Forest rulership
The rule of Forst was a state rule around the town of Forst in Niederlausitz from the 14th century to 1945.
history
The beginnings of the rule are unclear. The Forst settlement existed by the 13th century at the latest. In 1352 Katharina von Ileburg was enfeoffed with the rule of Forst by the King of Bohemia. In 1380 Hans von Bieberstein bought the rule, in 1428 the brothers Ulrich, Wenzel and Friedrich von Bieberstein confirmed their rights as Lords of Forst of the city. In 1454 they were enfeoffed by the Bohemian King Ladislav I with the town and rule of gates . Since then, both areas have been ruled together.
In 1635 the rulers with Lower Lusatia came under Saxon rule and were incorporated into the Gubenische Kreis . After the heirless death of Ferdinand II von Bieberstein, the rule of Forst fell back to Duke Christian I of Saxony-Merseburg as a settled fiefdom and was converted into the Office of Forst. The rule of Pförten went to the von Promnitz family.
In 1746, the influential Minister Heinrich Graf von Brühl bought the Forst rule and reunited it with the Pförten rule.
In 1815 the areas with Lower Lusatia came to the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1816 were incorporated into the districts of Sorau and Guben . Until 1945, however, the rule of Forst-Pförten remained in the possession of the von Brühl family .
area
The rulership included the town of Forst, 20 official or chamber villages and 18 other villages.
literature
- Johann Christoph Schneider: Chronicle of the town and estate forest before and after the union with the estate of Pförten. Guben 1846. ( digitization )
- Rudolf Lehmann : The gentlemen in Lower Lusatia. Studies of origin and history. Böhlau, Cologne-Graz 1966 (= Central German Research, Volume 40)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Georg Schreiber : Geographical description of the Lower Lusatia and its neighboring Oerter in Silesia . 1748. p.25