County of Hohengeroldseck

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Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
County of Hohengeroldseck
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Alternative names Imperial rule Hohengeroldseck
Arose from Reign of Hohengeroldseck
Ruler / government Count
Today's region / s DE-BW
Parliament 1 curiate vote on the Swabian Count's Bank
Reichskreis Swabian Empire
District council 1 curial vote on the count's bench
Capitals / residences Seelbach
Dynasties von der Leyen
Denomination / Religions Roman Catholic
Language / n German
surface 126 km²
Residents 4,500 (1,800)
Incorporated into Principality of the Leyen (1806); Grand Duchy of Baden (1819)
See also Gentlemen von Geroldseck

The County of Hohengeroldseck was a county of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , which was ruled by the von der Leyen family. The county existed from 1711 until the end of the empire in 1806. From 1806 to 1813, the territory was a member of the Rhine Confederation as the Principality of von der Leyen .

territory

The county was near Lahr in the Black Forest and consisted of the main town of Seelbach , Hohengeroldseck Castle and the villages listed below. It covered 126 km² with around 4 500 inhabitants around 1800. The county belonged to the Swabian Empire . The county bordered the imperial cities of Gengenbach and Zell am Harmersbach in the north and the principality of Fürstenberg in the east . In the south, the margraviate Hochberg and the office of Ettenheim of the bishopric of Strasbourg were the neighbors and in the west lay the Nassau rule Lahr and the Baden-Baden rule Mahlberg .

history

Hohengeroldseck Castle
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Hohengeroldseck Castle in 1486 during the siege by Philip the Sincere
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Hohengeroldseck Castle 1645 (after Grimmelshausen )


Hohengeroldseck Castle ruins

The Lords of Geroldseck can be identified in the Ortenau since the beginning of the 12th century . After the death of Mr. Walther von Geroldseck in 1277, there were divisions due to inheritance disputes. In 1426 the area of ​​the Lahr-Mahlberg line fell to the Counts of Moers-Saar Werden and came to Baden until 1497 . The territories of Heinrich von Geroldseck, who from then on called himself Count von Veldenz because of his marriage to Agnes von Veldenz , came under Austrian feudal rule in 1504.

Anna Maria von Hohen-Geroldseck († 1649) was after the death of her father, Jakob von Hohen-Geroldseck († 1634), the only heiress of the von Geroldseck family . The Habsburgs viewed the entire Hohengeroldseck rule as a fief that had reverted to them and ignored the heiress' claims to the allodial property contained therein ; the emperor now enfeoffed the counts of Kronberg with rule. Anna Maria married the margrave of Baden-Durlach , Friedrich V. In Article IV, § 27 of the Peace Treaty of Osnabrück it was stipulated that Anna Maria should be given the goods she claimed upon presentation of real documents. Anna Maria appointed Friedrich as her heir, but he, too, could not come into possession of the inherited allodial property until the end of his life, as the Habsburgs and the power they enfeoffed Adolf Otto Graf von und zu Kronberg repeatedly postponed the execution of the contractual provisions and lodged new appeals. Already in 1692 the Counts of Kronberg died out with Adolf Otto in the male line.

Now, after an unsuccessful attempt by the Margrave of Baden, Friedrich VII. Magnus , to annex the area (1692–1697), Hohengeroldseck was ruled as a Habsburg fiefdom by the von der Leyen dynasty from 1697 onwards . In 1711 it received the dignity of imperial counts and was accepted into the Swabian imperial counts' college. The rule became imperial rule with a seat and vote in the Reichstag.

Thanks to the relationship with Arch Chancellor Dalberg , Hohengeroldseck initially remained independent during the Napoleonic period, but the area did not experience any expansion. Now completely surrounded by Baden territory, Hohengeroldseck became the smallest member of the Rhine Confederation under Philipp Franz in 1806 as the Principality of von der Leyen .

After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , Prince Philipp, who had lived in Paris for years , did not join the coalition led by Prussia , Russia and Austria . Therefore Hohengeroldseck was drafted on December 12th, 1813 as "ownerless land" and placed under the administration of the victorious powers. When Prince Philipp later tried to join the coalition, this was now denied him.

Hohengeroldseck came to Austria through the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . At the Aachen Congress in 1818, it came to the Grand Duchy of Baden through an exchange of territory : Baden received Hohengeroldseck, in return it ceded the Steinfeld office to Austria, which in turn left it to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Hohengeroldseck was handed over to Baden on November 25, 1819. The area was initially administered as the "Provisional Office Hohengeroldseck" until it was added to the Lahr Office on March 1, 1831.

List of the Imperial Counts of Hohengeroldseck

Reign Surname Born Died ancestry
1705-1739 Karl Kaspar July 19, 1655 November 30, 1739 Barons von der Leyen-Adendorf
1739-1760 Friedrich Ferdinand January 7, 1709 February 16, 1760 Son of the previous one
1760-1775 Franz Karl August 26, 1736 September 26, 1775 Son of the previous one
1775-1806 / 13 Philipp Franz August 1, 1766 November 23, 1829 Son of the previous one

Since Philipp Franz was only 9 years old when his father died in 1775, his mother Marianne von der Leyen took over the reign from 1775 to 1793.

economy

Fruit growing and arable farming were practiced in the county. In the cattle industry, the pigs were in the foreground. In the hamlet of Geroldseck there was a lead mine and in Emersbach there was silver mining in the St. Lendlins mine.

places

local community Remarks coat of arms
Seelbach Capital of the county with about 500 inhabitants around 1800; with Dautenstein Castle and Seelbach Castle , as well as Litschental and Steinbach; today's district of Wittelbach did not belong to the county Coat of arms Seelbach.png
Kuhbach with Brudertal Coat of arms-kuhbach.jpg
Prinzbach with Emersbach Coat of arms Prinzbach.png
Reichenbach with Eichberg, Gereut, Giesenhof, Langeck, Poche, Schindelhöfe Coat of arms Reichenbach (Lahr) .png
Schoenberg Coat of arms Schoenberg (Seelbach) .png
Schuttertal DEU Schuttertal COA.svg

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Phillip Ludwig Hermann Röder: Geographisches Statistisch-Topographisches Lexikon von Schwaben . Ulm 1800, Volume 1, Col. 702
  2. ^ Peace treaty in the Internet portal "Westphalian History"
  3. ↑ s. Kohler p. 97
  4. ↑ Entry on discover regional studies online - leobw
  5. ↑ Entry on discover regional studies online - leobw
  6. ^ Phillip Ludwig Hermann Röder: Geographisches Statistisch-Topographisches Lexikon von Schwaben . Ulm 1800, Volume 1, Col. 702-704
  7. ↑ old coats of arms; the coats of arms of the new unitary municipalities are not used
  8. ↑ Seelbach . Discover regional studies online - leobw
  9. ^ Phillip Ludwig Hermann Röder: Geographisches Statistisch-Topographisches Lexikon von Schwaben . Ulm 1801, Volume 2, Col. 684/685
  10. ↑ Litschental . Discover regional studies online - leobw
  11. ↑ Kuhbach . Discover regional studies online - leobw
  12. ↑ Brudertal . Discover regional studies online - leobw
  13. ↑ Prinzbach . Discover regional studies online - leobw
  14. ↑ Entry on discover regional studies online - leobw
  15. ↑ Reichenbach . Discover regional studies online - leobw
  16. ↑ Eichberg . Discover regional studies online - leobw
  17. ↑ Schönberg . Discover regional studies online - leobw
  18. ↑ Schuttertal . Discover regional studies online - leobw