Deutschordensballei Thuringia

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The coming of the Balleien Thuringia and Hessen at the end of the 18th century

The Deutschordensballei Thuringia ( per Turingiam et Saxoniam ) was one of the oldest and richest ballei (order provinces in the imperial territory ) of the Teutonic Order .

history

It was donated before 1221 by the Ludowingian Landgraves of Thuringia in Zwätze ( Zuezen ) - today the northern suburb incorporated into the city of Jena - and richly endowed with possessions in Thuringia and Hesse . The local Coming was the seat of Landkomture . Relics from this time as land comers can still be viewed in the village (e.g. buildings and information boards). The first two knights who came to the court of Konrad of Mazovia in 1228 came from her .

All those coming of the Teutonic Knights in central Germany were originally grouped together in the Thuringia Ballei. In 1255, however , the Hesse Ballei was split off from it. The Kommende Marburg became the land commander. The remaining Ballei was divided again in 1287: into the Ballei Thuringia and the Ballei Sachsen (Upper and Lower Saxony).

Coming from the Ballei Thuringia

literature

  • Johannes Voigt : The German order-ballei Thuringia , in history of the German knight order in its twelve ballei in Germany , 1857 1st vol., P. 1ff
  • Johannes Voigt: Documents for the history of the German order-ball in Thuringia , in the journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Antiquity, 1859 3rd vol., P. 313-335.
  • Thomas Pester: Although the knights have disappeared ..., The old Zwatzen and the German Order , Part 1, ed. von Kulturlandschaft Zwätze e. V. 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-930128-85-3 ). Part 2, 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-00-025801-5 ).
  • Thomas T. Müller (Ed.): The German Order and Thuringia: Aspects of an 800-year history (Mühlhausen museums research and studies). Michael Imhof Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-86-568928-3 .
  • Series of publications by the Kulturlandschaft Zwätze eV association
  • The Deutschordensballei Thuringia with its headquarters in Zwätze , seminar work at the Abitur level at the Christian Gymnasium Jena ( PDF file ), 2008

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