Reign of Bourscheid
The rule Bourscheid (also rule Burscheid ) was a territory in the Duchy of Luxembourg that existed until the end of the 18th century. It was named after Bourscheid Castle , which was located in what is now the municipality of Burscheid in Luxembourg .
Associated localities
According to a comprehensive overview of the different parts of the Duchy of Luxembourg, twelve villages belonged to the rule at the time of the French occupation. The historian Fabricius gives the following structure:
- Ban Bourscheid
- Bourscheid (today a municipality in Luxembourg )
- Come on, Scheidel
- Michelau (partly)
- Welscheid
- Bürden (today part of Erpeldingen , Luxembourg)
- Warken (now part of Ettelbrück , Luxembourg)
- Ban Kahler
- Kahler (today part of Garnich , Luxembourg)
- Ban Schankweiler
- Holsthum (today a local parish in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate )
- Schankweiler with the Schankweiler Klause (today a local parish in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate)
According to another source, the towns of Buschfeld, Hohscheid, Schlinder and Wirscheiterhof also belonged to the rulership.
history
The Burscheidt rule was first mentioned in a document in 1233. With regard to the ownership structure up to the end of the 18th century, the history of the Bourscheid rule is closely linked to the history of Bourscheid Castle . The duchy of Luxembourg had sovereignty , after the administrative reorganization of the duchy belonging to Austria by Maria Theresa , the rule belonged to the Diekirch district .
In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . Under French administration , the area was assigned to the Arrondissement Diekirch in the department of forests . The ban Schankweiler with the communities Holsthum and Schankweiler came to the canton Vianden , the rest of the area to the canton Diekirch .
A participant in the Congress of Vienna agreements reached communities Holsthum and Schankweiler came to the Kingdom of Prussia and were 1,816 Bitburg in Trier assigned. The other municipalities came to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Hermann Joseph Münch : Das Großherzogthum Luxemburg , Vieweg, 1831, p. 22 ( Google Books )
- ^ A b Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, pp. 26, 44
- ↑ a b Clomes: Attempt at a statistical-geographical description of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , Schmit-Bruck, 1840, p. 5 ( Google Books )
- ^ Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 2, Trier, Lintz, 1846, p. 28 ( Google Books )
- ^ Dictionnaire universel, geographique, statistique, historique et politique de la France , Paris 1804, p. 496 ( Google Books )