Mansbach Court

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The court of Mansbach was an administrative and judicial district of the noble families Mansbach and Geyso under the suzerainty of the Hochstift Fulda .

history

The Mansbach family's possessions were probably originally allodies . There are no indications of the origin of the ownership rights from a ministerial relationship with Fulda. In 1369 and 1380 Mansbach Castle was referred to as Allod, and in 1454 it was first referred to as the Fulda fief . The legal status of the court was controversial and was the subject of a number of trials in which Fulda referred to the court as feudum oblatum , i.e. H. as a former allod, in which the Lords of Mansbach would have voluntarily taken a fiefdom relationship with Fulda in order to receive military protection.

In 1652 the originally bourgeois, Landgrave-Hessian Lieutenant General Johann Geyso , son of the Landgrave-Hessian rentmaster in Borken , Peter Geyso, bought half of the property of the von Mansbach, including Mansbach Castle. This half of the Mannsfeld dominion formed the Mansbach court. Geyso belonged to the Frankish imperial knighthood from 1653 . The court remained in the possession of the Geyso family until the end of the HRR .

In the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the court became part of the Principality of Nassau-Oranien-Fulda . Organizationally, it was run there as part of the Principality of Fulda and was called the Imperial Knighthood Court of Mansbach . With the establishment of the Rhine Confederation in 1806 it became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia and was assigned to the Werra department and in it to the Hersfeld district . As a result of the Congress of Vienna , Prussia briefly became part of the Electorate of Hesse in 1816 , where it was part of the Eiterfeld office .

scope

According to the homage protocol from 1738 , the court comprised Breitzbach , Buchenmühle , Glaam , Mansbach , Standorfsmühl and a share of little property .

literature

  • Anneliese Hofemann: Studies on the development of the territory of the imperial abbey of Fulda and its offices. 1958, p. 183.

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