Röllshausen Court

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The court Röllshausen was an administrative and judicial district of the monastery Haina , the aristocratic family Rückershausen , Schwertzell and the Landgraviate of Hesse from the 14th century to the 16th century .

Röllshausen was an old property in Fulda . In 1255 Arnold von Rückershausen was enfeoffed with the hereditary Meieramt . As part of the territorialization , the Röllshausen court was created in the 14th century. In addition to Röllshausen, it also included Röllshausen, Schönberg , Salmshausen and Röllhausen (desert). At the end of the 13th century, Fulda had already sold its goods to the Haina monastery in court. The Haina monastery acquired some shares in the court from the Ganerbenschaft , Hesse acquired a third of the court from Heinrich von Rückersbach in 1343. There was a dispute between the Haina monastery and the Rückershausen family regarding the exercise of the court, which was ended with a settlement in 1430.

In 1551 one of the two lines of the von Rückershausen family died out with Helwig von Rückershausen in the male line. However, the Fulda Abbey confirmed the continuation of the fief for half of the court to his son-in-law Hartmann Schleier. In 1576 the other line from Rückershausen also died out. Here, too, the son-in-law von Schwertzell received confirmation as a tenant. The court was thus a condominium between Schleier, Schwertzell and Hessen. In 1606 Christoph Schleier sold his third to the Hessian landgrave. In the course of the 16th century, Hesse succeeded in gaining high jurisdiction and sovereignty. In the Landgraviate of Hessen, the Röllshausen court was incorporated into the Neukirchen office.

literature

  • Fritz Adolf Brauer: Die Grafschaft Ziegenhain, 1934, pp. 80–83.