Free County of Heppen
The Free County of Heppen was an independent judicial district (a free county or free court) that existed in the late Middle Ages with the place of jurisdiction in Heppen , now a district of Bad Sassendorf . The majority of the Free County of Heppen gradually became an integral part of the dominion of the city of Soest , later known as the Soest Börde .
Territorial inventory and development
The free county can be grasped from 1262 at the latest, when the knight Rotger Pape (= Clericus), holder of the royal spell for the Bailiwick of Soest, is also mentioned as a judge in the free court. The Freigericht H. is referred to here as Vogtding , as Vogtgericht . The free county was sold in 1368 together with the county of Arnsberg to the archbishopric of Cologne ; The city of Soest, which had financially supported the Archbishop of Cologne, received the free county as a pledge of 500 guilders during this process . Although the deposit was apparently redeemed by 1394, the area of the Free County later, with the exception of Brockhausen, was part of the Soester Börde. The following settlements belonged to the area of the Free County of Heppen in 1394: Gabrechte, Heppen, Lohne , Sassendorf and Weslarn , today parts of Bad Sassendorf, and Brockhausen, today part of Lippetal . Within the Soester Börde, Gabrechte, Lohne and Sassendorf belonged to the Oberbörde and Heppen and Weslarn to the Niederbörde.
literature
- Wolfgang Bockhorst: Soest and the Börde up to the Reformation . In: Soest. History of the city. 2. The world of the citizens - politics, society and culture in the late medieval Soest. Soest 1996, ISBN 3-87902-043-4 , pp. 153-171