Altdorf (Babenhausen)

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Altdorf is a desert and was a village in what is today the district of Babenhausen in the southern Hessian district of Darmstadt-Dieburg .

location

The desert is about 1.5 km south of the old town of Babenhausen, 129 m above sea ​​level . Altdorf was roughly where the Babenhausen shopping and industrial area is located south of Bundesstraße 26 today.

history

It was first mentioned in 1176 when the abbot of the Fulda monastery confirmed the sale of goods in Altdorf to Kuno I von Münzenberg . In the Middle Ages quite significant, it was the seat of a land and centering court and had its own parish. Either through the dowry of Adelheid von Münzenberg when she married Reinhard I. von Hanau or through the Munzenberg inheritance , Altdorf passed to the lords and counts of Hanau . It belonged to the office of Babenhausen of the Hanau rule , later Hanau county , following the Hanau-Lichtenberg county . In 1452 the Counts of Hanau gave Altdorf to Ewald von Düdelsheim as a fief . In 1528 the Landgrave of Hesse is the fiefdom holder. When the county of Hanau was divided in 1458, Altdorf fell to the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg.

Altdorf was destroyed in the Thirty Years War in 1622 and in 1635 the remaining inhabitants were further decimated by a plague . The village was not rebuilt. Its district went into Babenhausen. Around 1770 the Altdorfer Hof was built as a single homestead in the deserted area .

Historical forms of names

In the historical documents, the place is documented under changing place names over the centuries :

  • Altorff (1176)
  • Altdorf (1355)
  • Altdorf (1357)
  • Altorf (1377)
  • Altorff (1383)
  • Althorff (1412)
  • Altorff (1451)
  • Alttorf (1482)
  • Aldorff (1552)
  • Alttorff (1576)
  • Altdorf (1624)

District and district court Altdorf

The Altdorf regional and district court was a fief given by Hanau to the Lords of Groschlag , which were returned to the feudal lords in 1431. The court consisted of 12 lay judges chaired by the centgrave.

The city ​​law of Frankfurt am Main was applied , later the Solms land law . Oberhof was Frankfurt.

The original rhythm of the conference is not known. Later there were three annual sessions. The substantive jurisdiction extended to the high, embarrassing jurisdiction , extensive civil law disputes and cases of the security of the country, property, liberty and honor. The local jurisdiction extended to

Court days originally took place under a linden tree and all residents with legal capacity had to be present. The court later met in the playhouses of the localities involved. In the 16th century the court was moved to the city of Babenhausen by the sovereign, whereby the city itself should no longer fall under the jurisdiction of the court. It was also partly occupied by municipal aldermen and was responsible for the more important proceedings. The city court of Babenhausen negotiated smaller cases.

church

In 1374 an own pastor is mentioned, in 1451 a church, which in 1473 is called "parish church". She is the Mary consecrated. Harreshausen, Langenbrücken, Langstadt and Hildenhausen belonged to the parish. Even the church in Babenhausen was just a branch of Altdorf. The church patronage was with those of Rodenstein and was - at least in 1473 - given to those of Düdelsheim as a fief. The central church authority was the Archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg, Landkapitel Montat . With the Reformation in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg, the place became Lutheran .

Worth knowing

Altdorf is still reminiscent of Altdorf today in Babenhausen by the streets Altdörfer Straße and the field name Hinter der Altdörfer Kirche .

literature

  • Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main (= publications of the Hessian State Office for historical regional studies. Vol. 29, ZDB -ID 506886-1 ). Elwert, Marburg 1966, p. 91, (at the same time: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1965).
  • Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book. Volume 1: Starkenburg. Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse, Darmstadt 1937, pp. 7–9.
  • Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The devastation in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Starkenburg Province. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862, pp. 78–84 .
  • Georg Wittenberger: Stadtlexikon Babenhausen. 700 years of Babenhausen town charter 1295–1995. City administration Babenhausen, Babenhausen 1995.

Web links

Altdorf, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Altdorf, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of September 25, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 30, 2014 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 59 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 6 ″  E