Eckendorf (Alteckendorf)

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Eckendorf is one of the two localities that formed the municipality of Alteckendorf in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ) in 1777 .

View of town with Lutheran church in 1950

history

middle Ages

The lordship of Lichtenberg bought the village of Eckendorf in 1332 from the Counts of Ötingen . It was an imperial loan . Due to the acquisition of territory in the 14th century, the Ingweiler and Buchsweiler authorities, which had become too extensive, had to be reorganized at the beginning of the 15th century . Among other things, the Pfaffenhofen office was spun off and made independent, to which Eckendorf also belonged.

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. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule . The Pfaffenhofen office with Eckendorf also belonged to this half.

Modern times

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 .

As a result of France's reunion policy in 1680, considerable parts of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Alsace fell under the sovereignty of France . This also included the Pfaffenhofen Office.

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there. In 1777 the villages of Eckendorf and Altdorf were combined to form the new municipality of Alteckendorf.

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].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Eyer, p. 61.
  3. ↑ Knöpp, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Eyer, p. 238; Knöpp, p. 15.
  5. ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
  6. ^ Alteckendorf, deux clochers, un village, Strasbourg . 1991, p. 224. ISBN 2-903297-45-2

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 19.9 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 56.9"  E