County Hague

Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
County Hague
coat of arms
Location of the county and the adjacent Burgrain dominion
Form of rule	county
Ruler / government	Count
Today's region / s	DE-BY
Reichskreis	Bavarian Imperial Circle
Capitals / residences	Hague
Dynasties	Fraunberger , Wittelsbacher
Incorporated into	Kingdom of Bavaria

Hague Castle

The county Haag was from 1509 a free imperial county in today's counties Mühldorf , Erding , Rosenheim and Ebersberg , which in 1567 fell to the Wittelsbach. The county was divided into the five offices of Albaching, Mering, Kirchdorf, Schwindau and Rieden and also included the court brands Hampersberg, Schönbrunn , Armstorf , St. Wolfgang and Preisendorf.

history

The place Haag was mentioned for the first time around the year 980 as the seat of the free gentry family "de Haga". It is unclear what power the family had at that time.

Around 1200 the rule passed to the Gurren von Kirchdorf family (neighboring parish village), who called themselves Gurren von Haag . The lower floors of the residential tower of Burg Haag were probably built at that time .

The rise of the rule to an imperial county took place under a branch of the family of the Fraunbergers . In 1245 , after the Gurren von Haag died out, Emperor Friedrich II transferred Haag to Sigfrid von Fraunberg. At the same time, the "Comitat Haag" was confirmed the high level of jurisdiction as an imperial fief. In 1324 the town of Haag received the market rights "to the Hage" from Emperor Ludwig IV . George III von Fraunberg led a campaign against the Duchy of Bavaria-Landshut (the " ox war " ) from 1421 to 1422 , but it brought no countable successes.

In 1465, the Fraunbergers were raised from imperial feudal holders to imperial barons with imperial estates and customs rights. This increase in status was soon demonstrated by the expansion of Haag Castle into a modern, permanent castle. In 1509 the family became hereditary imperial counts . The Imperial County of Haag formed in this way was enclosed by the Duchy / Electorate of Bavaria; only in the west was the Burgrain rule , which belonged to the Freising monastery .

After the death of the last Fraunberger, Count Ladislaus von Fraunberg-Haag, the Bavarian Duke Albrecht V was enfeoffed with Haag in 1567 . His son, Duke Wilhelm V , gave the county to his brother Ferdinand von Bayern in 1588 , on the occasion of his morganatic marriage to Maria Pettenbeck, who came from there. Their descendants formed the Wittelsbach branch of the " Counts of Wartenberg ", which went out in 1736. In 1596 there was the Hague Peasant Uprising , in which all 1500 peasants took part and demanded the restoration of the old Grafschafter rights. The uprising was put down. Nevertheless, until 1804 , Haag remained a “free imperial county not incorporated into the Bavarian Courlands ”, although it was dominated by Bavaria . Elector Maximilian I gave it to his brother Albrecht of Bavaria in 1650 in exchange for the Landgraviate of Leuchtenberg , which he had married and which the Elector wanted to give to his second son Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus .

In 1777 the county of Andreas Hadik von Futak was subordinated. It was not until the mediatization in 1804 that the county of Haag finally came to Bavaria.

literature

• Rudolf Münch: The big book of the county of Haag. History Association of the Reichsgrafschaft Haag eV, 1984.
• Franz Dionys Reithofer : Chronological history of the Haag market in Bavaria, with one more appendix; from original manuscripts . 1818 ( e-copy ).
• Bernhard Zöpf: Brief history of the former imperial county of Haag . Munich 1857 ( e-copy ).
• Bernhard Zöpf: Historical news about the former noble seats Schwindkirchen , Schiltern , Giebing and Schönbrunn , Dulzheim, Lappach and Burgau in the royal district court in Haag . Munich 1863 ( e-copy ).

Web links

• Historical research by the Hague History Society
• Burg Haag on burgseite.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ To transfer to the Wittelsbach branch of the Counts of Wartenberg