Lordship of Babenhausen

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The rule of Babenhausen was an area south of the Main , around the eponymous Babenhausen in today's Hesse , which was first in the high Middle Ages in the possession of the Lords of Hagen-Münzenberg , later the Lords and Counts of Hanau .

middle Ages

Adelheid von Munzenberg , daughter of Ulrich I von Munzenberg , married Reinhard I von Hanau before 1245 (the exact year is not known) . Among other things, she brought parts of the Babenhausen rulership with her, which since then belonged to the Hanau rulership as an allod , later to the Hanau county and then to the Hanau-Lichtenberg county .

When Ullrich II von Hagen-Münzenberg died in 1255 without leaving any heirs entitled to inherit, the rich inheritance fell to his seven sisters, six of whom had married aristocrats, most of whom were wealthy in the Wetterau . One of them was Reinhard I. von Hanau. With this Munzenberg inheritance , further property from the area around Hain in der Dreieich came to the House of Hanau, but also to other noble families.

Early modern age

The closed area around the city of Babenhausen, which came mainly from the marriage estate of Adelheid von Munzenberg, was consolidated into the Babenhausen office by the lords and counts of Hanau in the process of territorialization and the formation of state sovereignty in the second half of the 15th century . The territories and rights from the Munzenberg inheritance, on the other hand, consisted of a conglomerate of rights, sovereignties and very different authorizations. The Hanau lords and counts also had to share these with other powers. Above all, Kurmainz should be mentioned here, who bought the large part of Eppstein from the inheritance in 1425. But the Counts of Isenburg are also involved here. This conglomerate was called “ Herrschaft Babenhausen ” (as opposed to “ Amt Babenhausen ”) by the Count's Hanau administration . In practice, this rule was administered by the same officials based in the city of Babenhausen.

In 1684 the Hanauian rights in Ober-Roden , which belonged to the Babenhausen rule, were transferred to Kurmainz as part of a larger area swap between the county of Hanau and Kurmainz .

Duration

The Babenhausen rule included rights in

literature

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