Hœlschloch
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 55 ' N , 7 ° 50' E | |
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Hœlschloch ( German : Hölschloch , historically: Heideschloch ) was a village in the lordship of Lichtenberg in Alsace and is now part of the municipality of Surbourg .
history
middle Ages
Hölschloch was a fief of the Duchy of Lorraine to the Lords of Lichtenberg . During their reign it was assigned to the Wörth office, which was created in the 13th century. When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Wörth office - and thus also Hölschloch - came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch when it was divided.
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter as heir. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg. Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran . Philip V gave the powerful and Roman Catholic Duchy of Lorraine, which was feudal lord in Forstheim, an excuse to withdraw all of its fiefs from Hanau-Lichtenberg. In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied parts of the county and reversed the Reformation. Since Philip V was not up to the military superiority, he chose the legal route. At the trial before the Imperial Court of Justice, Lorraine was able to rely on the fact that, on the one hand, considerable areas of Zweibrücken-Bitsch were Lorraine fiefs and, on the other hand, the Counts of Leiningen had sold their inheritance claims to Lorraine in 1573. In 1604 and 1606 there was a contractual settlement between Hanau-Lichtenberg and Lorraine. It included a division and took into account the old treaties: The Bitsch rule and all fiefdoms reverted to Lorraine. The office of Lemberg , which had been an allod of the Zweibrücker counts, was assigned to Hanau-Lichtenberg. Hölschloch as a Lorraine fiefdom reverted to the duchy.
traffic
Hœlschloch has a breakpoint on the Vendenheim – Wissembourg railway line on its southern outskirts .
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).