Boyneburg Court

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In the early modern period, the Boyneburg court was a partially autonomous area of ​​rule in the east of the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel that followed it .

Emergence

At the Reichsburg Boyneburg , ministerials were used to administer the surrounding imperial property. In the course of the so-called interregnum and the subsequent weakness of the central power, imperial ministerial Burgmanns increasingly viewed their service goods as their own property. When the Landgraviate of Hesse was elevated to an imperial principality in 1292, the fiefdom nexus was established by the city of Eschwege and the Boyneburg: Landgrave Heinrich I made Eschwege a fiefdom for King Adolf , who transferred Eschwege and the Boyneburg to the Landgraves as hereditary imperial fiefs. The lords of Boyneburg , who lived at the castle and had named themselves after the castle since at least 1138, refused the landgrave their submission to the landgrave for a long time in order to defend their immediate imperial status, which led to disputes lasting over two centuries. A settlement was not reached until 1449, and from 1460 the von Boyneburg family held the castle and the former imperial property belonging to it as a landgrave-Hessian inheritance.

scope

The Boyneburg court consisted of 19 villages north and south of Eschwege , in which the von Boyneburg were the dominant landlords (with the exception of Datterodes , which was in the Boyneburg court, but was not ruled by the von Boyneburg manorial lords ).

Up until the Thirty Years' War , the Boyneburg court remained a semi-autonomous domain. But then the events of the war forced the Boyneburgers to subordinate their area legally and factually to the landgrave; however, even then the landgrave officials had no executive power in the Boyneburg court.

literature

  • Thomas Diehl: Aristocratic rule in the Werra area. The Boyneburg court in the process of laying the foundations for early modern statehood (late 16th to early 18th century) , Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt and Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88443-314-0 (sources and Research on Hessian History 159).