Contains: Stock and authority history: The content of the respective stocks can be determined for all relevant partial stocks on the basis of the following classification scheme: I. (= A) State Constitution II. (= B) History, statistics and topography III. (= C) Relations with the German Reich and other States IV. (= D) State administration V. (= E) District and Provincial Administration VI. Relationships of the Class Lords VII. Fiefdom Matters (Subgroups VI. and VII. combined in the 'more modern' group name under the letter 'F', since hardly any records are handed down) VIII. (= G) Military and war affairs IX. (= H) Financial affairs X. (= I) Justice XI. (= J) Population XII. (originally XIII. = K) Church Affairs XIII. (originally XII. = L) Affairs of the Israelite Religious Communities XIV. (= M) Education XV. (= N) Community affairs XVI. (= O) Poor and charitable care XVII. (= P) Health care XVIII. (= Q) Security police XIX. (= R) Precautions against corruption of morals, forced education of minors, public representations and amusements, associations (including parties) XX. (= S) Press and book trade XXI. (= T) Agriculture, legal status of real property XXII (= U) Forestry, hunting and fishing XXIII (= V) Trade and commerce XXIV (= W) Social welfare XXV. (originally XXIV. = X) Transport XXVI. (originally XXV. = Y) Bauwesen XXVII. (originally XXVI. = Z) Feuerpolizei The holdings, which were established according to the district division valid until 1938 and 1945 respectively, date back in varying densities to the beginning of the Grand Ducal Hessian district administration with the creation of the first district districts in 1821/22. In individual cases, they still contain previous files dating back to the 18th century and further, and the running time of the files also occasionally leads to the period after 1945. - The older files from the period before 1820/21 were mostly outsourced and assigned to the Old File Holdings (E holdings). - The holdings, structured according to the registration plan for the Großherzoglich-Hessischen Kreisämter of 9 May 1833 and its revised version of 9 February 1906, were successively transferred to the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt. War losses: Total losses (with small remainders) occurred in the offices of the authorities in Darmstadt, Gießen, Mainz and Offenbach (of the districts of Gießen and Mainz, there were also about 600 files each in the State Archives, which were burned in 1944). In Darmstadt, Gießen and Mainz, the files of the governments and provincial directorates of Starkenburg, Oberhessen and Rheinhessen kept at the district offices were also destroyed. - The preserved records of the District Office, supplemented by later post-war deliveries, were generally left in the found subject grouping for the new archived indexing, either under department numbers I to XXVII or under the letters A to Z. The tradition of the district coffers was summarized in the column 'KK' (e.g. stock G 15 Friedberg KK No. ....) and listed in separate finding aids. The files of the district building, district school and district health offices were included in the respective subject groups of the registry plan. - The changing district divisions and competences were taken into account and adjusted as far as possible in the indexing work (for the changes in the district organisation see Ruppel/Müller, Historisches Ortsverzeichnis). Runtime: 1816-1968
