Lordship of Kasselburg

Kasselburg , east view, aerial photo (2015)

The rule of Kasselburg (also Casselburg ) was an imperial direct territory in the Eifel , which existed until the end of the 18th century. It was named after the Kasselburg . The rule was in what is now the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The lordship of Kasselburg included the Kasselburg and the villages of Betteldorf , Gees and Pelm , as well as the arenbergic portion of the Neunkirchen high court . The rule was originally a Kurtrierisches fief and came by the Lords of Blankenheim to the counts of Manderscheid , of these 1,681 to the Ducal House of Arenberg .

Like all rulers on the Left Bank of the Rhine , the Kasselburg rulership was dissolved during the so-called French era .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 1, Trier, Lintz, 1849, p. 93 ( Google Books )
2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, pp. 501, 502