Somborn court
The court Somborn was a medieval administrative unit for a number of villages, which together with the courts Alzenau , Hörstein and Moembris the Freigericht Alzenau formed.
Function and history
The Somborn court was originally an association of villages based on self-administration and cooperative structures. In the course of territorialization , however, the courts merged in the Freigericht did not succeed in maintaining their independence and their imperial immediacy against the pressure of the surrounding territorial lords, especially since the empire gave up its rights to these territorial lords over the course of time. In the early modern period , the Somborn 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 .
With the "participation recession " of 1740, the free court was divided between the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel - as heir to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg - and Kurmainz , who had administered the area as a condominium for 240 years . Hessen received the court Somborn without Albstadt as a fiefdom from Kurmainz and a compensation payment. In return, the Landgraviate had to guarantee the undisturbed exercise of the Roman Catholic faith for the subjects and Kurmainz had to be entitled to the rest of the free court.
area
The Somborn court comprised the villages
- Albstadt
- Altenmittlau (1740 to Hessen-Hanau and to the Altenhaßlau office )
- Bernbach (1740 to Hessen-Hanau and to the Altenhaßlau office)
- Horbach (1740 to Hessen-Hanau and to the Altenhaßlau office)
- Hüttelngesäß (1740 to Hessen-Hanau and to the Altenhaßlau office)
- Neuses (1740 to Hessen-Hanau and to the Altenhaßlau office)
- Somborn (1740 to Hessen-Hanau and to the Altenhaßlau office)
- Trages (1740 to Hessen-Hanau and to the Altenhaßlau office)
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. 149 ff .: No. 5, 8, 10, 16, 18, 22, 28, 29, 43, 48, 54, 57, 79, 85, 105, 111, 114 , 121, 129, 131.
- Regenerus Engelhard: Description of the earth of the Hessian Lands Casselischen Antheiles with notes from history and from documents explained . Part 2, Cassel 1778. ND 2004, p. 788 ff.
- Josef Fächer: Alzenau . Munich 1968.
- Josef Fächer: The territorial development in the area of today's Alzenau 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 Alzenau . Aschaffenburg 1820.