Hadamar Court of Appeal

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Cover sheet of the Nassau Higher Appeal Court Code (probably 1805)

The Higher Appeal Court of Hadamar was the joint Higher Appeal Court of the Nassau principalities with its seat in Hadamar between 1804 and 1806 .

Nassau-Dillenburg , Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Usingen had already made arrangements in the Nassau Hereditary Association in 1783 that were to reunite the branches of the Nassau House in the future. After the territorial changes through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the Nassau princes decided to set up two common facilities for all three remaining Nassau principalities: a common feudal court and a common court of appeal. This received its seat in Hadamar in 1804 and was the third and final authority responsible for the three principalities.

The reason was that Section 33 of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss had given the Nassau House the ius de non appellando . This meant that Nassauer could no longer sue the Reich Chamber of Commerce and Nassau had to set up a court of last resort in return. In Wiesbaden, Dillenburg and Weilburg there were doubts that the ius de non appellando was effectively acquired through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (even if the emperor had signed the main conclusion). A formal certificate of this right was therefore requested from the imperial court chancellery, which was also issued in a certificate dated April 12, 1805 (against payment of 25,000 guilders ).

At a conference in Ems on August 22, 1803, the representatives of the three principalities agreed on the details of the facility. The seat should be in Hadamar. The court should have a chamber consisting of six councils. Half of these should be named by Nassau-Oranien-Fulda and the other half by Usingen and Weilburg. The costs should also be shared in half. The minimum amount in dispute from which an appeal was possible was set at 300 guilders. For the privileged plaintiffs, it was 100 guilders in Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg and 200 guilders in Orange. The court was to be called the Princely Nassau Collective Higher Appeal Court .

On July 6, 1804, the court was officially opened. The first councilors appointed at the court were:

The first and only President of the Higher Appeal Court was Karl Friedrich August von Dalwigk (1761-1825). He then became President of the Higher Appeal Court in Diez .

The salary of the president was 4,200 guilders, that of the councilors 2,000 guilders annually.

With the Rheinbundakt , Hadamar fell to the Duchy of Berg in 1806 .

The Duchy of Berg initially retained the court. It was only responsible for the old Orange parts of the Duchy of Berg. With a rescript of April 4, 1807, the pending proceedings were assigned to the Düsseldorf Higher Tribunal and the salary payments to the court ended on April 1, 1807.

The Duchy of Nassau , which had now emerged from the merger of the Nassau principalities, moved the court to Diez in May 1810 and later formed the Wiesbaden Higher Appeal Court .

The Hadamar Higher Appeal Court was housed in the former administration building next to the castle .

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