Volkach Regional Court

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The district court Volkach was 1804-1862 one, kurpfalz Bavarian , later Royal Bavarian administrative unit of the lower level with administrative and judicial duties, a so-called regional court earlier order based in Volkach . In 1862 it was converted into a purely legal entity , with the administrative tasks being separated from the Volkach district office . In 1879, due to the renewed restructuring, the name was changed to the Volkach District Court .

District Court of the older order (1804 to 1862)

In the course of the reorganization of Europe, which had become necessary due to the conquests of Napoleon, Electoral Palatinate Bavaria received several areas. They mostly came from the monasteries in the former Franconian Empire , which were dissolved by the secularization , including the monastery of Würzburg . The new masters soon began to reorganize the original high esteem offices. This also affected the Volkach Office , which had existed since the end of the Middle Ages.

The newly formed Volkach Regional Court in 1804 comprised the villages of Escherndorf , Köhler , Obervolkach and Untereisenheim from the old Volkach office, as well as several localities from the Klingenberg and Schwanfeld offices . In addition, a municipality was assigned to him, Laub , which originally belonged to the Würzburg Citizens Hospital. In addition, Fahr and the Vogelsburg monastery came to the regional court. From the spiritual territories, the district court received several communities that were formerly owned by the Münsterschwarzach Abbey , as well as places from the Ebrach monastery at Volkach. Astheim , owned by the Charterhouse there , was also assigned. The former aristocratic villages and estates of Obereisenheim , Gaibach , Rimbach , Strehlhof , Stettenmühle and Hallburg were a specialty . Administratively, they were assigned to the regional court, but retained their civil authorities in the first judicial instance.

In 1806 Ferdinand III. of Tuscany , awarded as Grand Duchy in exchange for Tyrol, Würzburg and the surrounding diocese . The Volkach Regional Court was retained in the meantime, it was only assigned to a grand ducal district commissioner.

When Würzburg and its surroundings became Bavarian again in 1814, the first thorough survey of the population in the district of Volkach took place. In 1814/1815 a total of 11,343 inhabitants lived in the district, with the vast majority being Catholic, while only 1,579 Lutherans, 390 Jews and 2 Reformed people were recorded. The district was administered by the so-called district judge, who resided in the former prince-bishop's office in Volkach. He was an administrative and police officer and judge rolled into one.

Triggered by the German Revolution of 1848/1849, the “intermediate powers” ​​of the gentry, which still had legal privileges in some places, were dissolved in the following years. Most recently, the villages of Krautheim and Eichfeld from the Wiesentheid regional court were added to the Volkach regional court as part of a reorganization.

District Court in the District Office (1862 to 1879)

On July 1, 1862, the judicial and administrative authorities were separated. Administratively, the Volkach District Office, later, from 1872, the Gerolzhofen District Office took the place of the old regional court, the court itself was retained and was now occupied by a regional judge as a single judge . At this point in time, some communities of the disbanded Dettelbach District Court were added to the Volkach district, which now retained the name Volkach District Court as a purely court district.

The places in the district of Volkach were: Astheim, Dimbach , Düllstadt , Eichfeld, Escherndorf with Vogelsburg, Fahr with Elgersheim , Gaibach with Hallburg and Öttershausen , Gernach , Järkendorf , Köhler, Kolitzheim with Wadenbrunn , Krautheim with Wenzelsmühle , Laub, Lindach , Nordheim am Main , Obereisenheim with Schiffmühle , Obervolkach with Stettenmühle, Reupelsdorf with Fuchsenmühle and Wasenmeisterei , Rimbach with Strehlhof, Sommerach , Stadelschwarzach , Stammheim am Main , Untereisenheim with Kaltenhausen , Volkach with Schaubmühle , Kirchberg and Herrnmühle , and Zeilitzheim with Herleshof and Lohmühle .

On October 1, 1879, the regional courts were dissolved in the course of the Courts Constitution Act and replaced by the newly formed local courts. Volkach received the Volkach District Court.

literature

  • Gerhard Egert: The political spatial planning in the area of ​​the Volkacher Mainschleife around 1814 . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop 1978–1992 . Volkach 2008.
  • Ute Feuerbach: Court and Office Volkach . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Volkach. 906-2006 . Volkach 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. Feuerbach, Ute: Court and Office Volkach . P. 52 f.
  2. ^ Egert, Gerhard: The political spatial planning in the area of ​​the Volkacher Mainschleife around 1814 . P. 268.
  3. Feuerbach, Ute: Court and Office Volkach . P. 53.
  4. Landgericht Volkach In: Königl. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Ackermann, Munich 1877, Col. 1299–1302, accessed on September 25, 2014.
  5. ^ Egert, Gerhard: The political spatial planning in the area of ​​the Volkacher Mainschleife around 1814 . P. 269.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 33.5 ″  E