County of Vaduz

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Castle Vaduz
Parish church of St. Nicholas and Gutenberg Castle in Balzers County Vaduz

The county of Vaduz was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , which is today in the Principality of Liechtenstein and roughly corresponds to today's Oberland constituency for elections to the state parliament .

history

The County of Vaduz was created in 1342 by dividing the estate as part of the County of Werdenberg . Hartmann III is the first count . from Werdenberg-Sargans . The county was granted imperial immediacy in 1396 after the claims of the Counts of Werdenberg had ended four years earlier. The Count's line of Vaduz died out in 1416 and the Barons of Brandis took over the rule.

From 1507 the Counts of Sulz ruled Vaduz as well as the rule of Schellenberg north of it . They sold both to the Counts of Hohenems in 1613 . Because of the years of excessive witch hunts and the illegal appropriation of the property of the executed , the execution of the Reich against the ruling Count Ferdinand Karl von Hohenems (1650–1686) was initiated on May 12, 1681 and the Kempten prince Rupert was commissioned to carry it out. The count was arrested in 1683 on imperial orders, lost the rulership by order of the Reichshofrat on June 22, 1684 and was at the same time obliged to return the confiscated property to the bereaved. Since the heavily indebted Count House was not in a position to do this, Ferdinand Karl's successor, his brother Jakob Hannibal (1653–1730), was again subject to compulsory administration, with which the Kempten prince was again commissioned in 1692. After the surviving dependents and other creditors had been urged to contract half of their claims, the Schellenberg rule was sold to Prince Johann Adam Andreas von Liechtenstein for 115,000 guilders in 1699 and, after lengthy negotiations, in 1712 also the county of Vaduz for 290,000 guilders . The wealthy and influential princes of Liechtenstein had long been looking for a territory that was not immediately part of the empire in order to create the prerequisites for elevation to the imperial princehood . They achieved this goal when Emperor Charles VI. raised the two territories to the Principality of Liechtenstein in 1719 .

literature

  • Peter Kaiser : History of the Principality of Liechtenstein . Chur 1847, DNB  941604934 .
  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 4th, completely revised edition. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35865-9 , p. 646.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liechtenstein National Library, Roger Sablonier The Werdenberg partition contract of 1342
  2. ^ State archive Office for Culture, Principality of Liechtenstein
  3. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister: Werdenberg (-Sargans-Vaduz), Hartmann III. (I.) of. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein . December 31, 2011 , accessed May 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bernd Marquard: 122 witch trials, the highest imperial jurisdiction and a count deposition. The imperial immediate county of Vaduz for abuse of power before the Reichshofrat (1678-1712) . In: Andreas Bauer and Karl HL Welker (eds.): Europe and its regions. 2000 years of legal history . Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-13804-2 , pp. 377 ( limited preview in Google Book search). .
  5. ↑ Otto Seger: The last act in the drama of the witch trials in the county of Vaduz and rule Schellenberg . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein . tape 57 . Vaduz 1957, p. 165 ( PDF document; 2.55 MB ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
  6. ↑ Seger: The last act in the drama of the witch trials . 1957, p. 164 .
  7. ↑ Otto Seger: Rupert von Bodman, Prince Abbot of Kempten, in his work for our country . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein . tape 78 . Vaduz 1978, p. 195 ( eliechtensteinensia.li [accessed on July 13, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Seger: Rupert von Bodman . 1978, p. 197 .
  9. ↑ Seger: Rupert von Bodman . 1978, p. 200 .
  10. ↑ Seger: Rupert von Bodman . 1978, p. 198 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 8 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 18"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight  /  223068