Lordship of Bretzenheim

Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
Lordship of Bretzenheim
coat of arms
Ruler / government	Lord, from 1789 Prince
Today's region / s	DE-RP
Parliament	Reichsfürstenrat , Secular Bank: Part of a curate vote of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Counts College (1665–1744)
Reich register	6 guilders (1771)
Reichskreis	Upper Rhine Empire Circle
District council	1 virile vote on the bench of the counts and gentlemen
Capitals / residences	Bretzenheim
Denomination / Religions	Catholic / Lutheran
Language / n	German
surface	440 km²
Residents	6,938 (1803)
Incorporated into	Busting 1795; Prussian Rhine Province 1815

The lordship of Bretzenheim was a smaller territory of the Holy Roman Empire on the Nahe (today the Bad Kreuznach district ). It was represented in the Bank of Counts and Lords in the Upper Rhine Empire and was elevated to the status of imperial principality in 1789. In 1795 the principality was occupied and smashed by the French as part of the coalition wars.

history

The place Bretzenheim was first mentioned in a document in 1057, when the then archbishop Anno II of Cologne gave the two villages of Winzenheim and Bretzenheim Richeza , the widow of the Polish king Mieszko II , as a fief. Until 1789, the Electorate of Cologne held the rulership of Bretzenheim, which from the beginning also included Winzenheim and later also Planig . Fiefdoms were later the Count Palatine near Rhine , followed by the Counts of Falkenstein in various lines, before Count Alexander II of Velen bought the rule in 1642 . In 1664 Emperor Leopold I raised Bretzenheim to free imperial rule . In 1669 he bought the villages Dasbach, Kettenbach and Hausen (near Idstein) from the barons of Cornberg . After Count Alexander IV von Velen died in 1733 without an heir, the Archbishopric of Cologne withdrew the fief and gave it to Count Ambrosius Franz von Virmont in 1734 , who also died in 1744 without an heir, after which Baron Ignaz Felix von Roll zu Bernau enfeoffed with Bretzenheim in 1747 has been. In 1772 he sold the rule for 300,000 guilders to Count Karl August von Heydeck , an illegitimate son of Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz . Karl August was elevated to imperial count in 1774 and imperial prince in 1789, so Bretzenheim rose from imperial rule to imperial principality . As early as 1795, however, the principality was occupied and broken up by the French as part of the coalition wars. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Bretzenheim was incorporated into the Prussian Rhine Province .

Web links

• History at bretzenheim.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching : New description of the earth . 3rd part. J. C. Bohn, Hamburg 1771, p. 1399
2. ^ Heinrich Berghaus: Germany for a hundred years. Leipzig 1861.
3. ^ History. Bretzenheim an der Nahe, accessed on August 22, 2019 . 
4. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Encyclopedia of the Lands of the Germans. (pdf, 6.1 MB) In: koeblergerhard.de. 8th edition, April 22, 2014, p. 150 , accessed on August 22, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Günther Ebersold: Karl August imperial prince of Bretzenheim. The political biography of an apolitical. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1350-6 .