Reign of Dürkastel
The rule Dürkastel ( French Seigneurie de Château-Voué ) was a rule in Lorraine , which was issued by the bishops of Metz as an inheritance . After the final cession of the diocese of Metz to France in 1648 by the Peace of Westphalia , the lords of Dürkastel became vassals of the King of France.
territory
The Dürkastel lordship included Dürkastel (Chateau-Voué) with Dédeling, Sotzeling , Wuisse , Kœcking and Val-de-Bride , as well as Hampont , Obreck , Burlioncourt , Conthil , Lidrequin , Virming etc.
The castle in Chateau-Voué formed the center of the rule.
The Lords of Dürkastel
In the 14th century, the Seigneurie Château-Voué was owned by the Morsperch de Torcheville family . In 1325, the village was mentioned as Chastel Le Wouweit in a document relating to the War of the Four Lords (1324-1326). The Seigneurs Rodolphe and Renault of Château-Voué supported the city of Metz in that war. In 1333, Guillaume de Torcheville and the Bishop of Metz renounced their rights with regard to Chaisteil vowey and Chastel Voiley (Château-Voué) in favor of the Duke of Lorraine . In the further course of the 14th century, the Guermange family appeared as seigneurs of the village. The Guermanges were vassals of the Morsperch de Torcheville.
By marriage, part of the Morsperch de Torcheville's seigneurism fell in 1404 to Jean de Pfaffenhofen, the scion of an Alsatian aristocratic family. As early as 1415 Jean sold his part (five eighths) of the castle to Henri Hase von Dievelich. In 1445 Henri Hase von Dievelich owned three eighths of the castle. He died around 1460. His daughter had died before him, she had been married twice, first with Damian von Helmstatt and then with Henri von Rathsamhausen and had left five children. While the two daughters were being settled, the three sons each received a share of the castle in 1461.
During the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477), Charles the Bold's troops besieged the castle in 1475 and set it on fire.
The von Helmstatt family was a branch of the Göler von Ravensburg from the Kraichgau . For seven generations it had the seat of a branch line, which received further fiefs from the bishops in Metz , including in Hingsingen and Sarralbe , and owned and owned rights in Saarbrücken and in various villages. In 1591 half of the Dürkastel rule came to Johann Philipp von Helmstatt , whose five sons sold the property to Wilhelm von Hunolstein in 1599. The Bailiffs of Hunolstein held Dürkastel for a total of nine generations until the French Revolution .
literature
- L. Jean: Les seigneurs de Chateauvoué 966-1793 . Crépin-Leblond, Nancy 1897 (French, in Archive.org ).