Grauelsbaum
Grauelsbaum is a district of the city of Lichtenau in Baden-Württemberg .
history
middle Ages
The village Grauel tree was in office Lichtenau the rule Lichtenberg and was administered as part of the city Lichtenau, the end of the 13th Century was founded. Here the rulers owned a ferry and customs rights for traffic across the Rhine . In 1335, the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg divided the country. The office of Lichtenau - and thus Grauelsbaum - fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house.
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474) was the daughter of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), one of two heirs with claims to the rule of Lichtenberg . In 1458 she married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417, † 1480), who had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The office of Lichtenau belonged to the part of Hanau-Lichtenberg that the descendants of Philipp and Anna inherited.
Early modern age
Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran .
Count Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1628–1666) was assigned the office of Lichtenau for maintenance and residence by his father's will. Here he lived from around 1650 in the castle in Bischofsheim am Hohe Steg , took care of the reconstruction after the destruction of the Thirty Years War , encouraged the immigration of Swiss people and began building the infrastructure that had been destroyed, such as the schools.
After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, the inheritance - and with it the office of Lichtenau and the village of Grauelsbaum - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt .
Modern times
With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the office and the village were assigned to the newly formed Electorate of Baden in 1803 .
On January 1, 1975 Grauelsbaum was incorporated into Lichtenau.
literature
- Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
- Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
- Wilhelm Mechler: The territory of the Lichtenberger to the right of the Rhine . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 31-37.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knöpp, p. 13.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 100.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 115.
- ↑ Eyer, pp. 79f.
- ↑ Mechler, p. 36.
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Lichtenau: http://www.lichtenau-baden.de/index.php?id=51&publish%5Bsearch%5D=Grauelsbaum&publish%5Bstart%5D=2
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 483 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 7 ° 58 ′ 42.6 ″ E