District court Homberg (Efze)

The district court Homberg (until 1867 district court Homberg ) was a court of ordinary jurisdiction until 1968 with its seat in Homberg (Efze) .

history

From the last quarter of the 13th century, the jurisdiction of the subordinate Landgraviate Hesse and later of Hesse-Kassel in the area around Homberg the Office Homberg and was the local magistrate perceived.

The reorganization of the judiciary in the Kingdom of Westphalia led to the separation of jurisdiction and administration. The canton of Homberg was now responsible for administration, the Homberg Peace Court for jurisdiction. The peace court was subordinate to the district court of Hersfeld that was responsible for the district of Hersfeld .

With the fall of the Kingdom of Westphalia after the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the separation of jurisdiction and administration was reversed and the Electorate of Hesse reintroduced the Office of Homberg in 1814.

With an edict of June 29, 1821, administration and justice were separated in Kurhessen. Now judicial offices were responsible for the first instance jurisdiction, the administration was taken over by the districts . In Homburg there was a peculiarity that it was not the Homberg justice office, but the Homberg district court , to which the Borken and Raboldshausen assistant offices were subordinate. In 1831 the district court of Homberg was dissolved and divided into the justice offices of Homberg, Borken and Raboldshausen .

The Homberg Justice Office was responsible for the former courts in the back court (northeast of Homberg around the Mosenberg , with the Grebenstuhl in Mosheim ), Vernegau court , court on the Efze and court on the Schwalm and part of the court on the Walde . It included 30 villages and 11 farms.

Places in the Justice Office Homberg
Back court	Court on the Efze	Vernegau court	Court in the forest	Dish on the Schwalm
Mörshausen	Falkenberg	Lützelwig	Allmuthshausen	Uttershausen
Dickershausen	lever	Sondheim	Appenfeld	Wobble
Sipperhausen	Rohrhausen	Wernswig	Niederbeisheim	Zennern
Hombergshausen	Mardorf		Basfelder Hof
Mosheim	mountains		Hergetsfeld
	Cassdorf		Holzhausen
	Mulhouse		Hülsa
	Lembach		Leuderode
	Lendorf		Reddingshausen
			Relbehausen
			Remsfeld
			Rodemann
			Rückersfeld
			Schellbach
			Steindorf
			Waßmuthshausen
			Welferode
			St. Georg Monastery (Homberg)

In June 1867 a royal decree was issued that reorganized the court system in the former Duchy of Nassau and the parts of the area that had previously belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The previous judicial authorities were to be repealed and replaced by local courts in the first, district courts in the second and an appeal court in the third instance. In the course of this, on September 1, 1867, the previous regional court was renamed the Homberg District Court. The court district comprised the previous Homberg Justice Office, plus the Raboldshausen Justice Office: Ellingshausen, Grebenhagen, Hergetsfeld, Nieder-Appenfeld, Nieder-Hülsa, Ober-Appenfeld, Ober-Hülsa, Völkershain with Hof Baßfeld and Wallenstein with castle.

With the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act, the district court continued to exist under his name. During the final phase of World War II, the court was temporarily closed, but was re-established by the American occupation forces. In 2006 the court was closed.

building

The court initially used the premises of the Homberg office in the old office building at Homberger Obertor. This house from 1783 was abandoned in 1939 in order to build a new building on the same site. The court moved to the neighboring court prison during construction. Due to the war, the new building was initially not built after it was demolished in 1939. It was not until 1952 that the court was able to move into its new premises at Obertorstrasse 9.

After the court was dissolved in 2006, the city of Homberg announced its wish to continue using the old district court. However, use was made more difficult by the fact that part of the listed city wall is located on the property and the cost of renovating this wall exceeds the value of the property. Today the building is used as a medical center.

Judge

The following judges worked at the court:

• District Judge Karl Wilkens (1823–1831)
• Justice officer Philpp Wilhelm Georg Karl Pfeiffer (1831–1840)
• Justice officer Heinrich Emil Groß (1841–1848)
• Justice officer Wilhelm Möller (1849–1850)
• Justice officer Karl Siegmund Fulda (1850–1855)
• Justice officer Karl Bernhard (1855–1867)
• District judge Julius Carl Hoffmann (1867–1875)
• Magistrate Maximilian Theobald (1867–1878) (from 1875: Chief Magistrate)
• District judge Walther (1875–1885) (from 1877: chief magistrate)
• District Judge Burchardi (1878–1895) (from 1888: District Court Councilor)
• District judge Fondy (1885-1891)
• District Judge Diels (1891–1899)
• Magistrate Vial (1895-1900)
• Local judge Auth (1899–1911) (from 1906: Local Court Councilor)
• District Judge Ferdinand Pitel (1900–1927) (later: District Court Councilor)
• District judge Friedrich Henckel (1911–1931)
• District Court Judge Alexander Opper (1927–1930)
• District Court Judge Friedrich Zusatz (1931–1947)
• District Court Judge Karl Nuhn (1931–1942)
• District Court Judge Dr. Otto Heipertz (1945–1949)
• District Court Judge Eduard Mengel (1947)
• District Judge Dr. Otto von Sethe (1947)
• District Court Judge Dr. Rudolf Pohl (1948–1970) (later: chief magistrate)
• District Court Judge Dr. Hermann Bienert (1948)
• District Court Judge Wilhelm Brundig (1949–1976) (later: Director of the District Court)
• District Court Counselor Erhard Spanknebel (1976-2004) (later: Director of the District Court)
• District Court Counselor Christoph Müller (1976-) (Director of the District Court)
• Frank-Martin Neupärtl (1991–1998)

literature

• Otfried Keller: The court organization of the Marburg area in the 19th and 20th centuries , 1982, ISBN 3-9800490-5-1 , pp. 118-120, 181-183
• "Homberg (Efze), Schwalm-Eder district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Collection of laws for Kurhessen, year 1831, p. 157: Ordinance of December 21, 1831, concerning the change of some lower court districts, online
2. ^ Georg Landau: Justice Office Homberg . In: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . Theodor Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 252 ff . ( PDF 42.6 MB [accessed December 17, 2008]).
3. ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories excluding the Meisenheim district of June 26, 1867. ( PrGS 1867, pp. 1094–1103 )
4. ^ Reply of the Minister of Finance of May 3, 2011 to a small question from Abg. Ellen Enslin and Dr. Andreas Jürgens (BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN) of September 10, 2010 regarding sales proceeds and use of the former district court building, printed matter 18/2827, online (PDF; 65 kB)
5. ↑ HLG press release

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 2.9 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 28.3 ″  E