Machland District Court

Mitterberg Castle as the seat of the Machland District Court

The district court of Machland existed since about 1227 in the Machlandviertel , today's lower Mühlviertel in Upper Austria , and was replaced by the district court of Greinburg in 1533.

geography

The Machland district court bordered the Danube in the south, the land under the Enns (Lower Austria) in the east and the Riedmark in the west and northwest . The exact boundary between the Machland District Court and the Riedmark District Court can no longer be clearly established, but it was probably formed by the Aist , Waldaist and Weißen Aist .

history

In the first third of the 13th century, two large princely courts emerged in the Lower Mühlviertel, the Machland regional court with its seat at Arbing Castle and the Riedmark regional court with its seat in Freistadt . Since Baumgartenberg Abbey and Waldhausen Abbey also belonged to the Machland Regional Court, the latter is well documented. It is no coincidence that the first documentary mention of the regional court from 1240 refers to the Waldhausen monastery.

The ducal judges were able to pass death sentences, which were carried out in specially built execution sites, so-called gallows. The place of jurisdiction of the Machland regional court was Ruprechtshofen in the parish of Naarn .

The chaplains owned the Machland district court, which covered the majority of their contiguous property in the lower Mühlviertel, from 1277 until it died out in 1406. In the 14th century, they moved the seat of the district court to their ancestral home in Mitterberg .

When Windhaag was raised to power in 1491, Ladislaus Prager succeeded in setting up his own Windhaag district court by splitting off from the Machland district court.

Greinburg District Court

The Prüschenk , who held the Machland Regional Court from 1485, moved the seat of the court from Mitterberg to Greinburg (Heinrichsburg) in 1533 and gave it the new name of the Greinburg Regional Court .

Further territorial divisions took place in 1591 (regional court Schwertberg), 1592 (regional court Waldhausen), 1641 (regional court Kreuzen) and 1658 (regional court Baumgartenberg). Many of these small regional courts were eliminated by Emperor Joseph II or by the creation of the district courts in 1850.

Early judges

Traditional judges in the Machland are:

1227 Wenceslaus of Arbing
1240 Dietmar von Stein
1241 Heinricus de Friethalmdor
1281 Ulrich II von Kapellen
1304–1313 Marchart / Marquart von Osterberg
1314–1334 Janns von Kapellen, chief district judge as pledge holder
1322–1332 Weichart from Weißenbach
1332 Otto Marschall and Albrecht the scribe
1337–1343 Wetzel von Arbing
1345–1350 Lorenz Öder, sealed partly together with Hans von Kapellen
1351–1356 Otto Öder
1357 Heinrich Fleischess von Stein
1338–1359 Leutold the Steinreuter
1360 Konrad von Au
1365 Jans der Weigl / Wedln
1367 Heinrich the Schaffer, sealed next to Eberhard I. von Kapellen
1371–1373 Albrecht der Öder
1380 Ulrich the Wetzel
1383 Heinrich the Schaler, sealed together with Wenzel von Walsee
1394 (-1406?) Stefan Piber
1409 Thoman Tanpek, Windegg nurse

1412–1415 Ulrich von Rohrbach

1416 Ernst Prehafen, administrator

1427 Lienhart Stetthaimer, nurse at Reichenstein

1433 Heinrich Ternperger, keeper at Klingenberg

literature

Heribert Raidl: The gentlemen of chapels. Dissertation, Vienna 2002, pp. 215–220 (section “Landgericht Machland”).

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich, Duke of Austria, freed the Waldhausen Monastery from all jurisdiction of the bailiffs and captains and took over its bailiwick himself . In: Upper Austrian document book . Volume 3, No.LXXII, Krems, January 31, 1240, p. 78.
^ ^A ^b Leopold Josef Mayböck : The Landgericht Schwertberg 1591–1850, Part I. In: Windegger Geschehen. Bulletin of the Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring. 2006, p. 3 (with a map of the “Landgerichte im Unteren Mühlviertel, 15th – 17th centuries”; entire article, p. 2–14, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
^ Otto Guem : The regional courts in the lower Mühlviertel. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter . Volume 6, Issue 3/4, p. 60 (entire article p. 60–62, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Raidl 2002, p. 218.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Raidl 2002, p. 219.

[1] Friedrich, Duke of Austria, freed the Waldhausen Monastery from all jurisdiction of the bailiffs and captains and took over its bailiwick himself . In: Upper Austrian document book . Volume 3, No.LXXII, Krems, January 31, 1240, p. 78.

[Mayböck-2] A ^b Leopold Josef Mayböck : The Landgericht Schwertberg 1591–1850, Part I. In: Windegger Geschehen. Bulletin of the Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring. 2006, p. 3 (with a map of the “Landgerichte im Unteren Mühlviertel, 15th – 17th centuries”; entire article, p. 2–14, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

[Guem60-3] Otto Guem : The regional courts in the lower Mühlviertel. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter . Volume 6, Issue 3/4, p. 60 (entire article p. 60–62, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

[Raidl218-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Raidl 2002, p. 218.

[Raidl219-5] Raidl 2002, p. 219.