Beichlingen county

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Beichlingen Castle, 2006

The county of Beichlingen was a German county in Thuringia . It existed until the beginning of the 16th century.

history

The county, the center of which was Beichlingen Castle , was owned by the counts of the same name, who had come under the suzerainty of the Landgraves of Thuringia. They also owned larger areas on the Hainleite , the Kyffhäuser , the southern Harz and the Goldenen Aue .

Since the middle of the 14th century, the Counts of Beichlingen lost their influence. So they sold Heringen Castle around 1330 . Due to increasing financial problems, the Counts of Beichlingen were forced to pledge parts of the ancestral county of Beichlingen for profit.

On April 25, 1448, Duke Wilhelm III. von Sachsen, as a feudal lord, gave his consent to the pledging of parts of the former county of Beichlingen by the heavily indebted Count Günther and Hans von Beichlingen to the related Counts Botho zu Stolberg and Heinrich von Schwarzburg. With the latter, they owed 22,000 Rhenish guilders due to the devastation that broke out in the course of the Saxon Fratricidal War in 1446 , until the repayment of which they used the following castles and villages as pledge: Frohndorf, Groß- and Wenigenorlishausen, Groß- and Kleinneuhausen, Ellersleben , Bachra, Backleben, Rettgenstedt, Battgendorf, Dermsdorf, Schillingstedt, Altenbeichlingen, Hemleben and Hauteroda. In addition, in 1448 the annual income from the city of Kölleda was pledged.

After the death of Count Günther von Beichlingen in 1454, the aforementioned properties were transferred to the Stolberg and Schwarzburg Counts, because on March 19, 1457, Duke Wilhelm III enfeoffed. von Sachsen the Count Heinrich von Schwarzburg and Count Heinrich zu Stolberg together with those fiefs and goods that they had bought from Count Hans von Beichlingen for 22,550 Rhenish guilders. The Stolberg-Schwarzburg community rule Frohndorf was formed from the former Beichlingen holdings. After Schwarzburg had sold his share in 1468, Frohndorf remained in the sole possession of Stolberg.

In 1519, Count Adam von Beichlingen sold the rest of the county of Beichlingen and the castle to the realm chamber keeper Hans von Werthern on Wiehe and Werther , thus initiating the final dissolution of the county, which was integrated into the Electorate of Saxony .

literature

  • W. Rein: The last counts of Beichlingen , in: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Antiquity , 1854, 1st volume, pp. 381–387.
  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. Munich 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regesta Stolbergica , p. 457, no. 1366.
  2. LASA , H 1, Uk No. 20.