District of Gladenbach

Former administrative building in Gladenbach: seat of the district administrator of the district of Gladenbach

Detail of the former office building in Gladenbach

The district of Gladenbach was a district in the Grand Duchy of Hesse with its seat in Gladenbach . Founded in 1821, it became part of the Biedenkopf 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 district of Gladenbach arose from:

• the Blankenstein office without the town of Krumbach ,
• the part of the Biedenkopf office to the right of the Lahn without the village of Wolfsgruben ,
• the places Roßbach , Ober- and Nieder-Weidbach , Bischoffen and Wilsbach from the Königsberg office ,
• the patrimonial court Grund Breidenbach , a condominium between Hesse and the barons of Breidenbach zu Breidenstein and
• the patrimonial court of Elmshausen of the Lords of Elmshausen.

The tasks that the offices had performed in the area of first instance jurisdiction were transferred to the Gladenbach Regional Court .

Further development

In 1823, patrimonial jurisdiction in Grund Breidenbach and Elmshausen was ceded to the state.

The End

In a regional reform in 1832, the district councils were dissolved and merged into larger districts . Shortly afterwards, their layout was determined by another ordinance , whereby the districts of Gladenbach, Battenberg and Vöhl were combined to form the Biedenkopf district .

Seat

The seat of the district administrator was the stately grand ducal office (Marktstrasse 9). The three-story half-timbered building from 1757 had previously been the seat of the Blankenstein office.

Remarks

1. ↑ The parts and wolf pits to the left of the Lahn came to the district of Battenberg ( 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, pp. 408 f .).

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)

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 409.
2. ^ So: Breidenbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf district . In: LAGIS : Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 16, 2018; Elmshausen, Marburg-Biedenkopf district . In: LAGIS: Historical local dictionary ; Status: October 16, 2018. The primary sources could not be determined.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ^ 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 (563).