Reign of Biberbach

Tower of Burg Markt from the 16th century

The rule of Biberbach in the area of today's districts of Augsburg and Dillingen on the Danube was a rule in the Holy Roman Empire .

history

The rule of Biberbach with its seat at Burg Markt in Markt , today a district of Biberbach in the district of Augsburg ( Bavaria ), is first handed down in the 11th century. In the 14th century, the rule with Eisenbrechtshofen , Feigenhofen , Langenreichen and Prettelshofen belonged to the Pappenheimers . In 1514, Hans Marschall von Biberbach sold the rule to Emperor Maximilian I. The Biberbach rule was soon acquired by Jakob Fugger to repay the emperor's debts. As part of the mediatization in 1806, the Biberbach rule came under the sovereignty of Bavaria.

Albertshofen (15 properties), Anzenhofen (1 property), Baletshof (1 property), Biberbach (85 properties), Dennhof (1 property), Dennhofmühle (1 property), Ehekirchmühle (1 property), Eichelhof (1 property), Eisenbrechtshofen ( 29 properties), Feigenhofen (27 properties), Furtmühle (1 property), Kleemeisterhaus (1 property), Langenreichen (58 properties), Langenreichermühle (1 property), Markt (61 properties), Prettelshofen (28 properties), Zeisenried (1 property ), Customs house (1 property)

Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 67.