Espensteig

Espensteig City of Kaiserslautern Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '53 "  N , 7 ° 42' 45"  E
Height :	290 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	67661
Area code :	0631
Location of Espensteig in Rhineland-Palatinate

Espensteig is a small hamlet in the Hoheneck district in the southeast of Kaiserslautern .

location

The place is cut by the state road 502 and is located on the northern edge of the Palatinate Forest nature park , about 10 km southwest of the city center of Kaiserslautern. It is 2 km to Hohenecken in the north and Dansenberg is one kilometer away in the northeast.

history

The rule of the knight Siegfried von Hohenecken (Syfridus de Hoenechen) included Hohenecken Castle, first mentioned in 1212, as well as Hohenecken, Erfenbach, Espensteig, Siegelbach and Stockweiler. From a feudal deed from Count Palatine Ruprecht to the knight Reinhard von Hohenecken from 1401, the Lords of Hoheneck (en) emerge as the owners of Espensteigs. The place seal contained the letters HEEVS with the inscription court seal over the Hoheneckischen villages and the letters denoted the places Hohenecken, Espensteig, Erfenbach , Vrondau and Siegelbach . In 1688, the Hohenecker family sold the rulership to the Duke of Lorraine, who then exchanged it for another in 1733 in the Electoral Palatinate. In the middle of the 18th century, Espensteig was a “ considerable estate in the Palatinate Electorate of 6 families in 4 houses ... Previously awarded by the Court Chamber as an inheritance, the whole thing was finally owned by General Christoph Anton, Baron von Hautzenberg from the Palatinate ”.

Web links

• Photos on panoramio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hohenecken Castle in the Westpfalz Journal ( memento from September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ http://www.hist-verein-kl.de/html/geschichte_des_landkr__kl.html
3. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Volume 3, Verlag FC Neidhard, 1837, page 70