Alzenau court

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The court Alzenau (previously also: court Wilmundsheim ) was a medieval administrative unit for a number of villages, which together with the courts Somborn , Hörstein and Moembris together the Freigericht Alzenau formed.

Function and history

The Alzenau court was originally an association of villages based on self-administration and cooperative structures, directly under the Empire and without a sovereign . In the course of territorialization , however, the courts merged in the Freigericht did not succeed in maintaining their independence and imperial immediacy against the pressure of the surrounding territorial lords, especially since the empire surrendered its rights to these territorial lords over time. In the early modern period , the Alzenau court was only the name of a sub-unit of the free court, which in turn was administered by the respective sovereigns similar to an office . Since 1740 the court Alzenau belonged to Kurmainz .

area

The Alzenau court included the villages

literature

  • Heinrich Brückner: The free court Willmundsheim before the Hart in its legal character and origin . In: Archive of the historical association for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg 68, Würzburg 1929.
  • Heinrich Dannenbauer : Free counties and free courts . In: Lectures and research (edited by the Institute for Historical Research of the Lake Constance Area in Konstanz). ND Konstanz 1963. Vol. 2 = The problem of freedom in German and Swiss history (Mainau lectures 1953), pp. 57–76.
  • Karl Ernst Demandt : History of the State of Hesse, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 293.
  • Reinhard Dietrich : Hanauer deduction writings . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 31. Hanau 1993, pp. 149ff: No. 5, 8, 10, 16, 18, 22, 28, 29, 43, 48, 54, 57, 79, 85, 105, 111, 114, 121 , 129, 131.
  • Josef Fächer: Alzenau . Munich 1968.
  • Josef Fächer: The territorial development in the area of ​​today's Alzenau district up to the end of the old empire . Wuerzburg 1964.
  • Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner: History and topography of the free court Wilmundsheim before the mountains or free court Alzenau . Aschaffenburg 1820.

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