Reign of Diemantstein

The principality of Oettingen-Wallerstein in 1805

The rule Diemantstein was a rule in the Holy Roman Empire , which came to Bavaria with the mediatization in 1806 .

history

From a sideline of the Lords of Fronhofen-Hohenburg, the Lords of the Stain or of the Stain emerged . They are first documented in 1236. Before 1236 they built a castle they called the Stain . Since this castle name appeared several times, they added the personal name Diemo to distinguish it. With the death of Konrad von Diemantstein († around 1280), Heinrich IV., Son of Heinrich III. von Rothenburg and Adelheid von Sülzburg and grandson of the Imperial Kitchen Master and cupbearer to Nuremberg, Heinrich II. and Gertrud vom Stein, joined the family of Diemantstein. The numerous descendants of Heinrich III, who called himself vom Stein rather than von Rothenburg, led to the splitting of the Diemantstein rule in the 14th century. The place name Diemenstain appears for the first time in 1362. Farmers settled around the castle and in 1603 the place consisted of six farms, a mill and a forge . "Diemantstein belonged to the canton Kocher of the knightly circle Swabia since 1542. " In 1712 the barons of Diemantstein were elevated to imperial counts . When the family died out in 1730, rulership came to the Elster family, in 1756 to the Schaudi family and in 1758 to the imperial monastery of Sankt Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg . In 1777 the rule of Diemantstein fell to the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein , who owned it until the end of the Old Kingdom . The House of Oettingen-Wallerstein, almost the sole court lord and landlord in the middle Kesseltal , set up a fief and allodial administrator's office in Diemantstein , which became part of the Bissingen Justice Office in 1807 .

Places of rule Diemantstein

• Diemantstein
• Hochdorf
• Leiheim
• Maushof
• Oberliezheim
• Tuifstädt
• Unterringingen
• Warnhofen

See also : List of Dominions in the Holy Roman Empire

literature

• 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 , p. 128.
• The district of Dillingen ad Donau, past and present . Ed. from the district of Dillingen an der Donau, 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, pp. 158–159.

Web links

Commons : Herren von Diemantstein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
2. ↑ Köbler, p. 128

Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 10.8 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 57.7 ″  E