt Erlbach regional court in the southwest, the Cadolzburg regional court in the south, the Erlangen regional court in the east and the Höchstadt regional court and the Forchheim regional court in the north .

structure

In 1818 there were 50 places in the Herzogenaurach Regional Court (1 town, 9 parish villages , 2 church villages , 23 villages , 9 hamlets , 1 desert and 5 mills) with a total of 8,873 inhabitants, who were spread over 1980 families and lived in 1,405 properties. It originally consisted of 10 tax districts and 22 municipalities (1 municipal and 21 rural municipalities ). In 1829 it was 5 ¹ ⁄ ₂ miles in size and had 9,600 residents with a high proportion of Jewish population.

Tax districts

In 1811 10 tax districts were formed in the regional court , which were administered by the Erlangen Rent Office:

Büchenbach with Alterlangen , Häusling , Kosbach , Neumühle and Steudach Frauenaurach with Hüttendorf , Kriegenbrunn , Neuses and Schallershof Hammerbach with Beutelsdorf , Mittelmembach , Nankendorf , Obermembach , Reinersdorf , Reuth and Welkenbach Hannberg with Dannberg , Großdechsendorf , Großenseebach , Heßdorf , Klebheim , Kleindechsendorf , Neuenbürg , Niederlindach , Röhrach and Untermembach Hemhofen with Zeckern

Herzogenaurach with Eichelmühle , Haundorf , Heinrichsmühle , Lohhof and Niederndorf Neuhaus with Heppstädt Möhrendorf with Kleinseebach , Kleinseebacher Mühle and Oberndorf Röttenbach with Hausen , Oberheroldsbach , Reihendorf and Weihermühle Thurn with a bucket mill

Rural communities

In 1811 the rural communities emerged. With the second community edict (1818), the rural communities received more powers. At the same time, some of the previously existing communities were split up so that there were 1 municipal and 21 rural communities:

Büchenbach Frauenaurach with Neuses and Schallershof Großdechsendorf with Kleindechsendorf Großenseebach Hammerbach with Nankendorf and Wölkenbach Hannberg with Dannberg, Klebheim, Niederlindach and Röhrach Haundorf with Beutelsdorf Hausen with Oberheroldsbach Hemhofen with Zeckern Heppstädt Herzogenaurach

Heßdorf with Fallhütte, Mittelmembach, Obermembach and Untermembach Hut village Kleinseebach with Kleinseebacher mill Kosbach with Alterlangen, Häsuling and Stäudach Kriegenbrunn Möhrendorf with Oberndorf (Möhrendorf) | Oberndorf Neuhaus Niederndorf with Lohhof Reinersdorf with Neuenbürg Röttenbach with Weihermühle and Reihendorf Thurn with a bucket mill

Further development

The scope of the district court changed considerably in the following years.

Added are:

• October 22, 1814 by the Cadolzburg district court : Corridor parts south of the Aurach of the communities of Herzogenaurach and Niederndorf
• February 12, 1827 from the Neustadt an der Aisch regional court : the communities of Biengarten, Boxbrunn, Hesselberg, Kairlindach, Oberlindach, Rezelsdorf, Sauerheim, Weisendorf
• September 16, 1832 by the Cadolzburg district court : the municipality of Burgstall
• 0April 1, 1836 from the district court of Markt Erlbach : the communities Falkendorf, Münchaurach, Neundorf, Oberreichenbach, Puschendorf, Unterreichenbach and Zweifelsheim.

The following were submitted:

• January 20, 1813 to the district court Neustadt an der Aisch: Weisendorf
• 0April 3, 1819 to the Forchheim Regional Court : Oberheroldsbach
• July 12, 1827 to the Erlangen Regional Court : Frauenaurach, Hüttendorf, Kleinseebach, Kriegenbrunn and Möhrendorf
• 0October 1, 1857 to the Forchheim district court: the municipalities of Hausen and Thurn

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act on October 1, 1879, a district court was established in Herzogenaurach, the district of which was formed from the district of the Herzogenaurach Regional Court, which was also repealed.

See also

• District Erlangen-Höchstadt # Regional Courts
• District of Höchstadt an der Aisch

literature

• Address manual for the Rezat district of the Kingdom of Baiern . Johann Baptist Reindl, Bamberg 1814, p. 25 ( digitized version ).
• Alphabetical index of all the localities contained in the Rezatkreise according to its constitution by the newest organization: with indication of a. the tax districts, b. Judicial Districts, c. Rent offices in which they are located, then several other statistical notes . Ansbach 1818, p. 129 ( digitized version ).
• Address and statistical handbook for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 49-50 ( digitized version ).
• Hanns Hubert Hofmann : Höchstadt-Herzogenaurach (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part Franconia . I, 1). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1951, DNB  452071143 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Friedrich Hohn: The Retzatkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria described geographically, statistically and historically . Riegel and Wießner, Nuremberg 1829, p. 177-182 ( digitized version ).
• Circle of Bavarian Scholars (Ed.): Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia (=  Bavaria. Regional and Folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Volume 3 ). Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1865, DNB  56034290X , p. 710-713 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Herzogenaurach Regional Court . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 588-589 ( 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. 484-485 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Alphabetical list of all the localities contained in the Rezatkreise , p. 21 of the second part.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Address and statistical manual for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern , p. 49f.
3. ↑ KF Hohn, p. 177.
4. ↑ HH Hofmann, pp. 139f.