Wolfisheim Office

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Coat of arms of the Lichtenberg rule
Coat of arms of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg since 1606
Coat of arms of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt

The Wolfisheim office was an office of the Lichtenberg rule , from 1480 the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , from which it passed to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1736 .

history

The internal official organization of the Lichtenberg rule came into being at the end of the 13th century. Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), one of the two heirlooms of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474) married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417; † 1480), one of them had received a small secondary school from the inventory of the County of Hanau in order to be able to get married. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage. After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. In 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule , including the small Wolfisheim office.

With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , the Wolfisheim office came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, the inheritance - and with it the Wolfisheim office - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , the Wolfisheim office became part of France and was dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms.

According to a census from May 1798, the office had 3,112 inhabitants.

Components

Associated places

place origin Law annotation
Bolsenheim (castle) Only documented as an inventory of the office in Hesse-Darmstadt times.
Ehnwihr (Married Weier) Bought by the landgraves in Alsace? Fief to the von Ratsamhausen Since all of the fiefdoms were granted, only fiefdom remained at Hanau-Lichtenberg, so that the castle was only formally part of the office or not at all.
Eschau Bought by the landgraves in Alsace? Fief to the von Ratsamhausen Since the village and bailiwick were all fiefdoms, only fiefdom remained with Hanau-Lichtenberg, so that the place was only formally part of the office.
Fegersheim
Hangenbieten (village and mill) Allod Awarded to the Beger von Geispolsheim , so that the place was only formally part of the office.
Knebelsburg Castle
Muttersholtz (Muttersholz, Müttersholz, Mintersholz) Bought by the landgraves in Alsace? Fief to the von Ratsamhausen Since the village and bailiwick were all fiefdoms, only fiefdom remained with Hanau-Lichtenberg, so that the place was only formally part of the office.
Ohnenheim
Thaff Zell
Treipertsweiher
Wiebolsheim Was probably in the area of ​​Eschau
Wolfisheim (place, castle and mill) Proven to have been in Lichtenberg possession since 1271, finally to Lichtenberg in 1463. Fief of the Bishop of Metz

Other ingredients

literature

  • Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
  • Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
  • Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20, himself has doubts about the correct spelling of the name.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matt, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  3. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  5. ↑ Eyer, p. 179.
  6. ↑ Eyer, p. 208.
  7. ↑ Eyer, p. 179.
  8. ↑ Eyer, pp. 233f.
  9. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  10. ↑ Eyer, p. 179.
  11. ↑ Eyer, p. 208.
  12. ↑ Eyer, pp. 233f.
  13. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  14. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  15. ↑ Eyer, p. 111.
  16. ↑ Eyer, pp. 112, 181.
  17. ↑ Eyer, p. 234.
  18. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  19. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  20. ↑ Eyer, p. 179.
  21. ↑ Eyer, p. 208.
  22. ↑ Eyer, pp. 233f.
  23. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  24. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  25. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  26. ↑ Knöpp, p. 20.
  27. ↑ See: Matt, p. 9.
  28. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  29. ↑ Eyer, p. 54, note 22.
  30. ↑ Eyer, p. 75.
  31. ↑ Knöpp, p. 19; Eyer, p. 160.
  32. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  33. ↑ Eyer, pp. 141, 239.
  34. ↑ Eyer, p. 141.
  35. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  36. ↑ Eyer, pp. 141, 153, 239.
  37. ↑ Eyer, p. 202.