Courtiers
Höflingen is an abandoned settlement in the municipality of Rheinfelden in the Swiss canton of Aargau . The small village had around 80 to 100 inhabitants and was just under a kilometer south of the old town, above the Magdenerbach on the terrace of the Kapuzinerberg.
Höflingen is much older than the Rheinfelden, which was built in the 12th century, and goes back to the establishment of the Alemanni in the early Middle Ages. It was first mentioned in a document in 1272, when Hartmann and Heinrich von Kienberg sold a farm consisting of eight berths to a citizen of Rheinfeld. Zwing and Bann reached the Johanniterkommende Rheinfelden in several steps and were finally sold to the city in 1539 for 700 guilders . The courtiers were legally worse off than the city dwellers, and acceptance into city citizenship was extremely rare.
During the Waldshut War of 1468, Höflingen was burned down by the Confederates and then rebuilt. Between March 27 and August 19, 1634, during the Thirty Years' War , Swedish troops besieged Rheinfelden. They looted the entire area around the city. In Höflingen they caused such great damage that the inhabitants left the destroyed village and settled mainly in Magden , where they were church-owned. During the construction of the residential area on the Kapuzinerberg in the late 19th century, ruins and objects were uncovered, as was the construction of the A3 motorway in the 1960s .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Schib , community of Rheinfelden (Hrsg.): History of the city of Rheinfelden. 1961. pp. 155-158.
- ↑ Walter Hochreiter, Eva Gschwind, André Salvisberg , Dominik Sieber, Claudius Sieber-Lehmann : Inside, outside, there. History of the city of Rheinfelden . Ed .: City of Rheinfelden [Switzerland]. regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2014, ISBN 978-3-89735-800-3 , p. 89 .
- ↑ Stefan Gyr: Burned down and disappeared: exhibition reminds of the village of Höflingen. In: Aargauer Zeitung . April 4, 2014, accessed March 15, 2015 .