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The rulership Bruch was a territory in the Duchy of Luxembourg that existed until the end of the 18th century. It was named after the castle Bruch , which is located in what is now the municipality of Bruch in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Associated localities

The rulership Bruch was part of the Luxembourg administrative district Quartier Bitburg . The other parts of the villages Bruch and Dörbach belonged to the Electorate of Trier ( Wittlich Office ).

history

The rulership of Bruch, first mentioned in a document in 1374, was at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries in the possession of the Archbishopric Trier , which also held fiefdom over it. Around 1655 the rule of Count von Criechingen passed to Wolfgang Heinrich von Metternich-Bourscheid and in 1690 it came to the Baron von Kesselstadt through an heir daughter . The duchy of Luxembourg had sovereignty .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . Under the French administration , the area was assigned to the canton of Dudeldorf in the department of forests .

Today all localities with the exception of Beilingen and Speicher belong to the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich ; Beilingen and Speicher are now part of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province: The map of 1789 , 2nd volume, Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, pp. 23, 40
  2. ^ Ernst Hermann Joseph Münch : Das Großherzogthum Luxemburg , Vieweg, 1831, p. 21 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 2, Trier, Lintz, 1846, p. 29 ( Google Books )