Office Schönstein (Gilserberg)

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The office Schönstein was an office and court in the former county of Ziegenhain and Landgraviate of Hesse . The seat was Schönstein Castle in the Schönau district , a district of Gilserberg in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

Remains of Schönstein Castle

history

Goat Grove County

Count John I of Ziegenhain acquired in 1350 from the monastery Haina the jurisdiction over the villages Lischeid , Moischeid , Winterscheid and Gerwig Hain (now deserted ), having already in 1342 the right of first refusal had secured. In the same year, as part of a reorganization of the court and official administration of his county, he set up the new office of Schönstein to manage this newly acquired property, to which he also included the places Falkenhain , Frankenhain (both today Wüstungen), Treisbach , which were previously part of the court on the Wasen (at Sebbeterode ), Schönau and both Sachsenhausen assigned. He also transferred the goat grove portion of the court at the Kalten Hainbuche with the towns of Appenhain , Itzenhain and Witgenhain (today: Wüstung) to the new office and court , apparently initially while maintaining a certain special position .

As early as 1368, the castle, office and court of Schönstein were mostly pledged , initially - with the associated villages, the goat grove share in the court at the Kalten Hainbuche and income at Gilserberg - to the lords of Linsingen and von Gilsa , who also received the permission to do so Expand and strengthen the castle. In 1380 the Linsinger transferred their share of this pledge to the Lords of Gilsa. In 1387 the castle and court of Schönstein with the villages and the goat grove part of the court at the Kalten Hainbuche, the court Lindenborn and the income in Gilserberg were pledged to Tue von Falkenberg . In 1406 Count Johann II von Ziegenhain transferred a third of Schönstein with all accessories to Ekkebrecht von Grifte ; this pledge came through inheritance to Gertraud von Dersch and her husband Thomas von Fredebeul and was redeemed in 1420.

Landgraviate of Hesse

With the death of the last Count of Ziegenhain, Johann II. , The county, and with it the office of Schönstein, fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse , and until 1543 the castle was still the seat of Hessian officials who held the office of Schönstein with 14 places in the Gilserberg highlands managed. But the landgraves also repeatedly moved the castle and office, as early as 1489 together with Densberg Castle for 400 Rhenish guilders to Hermann Huhn von Ellershausen . In 1506, Schönstein Castle and Office and Densberg Castle were pledged to Otto Hund for 1000 guilders , and in 1543 the Hund announced that the pledge had been released with 1000 guilders.

Until the castle was destroyed in the Hessian civil war in 1469 , the court days were held on the Schönstein. Bohemian mercenaries of Landgrave Ludwig II of Niederhessen ( Hessen-Kassel ) destroyed the castle, which at that time his brother, Landgrave Heinrich III. von Oberhessen ( Hessen-Marburg ), belonged. (The neighboring castles of Densberg and Jesberg also fell victim to them.)

The last bailiff of Schönstein was another Otto Hund. From 1567 the office was administered by the city ​​school in Treysa .

In 1602, exchanged Landgrave Moritz of Hesse-Cassel part of the Office Schönstein (to the places Heimbach , Lischeid, Moischeid and Winterscheid) with his uncle, Landgrave Ludwig IV. Of Hessen-Marburg , against one third to home, city and department Braubach with Rhens . As the so-called Schönstein Supreme Court, it was now administered by the Hessen-Marburger Rentmeister in Rauschenberg in personal union. When Ludwig IV died childless in October 1604 and the Marburg succession dispute broke out between his nephews Moritz von Hessen Kassel and Ludwig V von Hessen-Darmstadt , the four villages of Moritz were reintegrated into the office of Schönstein. From 1624 the four villages were again administered from Rauschenberg, but already from 1646 with the Hessian War , and finally from 1648 they were again part of the Schönstein office. Since that year the office was again administered by the Treysaer Stadtschultheissen.

Adjacent administrative units

The administrative area bordered in the northwest on the Haina office , in the northeast and east on the short-lived Jesberg office , in the southeast on the Treysa office , in the south on the Kurmainzische exclave Neustadt , in the southwest on the Rauschenberg office and in the west on the Gemünden office .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ziegenhain, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

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