Weyhers District Court

The district court Weyhers was a royal Bavarian office in Weyhers , a municipality in today's district of Fulda ( Hesse ), which was created in 1819.

Places of the regional court

In 1861, the Weyhers district court had around 9,000 inhabitants who lived in an area of around 170 square kilometers. The following 26 places belonged to the district court district (with the respective population figures ): Abtsroda 280, Altenhof 210, Dalherda 700, Ebersberg 730, Gackenhof 393, Gichenbach 413, Hettenhausen 912, Lütter 455, Poppenhausen 1200, Ried 280, Rodholz 300, Schmalnau 850, Steinwand 683, Stellberg 245, Thalau 537 and Weyhers 797.

In 1824 a total of 1525 families with 8063 inhabitants lived in fourteen rural communities , four parish villages and four church villages , 10 hamlets , spread over 178 farms and 893 houses. Of these, 6,780 Catholics, 1,065 Protestants and 218 Jews. In 1832 there were 8,207 residents in 1,654 families in the judicial district. These included, as craftsmen and tradesmen, a pharmacist, two bakers, six cotton weavers, five büttner, twenty turners, two dyers, six glaziers, 447 linen weavers, two managers, 25 bricklayers, one butcher, 31 millers, a saddler, seven locksmiths, 23 blacksmiths, 38 tailors, eighteen joiners, 31 shoemakers, a soap boiler, four sieve makers, a plumber, five wagons, nineteen innkeepers, two brick makers and 26 carpenters.

Courtrooms

It is not known where the court sat until 1846. The courthouse was built between 1840 and 1844 (today Fuldaer Straße 1). After various changes in use, the Fulda district now operates a retirement home in it . In 1846 a building in the immediate vicinity was converted into a prison with ten cells.

District judge

Friedrich Vorhaus (1820–1822)
? Albert (1822-1831)
Egid Kapp (1831-1832)
Valentin Jörg (1832-1836)
Matthias Halbig (1836–1838)
Anton König (1838–1848)
Leonhard Geigel (1848–1857) (had the Ebersburg renovated)
Adam Streitel (1857–1862) (father of Franziska Streitel )

resolution

On July 1, 1862, the district offices in Bavaria were established and the administration of justice and administration were separated. The institutions for the administration of justice retained the name of the district court and the administrative authorities were given the name of the district office . Thus the regional court was only responsible for legal tasks, while administrative tasks were transferred to the Gersfeld district office .

From 1866 onwards, after Prussia's victory in the German War, all the municipalities in the judicial district no longer belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria. The Royal Bavarian Regional Court became a Royal Prussian District Court , which continued to exist until the Gersfeld district was dissolved in 1932.

literature

Wilhelm Volkert (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 472 .
Weyhers ..... our village . Rainer Erdmann, 2012, pp. 179–181