Office Höchst

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Map of the Office Höchst 1828

The Office Höchst (at times also Oberamt Höchst or Amtsvogtei Höchst ) was an Electoral Mainz or Nassau office with the official seat of Höchst am Main .

history

Kurmainz

In 1398, the Höchst office included Höchst Castle and the villages of Sossenheim and Breitenloch, and a little later also Schwanheim . In 1474 and 1485, respectively, Frankfurt-Nied and Griesheim were added to the Höchst office, Astheim in 1579 , Sindlingen , Wicker and Weilbach in 1608 .

In 1781 the Oberamt Höchst was merged with the Oberamt Königstein and the Hofheim Office . The thus enlarged Oberamt Höchst included the Amtsvogtei Höchst , the Amtsvogtei Hofheim, the Amtsvogtei Königstein, the Amtsvogtei Eppstein and the Amtsvogtei Oberursel .

The district bailiwick of Höchst included the following places: Höchst, Nied, Griesheim, Schwanheim, Sindlingen, Sossenheim, Weilbach, Wicker and Gundhof, Klaraberg, Mönchhof, Bad Weilbach and Wiesenhof.

Nassau

With the homage to the Prince of Nassau-Usingen by the residents of the offices of Höchst, Hofheim and Oberursel on December 2, 1802, the office was transferred to Nassau-Usingen in anticipation of the resolutions of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803.

With the elevation of Nassau to the Duchy of Nassau due to joining the Rhine Confederation in 1806, Nassau also acquired the imperial village Niederhofheim with the Hof Hausen vor der Sonne , Soden and Sulzbach , which were affiliated to the Office Höchst.

The official reform of 1810 led to the Hofheim office being dissolved and the Höchst office added. Sulzbach and Soden are handed over to the Office of Kronberg . The Wallau office takes over Wicker and Weilbach and gives Niederhofheim, Okriftel and Ober- and Unterliederbach to the Höchst office.

The Höchst office, based in Höchst am Main, was one of 28 offices in the Duchy of Nassau , which was created on July 1, 1816 for the purpose of local administration. At the head of the Office of the Duke stood as a local governor a bailiff .

The following 19 localities belonged to the Office Höchst:

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The administrative tasks of the Höchst office were performed by the Höchst district office , the jurisdiction of the Höchst judicial office. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

Prussia

With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia , the offices in their old form were also dissolved and replaced by circles. In 1867 , the Höchst Office together with the Wiesbaden Office , the Hochheim Office and parts of the free imperial city of Frankfurt and Hesse make up the Main District . Only as part of this reorganization will administration and jurisdiction be separated. For the jurisdiction in the first instance, which was previously carried out by the office, the judicial officials in the offices were initially responsible and the Höchst District Court was formed on September 1, 1867 . When the new district regulations of the Hesse-Nassau province came into force on April 1, 1886, the office was assigned to the newly created district of Höchst .

But even after the founding of the district, the previous office structure will be retained. The Royal Ordinance of February 22, 1867 regulated: "The administrative districts as narrower administrative districts exist in their previous limits" The former offices form the three districts of the district. According to § 13 of the district constitution, the districts sent the former offices six representatives to the new district council . The bailiff was in charge of the local police and the district administrator.

With the administrative reform of 1885/1886 the offices were finally dissolved.

Bailiffs

The following officials were active in Höchst:

Officials:

Senior magistrates:

Nassau officials:

  • 1816–1820 Johann Wilhelm Salentin Müller
  • 1821–1830 Kaspar Hendel
  • 1830–1841 Johann Friedrich Schapper
  • 1841–1848 Christian Friedrich Magdeburg
  • 1848–1849 Wilhelm Dilthey
  • 1854–1856 Heinrich Freiherr von Wintzingerode
  • 1856–1867 Johann Friedrich Halbey
  • (1867) 1868–1879 Karl Schellenberg
  • 1879–1886 Adolph Carl Wilhelm Habel

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815–1945, 1979, ISBN 3879691266 , pp. 157–158

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Höchst, City of Frankfurt am Main". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ AJ Weidenbach: Nassau territories from the possessions immediately before the French revolution until 1866; in: Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 10, 1878, p. 286, online
  3. ^ Rudolf Schäfer: Chronik von Höchst am Main, 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0293-9 , pp. 123, 126, 129
  4. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Duchy of Nassau dated June 7, 1816 ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ Annals of the Society for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research : Volume 10, 1870, p. 328 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409)
  7. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)
  8. ↑ VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
  9. ↑ Royal Decree of February 22, 1867 Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau of March 11, 1867, § 8 and 9
  10. ↑ GS 1885, p. 229
  11. ^ Rudolf Schäfer: Chronik von Höchst am Main, 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0293-9 , pp. 33, 40, 41, 46, 49, 49, 51, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63, 79, 85 , 111, 112