Bailiwick Office

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A Vogteiamt was a legal institution of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, the task of which was to exercise the Vogtei .

definition

Bailiwick offices were judicial and administrative authorities in the Holy Roman Empire (HRR), which were entrusted with the exercise of village and community rule in addition to the Vogtei-related jurisdiction . In the course of the great restructuring process that took place in the legal system of the HRR in the 16th century, the bailiwick offices in the Swabian-Franconian area became the actual bearers of the state organization in the territories of the old empire. They solved in this function, the pennies and Fraischämter from whose area of expertise to the pursuit of the high courts was concentrated affiliated four or five "high Rügen" (murder and manslaughter, severe bloody assault, theft, rape and nightly arson). The sovereignty , which was based on the high judiciary , was replaced by the sovereignty , the legal basis of which was the manorial ownership. This development led to an extremely pronounced fragmentation of the territorial legal relationships in the HRR. For while it is in the high court districts these were closed and clearly defined territorial units, this was true for the Bailiwick authorities assigned Bailiwick districts not to, because instead it consisted of a conglomerate variety of landed property. The bailiwick districts were therefore comparable to the ownership structure of a farm, whose non-contiguous properties are mostly spread over the area of ​​several municipalities . Those village markings in which a bailiwick exercised the village and community rule also played a special role , because this was the decisive criterion in the Swabian-Franconian area in order to be able to successfully claim the sovereignty over the village markings in question.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ City and district of Bamberg . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 42-43 .
  2. ↑ Erich Freiherr von Guttenberg, Hanns Hubert Hoffmann: Stadtsteinach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 34 ( online ).
  3. ^ City and district of Bamberg . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 42 .
  4. ↑ Kronach - The Altland District . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 45 .
  5. ^ Ingomar Bog: Forchheim . In: Commission for Bavarian State History (Hrsg.): Historischer Atlas von Bayern . Munich 1955, p. 15 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de [accessed January 12, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 87 .