Court of Mömbris

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The court Mömbris was a medieval administrative unit for a number of villages on the western edge of the Spessart .

Function and history

The Mömbris court was originally an association of villages based on self-administration and cooperative structures, directly under the Empire and without a sovereign . With three other similarly structured dishes in the neighborhood, Somborn , Alzenau and Hörstein , it was merged to form the Alzenau free court . In the course of territorialization , however, the courts merged in the Freigericht failed to maintain their independence and imperial immediacy against the pressure of the surrounding territorial rulers: the empire pledged or forgave the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg and the lords of Eppstein .

In 1500 , the Roman-German King Maximilian I enfeoffed the Archbishop of Mainz and the Count of Hanau-Munzenberg together with the Freigericht, which they now administered as a condominium . With Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family died in 1736. The Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel was the heir of the Hanau-Münzenberg part of the state by virtue of a treaty . Whether his legacy also extended to Hanau's share in the condominium was heavily disputed in the following years between Kurmainz and Hessen-Kassel. The dispute ended in a compromise, the "party recession" of 1740, which provided for a real division of the condominium. However, it took until 1748 for the treaty to be implemented. The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 struck the Mömbris court of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , which only kept it for 13 years. In 1816 the now Grand Duchy of Hesse ceded the Mömbris court to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

area

The Mömbris 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: Mömbris . Munich 1968.
  • Josef Fächer: The territorial development in the area of ​​today's Mömbris 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 Mömbris . Aschaffenburg 1820.

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