Sinzig Treasury

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The Sinzig Treasury was a royal administrative area based in Sinzig , which was first recorded in 762.

history

In a document dated July 10, 762, issued in the Königspfalz Sinzig ( sentiaco palatio ), the Frankish King Pippin the Younger gave ownership and usage rights within the later so-called Treasury Sinzig to the imperial monastery Prüm .

In a document from Louis the Pious dated October 1, 814, the emperor confirmed donations in various fiscal goods to the monasteries of Stablo and Malmedy , including the Sinzig treasury ( fiscus noster ). In a certificate of Otto I dated February 1st, 950 these donations are confirmed with the same words.

In a document dated January 16, 855, Emperor Lothar I gave the Marienstift in Aachen the St. Palatine chapel consecrated to Peter in Sinzig ( in fisco nostro qui vocatur Sinciacus ) with many estates, tithes and associated people.

Former Zehnthof in Sinzig

Sinzig is listed in the table goods directory, a list of imperial goods from the year 1064/65.

The Reichsburg Landskron was built in 1206 under the Hohenstaufen ministerial Gerhard I von Sinzig . At that time, the imperial estate district comprised the places Sinzig, Bodendorf , Heckenbach , Königsfeld , Koisdorf and Westum .

Under the successors of Gerhard I von Sinzig, all with the name Gerhard, Landskron developed its own rule and the Reichsgut was alienated from the Reich. In 1369 the line of the Lords of Landskron died out in the male line. Landskron Castle with the rule Landskron came in large part to the adjacent Duchy of Jülich , which since 1337 more and more rights in advance imperial Sinzig and Remagen by the emperors Ludwig the Bavarian and Charles IV. Attain and the adjacent since 1546 county Neuenahr incorporate could.

expansion

According to a certificate from Otto III. from May 19, 992, the size of the Sinzig Treasury at that time can be determined. It stretched 20 kilometers from Sinzig to Kesseling and from there ten kilometers to Adenau . This gives you an area of ​​around 200 square kilometers. The administration was provided by a Count Palatinate based in Sinzig.

literature

  • Wim Kossin: Sinzig in the Middle Ages 700–1500 . In: Jürgen Haffke, Bernhard Koll (ed.): Sinzig and its districts - yesterday and today. City of Sinzig, Sinzig 1983, p. 53 ff.