Oberamt Herbstein

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The Oberamt Herbstein was an office of the Hochstift Fulda and the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda .

function

In the early modern period , offices were a level between the municipalities and the sovereignty . The functions of administration and jurisdiction were not separated here. The office was headed by a bailiff who was appointed by the rulers.

geography

The Oberamt Herbstein consisted of two spatially separated parts: the town of Herbstein , also known as the “Amt Herbstein”, and the spatially separated “Court of Hosenfeld ”. The Amt Herbstein was a Fulda exclave , Roman Catholic and surrounded by Protestant territory.

history

Fulda

Since the 18th century the office has been called the "Oberamt". Formally, a noble bailiff was at its head. This office was a sinecure at the end of the Old Kingdom in 1806 . The chief official of the Oberamt was in fact the city school authority of the city of Herbstein or the governor of the Hosenfeld court.

Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda

The Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda was formed as compensation for the deposed governor of the Netherlands. With regard to jurisprudence and administration, a reorganization of the existing offices was carried out with the rulers' ordinance on January 8, 1803 relating to the higher authorities and offices . By an announcement of March 22, 1805, the Blankenau Provost Office and the Herbstein City School Office were abolished and assigned to the Grossenlüder Office .

Grand Duchy of Frankfurt

In 1806 France occupied the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda. It was initially under military administration and the Oberamt Großenlüder belonged to the Fulda department as the Salmünster district mairie . The structure did not change (see court organization in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ). In particular, the separation of the judiciary from the administration was not introduced. The former court of Hosenfeld remained part of the Grossenlüder Oberamt, Herbstein, on the other hand, came to the Grand Duchy of Darmstadt: On May 11, 1810, the Grand Duchy and France signed a state treaty with which France gave territories that it had occupied in 1806 to the Grand Duchy. The treaty concluded in May was not signed by Napoléon until October 17, 1810. The Hessian occupation patent was only dated November 10, 1810.

Kurhessen

According to the final act of the Congress of Vienna on July 9, 1815, the Oberamt Grossenlüder (without the Grand Ducal Hessian Herbstein) passed to the Kingdom of Prussia . This transferred the office on October 16, 1815 to the Electorate of Hesse . In 1822, jurisdiction was separated from administration in Kurhessen. The administrative functions were transferred to the Fulda district , the judicial function to the Grossenlüder judicial office .

Duration

Office Herbstein

For the "Amt Herbstein" see: here .

Court of Hosenfeld

In 1365 Abbot Heinrich VII pledged the court to Johann von Dernbach . In 1386 von Fischborn and von Lüder each acquired half of the dish. The von Lüder later also acquired the other half. In 1752 Fulda redeemed the pledge and was the sole owner of the court.

The Hosenfeld court had experienced a number of border shifts in the course of history. The place Jossa , which was still part of the office in 1423, later got into a legally unclear position due to pledges and sales. In 1603 the residents refused to pay homage to Fulda on the instructions of the owners of the village (one third from Boineburg and two thirds from Romrod). In a document from 1676 Fulda was only granted the four high Rügen. After Fulda bought back the village, it was not assigned to the Hosenfeld court in 1738, but to the Lüder court .

The court also lost the town of Gersrod . Originally part of the court, from 1603 it is run as part of the Blankenau provost 's office. At the end of the Old Kingdom, the dish included Brandlos , Houseleek , Hosenfeld , Pfaffenrod , Poppenrod and Schletzenhausen .

In 1752 the Hosenfeld court was subordinated to the Herbstein Office.

Personalities

literature

  • The Fürstlichen Hochstift Fulda state and state calendar, 1800, p. 86, digitized
  • Anneliese Hofemann: Studies on the development of the territory of the imperial abbey of Fulda and its offices. 1958, pp. 114-120 and 123-125.
  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.
  • Fuldaer Land / Rommerz in the 19th century from Heinrich Jakob Stöhr: Concept, scope and organization of the state of Fulda in the 19th century in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter 1934.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Text (in French ) in: Schmidt, p. 30ff, note 100.
  2. ↑ Schmidt, p. 30.
  3. ↑ Schmidt, p. 33.