Hörstein Court

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

Function and history

The Hörstein court was originally an association of villages based on self-government 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 Hörstein 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 Hörstein court belonged to Kurmainz .

area

The Hörstein 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: Hörstein . Munich 1968.
  • Josef Fächer: The territorial development in the area of ​​today's Hörstein district up to the end of the old empire . Wuerzburg 1964.
  • Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner: History and topography of the free court Wilmundsheim vor dem Berge or free court Hörstein . Aschaffenburg 1820.

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