Dagstuhl reign

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Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
Dagstuhl reign
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Arose from Kurtrier
Ruler / government Mr
Today's region / s DE-SL
Reich register 1 man on horseback, 1 man on foot, 16 guilders
Reichskreis Upper Rhine Empire Circle
District council Bank of the Counts and Lords
Capitals / residences Dagstuhl , from 1758 Wadern
Dynasties Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl ; Oettingen-Baldern
Language / n German
surface 4 km² (1801)
Residents 4000 (1801)
Incorporated into French department de la Sarre 1801; Prussian Rhine Province 1815


The rule Dagstuhl (also written Dachstuhl ) was an imperial immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . It was represented with a seat and a vote at the Upper Rhine district assembly, where it was represented by the senior of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl .

Emergence

The area of ​​the later Dagstuhl rule came to the Archdiocese of Trier through a donation from Charlemagne in 802 . In the dispute between the Dukes of Lorraine and the Archdiocese, it was largely able to become independent. In 1270 a knight Boemund from the family of the noble lords of Saarbrücken , who also called himself "von Dagstuhl", was mentioned for the first time . He was the Trier burgrave of Grimburg and built Dagstuhl Castle . It was located in today's area of ​​the city of Wadern in Saarland . While the castle was a Trier fiefdom , the rest of the rule was allodial property and imperial direct .

The descendants of the knight Boemund died out in the male line in 1375. The rule was therefore divided among the heirs, and a quarter each came to the von Flersheim , von Rollingen , von Kriechingen and von Fleckenstein families . The rule of Dagstuhl was in the undivided possession of these heirs .

territory

The rule was divided into four high court districts :

Dues to the empire

In the register of the empire, the Dagstuhl rulership had been assessed since 1559 with one man on horseback and one on foot, or 16 guilders. The owners of Dagstuhl contributed 10 Reichsthaler 73 Kreuzers every six months to the upkeep of the Reich Chamber of Commerce (1719).

Historical development

Because of their share in Dagstuhl, the Lords of Fleckenstein took part in the Diets of 1551, 1559, 1566 and 1594. A Kurtrier suzerainty has been proven since 1600 .

Between 1616 and 1625 the family of Sötern acquired the shares of several steps Ganerben , most recently that of the last male member of the family Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl, George II. The 1623 Archbishop and Elector of the archdiocese Trier elected Philipp Christoph von Sötern could as lord his To give family members the consent in 1634 that a Fideikommiss of his family was formed from the rule .

In the years 1690 to 1697 this entails fell to the Counts of Oettingen-Baldern through marriage and inheritance . This branch of the family was then called von Oettingen and Sötern. The last count, Josef Anton von Öttingen-Sötern, died in 1778. The inheritance of the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein , who were entitled to inheritance according to the house laws , was contested by a relative of the last count of Öttingen-Sötern, Countess Colloredo. There was a trial before the Imperial Councilor. The decisions of the Reichshofrat, which were favorable to the Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein, were not made until 1791 and 1799. In the meantime, Dagstuhl had been occupied by revolutionary France in 1793 during the First Coalition War and was lost to France by the German Empire in 1801 through the Treaty of Lunéville .

The line Oettingen-Wallerstein received in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 former church property in Bavaria as compensation for their lost rights to Dagstuhl. As a result of the Congress of Vienna , the Dagstuhl dominion fell to Prussia in 1815 as part of what would later become the Rhine Province . In 1947 it became part of the Saarland .

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus, Germany for a Hundred Years, Part I, 1 (1859); Part II, 1 (1862)
  • Ferdinand Hahnzog, Georg II von Fleckenstein, baron of roof trusses. A Hanau administrator in the final phase of the Thirty Years War. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 18, 1962 pp. 223–242.
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of Dagstuhl Castle , as of January 19, 2009.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, p. 481 ff
  3. ^ Heinrich S. Gumpelzhaimer: The realm register of all circles. Regensburg 1796, p. 131