Dachshurst

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Today Dachshurst is a farm near Eckartsweier , a district of the municipality of Willstätt in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Dachshurst as Dahsseshurst comes from 1233. Dachshurst was a small village or just a farm that belonged as an allod to the Lords of Lichtenberg . How it was acquired is unknown. Around 1330 there was a first division of land between Johann II. Von Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and Ludwig III. from Lichtenberg . Dachshurst fell into the part of the property that was managed by the older line in the future. It was assigned to the office of Willstätt of the Lichtenberg rule .

When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance passed to his two nieces, Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474) and Elisabeth von Lichtenberg. Anna had married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417, † 1480) in 1458, who had received a small secondary education from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to get married. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . Elisabeth married Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Lichtenberg legacy was shared between them. The Willstätt office and thus Dachshurst became a condominium between the two heirs.

Modern times

Under the government of Count Philip III. From Hanau-Lichtenberg there was a real division of the common condominiums: The Willstätt office came entirely to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg. In return, the Brumath office came entirely to Zweibrücken-Bitsch. Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran . In the 17th century Dachshurst was only a desert and was mentioned as such in the 18th century.

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, the inheritance - and with it the office of Willstätt - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the office of Willstätt with Dachshurst was assigned to the newly formed Electorate of Baden in 1803 . A courtyard was later rebuilt in the deserted area.

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).
  • Wilhelm Mechler: The territory of the Lichtenberger to the right of the Rhine . 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 31-37.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dachshurst in Leo BW.
  2. Eyer, p. 119.
  3. Eyer, p. 56.
  4. Eyer, p. 115.
  5. Eyer, p. 78.
  6. Eyer, p. 239.
  7. Mechler: Das Territorium , p. 34.
  8. Mechler, p. 35; Knöpp, p. 19.


Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '39.4 "  N , 7 ° 51' 6.5"  E