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| local community | Berstett | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 42 ' N , 7 ° 37' E | |
| Post Code | 67370 | |
| Incorporation | 1972 | |
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Gimbrett is now a district of the French municipality of Berstett in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
history
middle Ages
In the Middle Ages it was an independent village. Already at the beginning of the 13th century it belonged to the Lords of Lichtenberg as an allod . It was in the Buchsweiler office , which was created in the early 14th century as the office of the Lichtenberg rule . In 1335 the land was divided between the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Gimbrett fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house. 1398 was Gimbrett part of the deposit mass, the dowry of Hildegard von Lichtenberg when she married Count Simund alarm clock Zweibrücken-Bitsch guaranteed.
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), daughter of Ludwig V. von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), and one of two heirs with claims to the rule, married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen in 1458 (* 1417; † 1480). He had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Buchsweiler office - and thus also Gimbrett - belonged to the part of Hanau-Lichtenberg that Anna's descendants inherited. The local coat of arms makes direct reference to the coat of arms of the County of Hanau .
Modern times
Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran .
With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Buchsweiler office came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, Hanau-Lichtenberg - and with it the Buchsweiler office - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , Gimbrett became French. In 1798 it had 222 inhabitants. In 1972 the municipalities of Berstett , Gimbrett , Reitwiller and Rumersheim merged to form the new large municipality of Berstett.
Attractions
- Evangelical Lutheran Church
literature
- Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
- Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eyer, pp. 53,111.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
- ↑ Eyer, pp. 79f.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 107.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ↑ See: Kathrin Ellwardt: Lutherans between France and the Reich: Church buildings in the Alsatian offices of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg under Johann Reinhard III. and Louis IX. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2016, pp. 18–59 (32f).