Reign of Itter
The Itter lordship was formed in the Ittergau in the High Middle Ages and was an independent lordship of the noblemen of Itter until 1356 . It was located in the northwest of Hesse and essentially comprised the area of today's municipality of Vöhl and the two exclaves Höringhausen and Eimelrod in what was then the county of Waldeck .
In 1356 Heinemann von Itter and his son Heinrich died - the son of natural causes, the father by murder on the part of a relative. Then one half of his (main) part of the Itter lordship came to Kurmainz and the Landgraviate of Hesse ; Heinemann's widow, Margarethe, sold them their rights for 900 silver marks each . The Archbishop pledged the Mainz share as early as 1359 to Count Otto II von Waldeck , who married Margarethe, Heinemann's widow, in 1357 or shortly afterwards. In 1408, the last male offspring of the family, Erasmus von Itter, finally renounced Heinemann's legacy, and the small part of the Itter estate that remained to him was also bought by the Landgraves of Hesse after his death in 1443.
After a long pledge of most of the rule from 1381/1383 to Thile I. Wolff von Gudenberg and his descendants from the Wolff von Gudenberg dynasty , the Counts of Waldeck canceled the pledge over the Mainz-Waldeck part of the Itter rule in 1542, and In 1562, Landgrave Philip I of Hesse announced that it was on the Hessian part. The latter came after Philip's death when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 to Philip II of Hesse-Rheinfels and after his death in 1583 to his brother Ludwig IV of Hesse-Marburg , who also acquired the Waldeck part by purchase in 1589. After Ludwig's death in 1604 there was a long and difficult dispute over his inheritance between Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt . It was not until 1650 that the Itter rule finally fell to Hessen-Darmstadt as the Itter exclave . In 1821, in the course of an administrative reform, the Itter district became the district of Vöhl .
On June 6, 1832, the districts of Battenberg, Vöhl and Gladenbach were combined to form the Biedenkopf district . The Vöhl district retained a special status and was not fully integrated into the Biedenkopf district. After the March Revolution in 1848, the district became the administrative district of Biedenkopf , but four years later, in 1852, it was dissolved again and divided into the districts of Biedenkopf and Vöhl , the latter again comprising the territory of the former Itter rule.
As a result of the German War of 1866 , the Grand Duchy of Hesse had to cede the Biedenkopf and Vöhl districts to Prussia . The district of Vöhl came to the administrative district of Kassel in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau on January 12, 1867 and initially received a special status within the district of Frankenberg . The district official in Vöhl, who was subordinate to the district administrator in Frankenberg, was called the bailiff. With effect from April 1, 1886, the separate administrative district Vöhl was abolished, and its communities were directly subordinate to the district administrator in Frankenberg.
Footnotes
- ^ Rainer Decker: Relatives murder in the Itter home , in: Westfälische Zeitschrift , Volume 34, 1999, pp. 363-368.
- ^ Johann Adam Kopp: Brief historical message from the gentlemen to Itter. Philipp Casimir Müller, Marburg, 1751, p. 139. In some places Kunigunde, Heinemann's daughter, is named instead of her.
- ^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1832, p. 563
- ^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1832, p. 564
- ^ Ordinance on the division of the Grand Duchy into circles of May 12, 1852 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1852 No. 30 . S. 224–229 ( online at the Bavarian State Library digital [PDF]).