Sternberg county

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Sternberg Castle

The County of Sternberg was a medieval and early modern territory east of Lemgo . It comprised the present-day communities of Barntrup and Extertal without Silixen, as well as the eastern districts of Schwelentrup, Humfeld and Bega of the present-day community of Dörentrup . From 1812 to 1879, this area (with the exception of the city of Barntrup, which was free of charge) was an administrative unit of the Principality of Lippe as the Sternberg-Barntrup district .

history

The area had been owned by a branch line of the Counts of Schwalenberg since around 1240 . Heinrich I von Schwalenberg built the castle (Neu-) Sternberg . This was named after the Schwalenberg coat of arms. Since 1243 he called himself Edelherr de Sterrenbergh and his emblem was an eight-pointed red star on a gold background, the so-called Sternberg star . This star (or part of it) is still present in some city coats of arms of the places of the former county, such as in those of Bösingfeld , Barntrup and Alverdissen , which are all three urban foundations of the Counts of Sternberg.

Land ownership and rights lay mainly in the northwest of the county of Schwalenberg. In addition, there were the bailiwicks of Herford Abbey and Möllenbeck Monastery , fiefs of the Archbishops of Cologne and pledges. The core formed the Extertal. The main town was Bösingfeld . The place was elevated to a city in 1252, but lost this status again in the 15th century. The counts had Barntrup rebuilt between 1317 and 1359 and raised Alverdissen to town in 1370 . The cities in particular were protected by some castles, such as Alverdissen Castle, which was destroyed in 1424.

In 1377 the last count, Heinrich the V of Sternberg, sold the property to the Counts of Schaumburg . Count Johann von Sternberg finally waived his right of repurchase in 1391. The Schaumburgers have pledged parts of the County of Sternberg, including the areas around Barntrup and Salzuflen , to the noble lords of the Lippe as early as 1400 . The rest of the county followed a few years later. The rulers of Lippe successfully repelled attempts by the Schaumburgs to return them in the following centuries. This was the case around 1424 when Count Adolf IX. von Schaumburg tried to get the area back by force. This led to a serious feud in which, among other things, the church and castle in Bösingfeld were destroyed. Ultimately, the winner was Simon IV zur Lippe .

  • Seal of
    Heinrich I,
    Count von Sternberg,
    1252

  • Seal of
    Heinrich III,
    Count von Sternberg,
    1306


  • Alverdissen municipal coat of arms
    until January 1st, 1969


  • Barntrup city ​​coat of arms
    since January 1, 1969

In the 15th century the Lipper pledged the area to various noble families themselves. Between 1558 and 1583 it was owned by the Lippe branch line Lippe-Spiegelberg-Pyrmont. After the death of Count Simon VI. zur Lippe in 1613 Barntrup with Alverdissen was ceded to Lippe-Brake. Between 1648 and 1652 Johann Bernhard was the owner of the County of Sternberg until he took over the rule in the whole of Lippe. The same was the case with Hermann Adolf .

After the end of the Schaumburg family, who were still legally the owners until the end, there was a dispute over the succession. In 1640, the Paderborn bishopric claimed overlordship over Lippe. A lengthy legal process followed. This ended only in 1788 with a settlement. Their possession was confirmed to the Counts of Lippe.

Within the county of Lippe, the Sternberg office corresponded to the old county since the 16th century . Sternberg Castle was the seat of the bailiff. The Lipper themselves pledged this area to the Electorate of Hanover between 1733 and 1771 .

After that, the area officially belonged to the state of Lippe and has been part of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1947 . Today most of the former county belongs to the municipality of Extertal . As the only remaining city in the area of ​​the former County of Sternberg, Barntrup still has the (half) Sternberg star in its city coat of arms (in addition to the incorporated town of Alverdissen).

literature

  • Handbook of the historical sites of Germany. Vol. 3: North Rhine-Westphalia . Stuttgart 1970, pp. 703f.
  • Alfred Bruns: County of Sternberg . In: Gerhard Taddey (Ed.), Lexicon of German History. 2. revised Ed., Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-520-80002-0 , pp. 1197f.
  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 4th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35865-9 , p. 604ff.
  • Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: Contributions to the genealogy and history of the extinct counts of Sternberg . In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity (Westphalia) Vol. 9 (1846) pp. 45–138

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Heimatverein Barntrup eV @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heimatverein-barntrup.de
  2. ^ Noctiluca seu lucerna iustitiae, & veritatis Lippiensis objecta nyctalopae & fabulosis umbris Paderbornensibus ad causam Paderborn contra Lippe. Concerning the Graffschäft Sternberg, Lippiense Municipium Saltz-Uffln, Castrum Barentrup, and the Vogtey Mueddenhorst. Lemgo 1695 ( LLB Detmold )
  3. ^ Heinrich Christian von Selchow : Thorough probation of the rightful of the high counts house Lippe on the rule Sternberg and the other supposedly belonging goods together with a refutation of the claims made against it by Episcopal Paderborn. Lemgo 1783 ( LLB Detmold )

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Coordinates: 52 ° 3 '12.2 "  N , 9 ° 2' 56.9"  E