Katzenberg Court

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The court Katzenberg (also enclave or exclave Katzenberg ) was a medieval administrative unit for a number of villages and later an exclave of the former Electorate of Hesse on the northern edge of the Vogelsberg .

history

middle Ages

The Katzenberg court was probably formed from the district of the same name . The place of justice was on the 293 m high Katzenberg east of the Antrift stream between the places Seibelsdorf and Ruhlkirchen or on the 350 m high Richtberg north-east of it.

The area was Christianized by a student of Boniface . The area of ​​the Katzenberg court belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz and from the 13th century was a Mainz enclave within the Landgraviate of Hesse . As early as 1247, the Counts of Ziegenhain held the Katzenberg court, seat in Ruhlkirchen, as a Mainz fief after a widow Kuppel, nee. Schenck zu Schweinsberg , had waived it in return for a cash payment. Local nobility is manifested in Ohmes, Seibelsdorf and Ruhlkirchen at this time.

When the Counts of Ziegenhain and Johann II died out in the male line in 1450, the ore monastery Mainz moved the Katzenberg court in as a settled fiefdom. In 1464 the Archbishopric transferred the Katzenberg court for 322 Rhenish guilders to the Teutonic Order in Marburg , and in 1477 to the landgrave's court master Hans von Dörnberg .

The judicial district of Katzenberg in 1694: Copper engraving by the Mainz cartographer Nikolaus Person

Modern times

Landgrave Philip I introduced the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1526/27 , and the Katzenberg court was probably Protestant from 1550 to 1643; however, a Catholic priest had been working there again since 1604.

As a result of the French Revolution , the Elector of Mainz was expelled from Mainz in 1792 and the district of the Katzenberg court was occupied by units of the French 6th Chasseur Regiment in 1797/98. The originally French surnames “Bonnard” and “Fromandi” still exist in the area of ​​the former Katzenberg court. With the secularization and the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, Hessen-Kassel took possession of the former Mainz offices in central and northern Hesse: Together with the office and city of Neustadt and the three villages belonging to the office of Neustadt, the four villages of the Katzenberg court came to the newly formed principality of Fritzlar and with this to Hessen-Kassel. Ecclesiastically, the still Catholic communities of the Katzenberg court now belonged to the diocese of Fulda . During the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, the judicial district of Katzenberg came to the newly formed Kirchhain district and stayed there for 45 years.

After the war of 1866 , the "Katzenberg District" was added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse (-Darmstadt) with the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 , where it was incorporated into the Alsfeld district. The Hessian law continued to apply as a particular law . It was not until the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that it repealed.

As a result of the change of the Katzenberg court to the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Diocese of Fulda ceded the parish to the Diocese of Mainz in 1889 at the request of the papal nuncio .

On January 1, 1971, the community of Bernsburg and the four former Katzenberg communities of Ohmes, Seibelsdorf, Ruhlkirchen and Vockenrod merged to form the community of Antrifttal .

Area scope

The Katzenberg court comprised the following localities, a number of which fell desolate over time :

  • Burkendorf (desert)
  • Eisenwerkel (desert)
  • Engelborn (founded in the 5th to 8th centuries, deserted)
  • Hermannshain (desert)
  • Ohmes (oldest surviving mention 1238)
  • Ohmesdorf (founded in the 5th to 8th centuries, deserted)
  • Reprode (desert)
  • Reutershain (desert)
  • Rothartshain (desert)
  • Ruhlkirchen (oldest surviving mention 1231)
  • Seibelsdorf (oldest surviving mention, probably 1270)
  • Smydestocke (desert)
  • Vockenrod (founded probably in the 12th century; oldest surviving mention 1263)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Also Küppel, Koppel.
  2. ^ Ziegenhainer Regesten online No. 1247. Regest of the Counts of Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ Neustadt, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ Kurhessischer Staats- und Adreß-Kalender to the year 1817. P. 94.
  5. ↑ Upper Hesse (Hessen-Kassel) (1821–1865) on eKompendium-hgisg.de
  6. ↑ Art. 15, No. 1 of the peace treaty, printed by: Ernst Rudolf Huber: Documents on German Constitutional History 2 = German Constitutional Documents 1851–1900. 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3-17-001845-0 , No. 192, pp. 260 ff.
  7. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, pp. 104, 46, as well as the enclosed map.

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '  N , 9 ° 11'  E