District District Dieburg

The district of Dieburg was a district in the Grand Duchy of Hesse with its seat in Dieburg . It existed from 1821 and was added to the Dieburg district in 1832 .

history

Emergence

In the course of the administrative reform of 1821 in the Grand Duchy, jurisdiction and administration were also separated at the lower level , and the tasks of the traditional offices were reorganized in district districts - responsible for administration - and district court districts - responsible for jurisdiction. The Darmstadt district council arose from:

• the Umstadt office ,
• the Dieburg office with the exception of Ober-Roden and Nieder-Roden ,
• the Otzberg office ,
• the Schaafheim office with the exception of Dietzenbach and
• the communities of Kleestadt and Langstadt from the Babenhausen office .

The original origins of the places were very different:

• 4 from "Old Hessen" stock ( Upper County Katzenelnbogen )
• 6 from condominium possession between Hesse and the Electoral Palatinate ,
• 4 places in the Electoral Palatinate,
• 2 Kurmainzische places,
• 2 Hesse-Kassel locations and
• 3 locations that were acquired by Bavaria in 1817 .

All places belonged to the "Dominiallands" in 1821 - there was no patrimonial jurisdiction and the state was the sole holder of all sovereign rights.

The jurisdiction in this area was transferred to the newly established Umstadt Regional Court .

The End

In the regional reform of 1832, the district councils were dissolved and merged into larger districts . Shortly afterwards, their layout was defined in a further regulation . The district of Dieburg merged with the district of Reinheim in the new district of Dieburg .

Internal administration

The district council was divided into mayor's offices , which were subordinate to the district administrator. Several smaller towns were often administered by a mayor's office. From 1822 the Hessian municipalities were able to choose their mayors themselves; mayors were no longer employed. The 20 mayor offices of the district of Dieburg were:

1. Altheim ,
2. The castle,
3. Dorndiel ,
4. Large rooms ,
5. Harpertshausen ,
6. Hering with the Otzberg,
7. Heubach ,
8. Kleestadt ,
9. Klein-Umstadt ,
10. Small rooms ,
11. Langstadt ,
12. Lengfeld with tips ,
13. Mosbach ,
14. Radheim ,
15. Raibach ,
16. Rich ,
17. Schaafheim ,
18. Schlierbach ,
19. Semd and
20. Groß-Umstadt .

Parallel administrations

Finances

For the income from state property (the so-called domains ) there were the rent offices . The Umstadt Rent Office was responsible for the entire district .

The tax administration was separate from this. The tax district Dieburg was responsible for the district administration, which included all places and was part of the Umstadt administration . The tax district of Dieburg was in turn divided into three district takings, which consisted of Dieburg with Altheim, Großzimmer Harpertshausen, Kleinzimmern and Semd, Schaafheim with Dorndiel, Kleestadt, Kleinumstadt, Langstadt, Moßbach, Radheim and Schlierbach as well as Umstadt with Hering, Heubach, Lengfeld and Raibach.

The district belonged to the main customs office in Offenbach and had the secondary customs office of the second class in Schaafheim.

Forest

The forest administration of the district of Dieburg was taken care of by the forest Umstadt . This had four forest areas in the district: 1. Altheim with Harpertshausen, Kleestadt, Langstadt, Richen, Schlierbach and Semd; 2. Dieburg with large rooms; 3. Lengfeld with Hering, Heubach and Umstadt; 4. Schaafheim with Dorndiel, Kleinumstadt, Moßbach, Radheim and Raibach. The place Kleinzimmern belongs to the forest district Roßdorf des Forst Reinheim .

church

The church administration in the district had two Protestant inspectorates. The Lutheran Inspectorate Umstadt , to which the following parishes belonged: the first parish Umstadt with Raibach, Richen and Semd; the second parish Umstadt with Heubach, Kleinumstadt, Lengfeld and Wüstamorbach (from the district of Breuberg), Großzimmer, Kleestadt, Langstadt; Schaafheim with Schlierbach and the Spitzaltheim; Altheim with Harpertshausen. The parishes belong to the Reformation Inspectorate Umstadt : the first parish Umstadt with Kleinumstadt, Raibach, Richen and Wüstamorbach; the second parish Umstadt with Semd; Hering with Heubach and Hassenroth (from the Breuberg district); Lengfeld with Frauenaus, Niederringen, Oberklingen and Wiebelsbach (all except Lengfeld from the Breuberg district); Neckarsteinach with Darsberg. The parish of Grein and Langenthal were not assigned to any inspectorate. The Catholic parishes of Hirschhorn with Hainbrunn and Hammelbacher Hof, Neckarsteinach with Darsberg, Grein and Langenthal, Unterschonmattenwaag with Schönbrunn, were not assigned to any regional chapter. Neckarhausen belongs to the Baden Protestant parish of Dilsberg and the Catholic parish of Schönau.

Historical description

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports in 1829 on the district of Dieburg:

The location and boundaries are described as: “The district lies between 49 ° 48 'and 49 ° 75' north latitude and between 26 ° 24 'and 26 ° 44' south longitude. The borders are to the north: the districts of Langen and Seligenstadt; to the east: the Bavarian Lower Main District; to the south: the districts of Breuberg and Reinheim and to the west: the districts of Breuberg and Darmstadt. "

The natural condition as: “a) Surface and soil: The western part of the district is quite flat, while the eastern and partly the southern part is somewhat mountainous. The Otzberg 1593 Hess belongs here . Feet (0.25 m) above the surface of the sea, the hills near Umstadt. The soil is different. In the western half. especially at Dieburg it is partly very sandy. The other half, however, has a heavy soil which partly consists of Liesch , which is more or less mixed with clay and plant soil, and partly also consists of good black earth. b) Waters: 1) the Gersprenz ; 2) the Mühlbach; 3) the Semderbach ; 4) the Richenbach. "

The population as: “This amounts to 19,682 souls, among these are 10,794 Lutherans, 6256 Catholics, 2064 Reformists and 568 Jews, who together live in 3 cities, 3 market towns, 14 villages and 1 hamlet, altogether 2921 houses.”

The natural products as: “Horses 1119; Foal 107; Bulls 38; Ox 161; Cows 4738; Cattle 1186; Pigs 3776; Sheep 3148; Goats 466; Donkey 6. Waizen, especially in small rooms; Barley and spelled , much in the whole district; Grain, oats, a little millet and catfish grain ; lots of legumes, fodder herbs, potatoes, rape, poppy seeds especially in Semd, Lengfeld, Dieburg; the latter partly supplies a reddish oil; Hemp a lot and good in large and small rooms; Flax is partly the main product; some tobacco, some wine to Umstadt; Fruit; Peat near Kleestadt, Kleinumstadt, Richen, Dieburg. The first two places have the most important camps; good pottery and brickworks at Großzimmer and Dieburg. Many sandstone camps; Fractions of it at Heubach, Lengfeld, Raibach, Dorndiel, Radheim, Umstadt. Of these quarries, which all yield red stones, those at Heubach and Lengfeld are the best and most important, and especially the former are of excellent quality; only those who have moved from town are not hewn. "

Trade and trade as: “Agriculture, cattle breeding, handicrafts. At Dieburg there is a cardboard factory and an excellent steel and sheet metal factory; to the large rooms there is a tobacco factory, and in Moßbach there is a paint factory. Among the craftsmen, the following are mentioned in particular: the linen weavers, the tanners in Umstadt, Dieburg, Großzimmer, some of whom deliver good goods, the stoners in Goßzimmer and Dieburg, whose goods are heavily exported, the dyers in Dieburg. The sandstone quarries in the district, like the many pavers in Dieburg, bring in a lot of money from outside. There are 40 mills in the district, which apart from the cardboard cover and 2 tinder mills are all meal and oil mills. "

literature

• Willi Görich : Administrative division 1821 [map] = panel 25a. In: Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde (Hrsg.): Geschichtlicher Atlas von Hessen . Marburg 1960–1978. Digitized
• Ulrich Reuling : Administrative division 1821–1955. With an appendix on the administrative area reform in Hesse 1968–1981 . In: Fred Schwind (Ed.): Historical Atlas of Hessen. Text and explanatory volume . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1984. ISBN 3-921254-95-7 digitized version (PDF)

Remarks

1. ↑ These two communities fell to the district of Langen ( ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt , No. 33, July 20, 1821, p. 405).
2. ↑ Dietzenbach also fell to the district of Langen ( ordinance regarding the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt , No. 33, July 20, 1821, p. 405).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette, No. 33, July 20, 1821, p. 405 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, p. 47 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
3. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette, No. 33, July 20, 1821, p. 406.
4. ↑ Art. 1 Edict, the organization of the government agencies subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, relating to June 6, 1832. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt , No. 55, July 4, 1832, pp. 365–376.
5. ^ Ordinance on the formation of circles in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse on August 20, 1832. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt , No. 74, September 5, 1832, pp. 561-563 (562).