Reign of Kirkel
The reign of Kirkel was a reign of the Holy Roman Empire . It was mentioned for the first time in 1250 and initially comprised areas on the central Blies and free float on the Saar and later also in the northern Vosges . The administrative seat was the eponymous Kirkel Castle in Kirkel-Neuhäusel . The end of the rule of Kirkel came with the extinction of the Lords of Kirkel in 1386. Their allodial property came to the related Lords of Siersberg, the imperial fiefs fell back to the empire that they gave to the Electoral Palatinate , and the fiefs of the county of Saarbrücken fell on the county of Saarbrücken back, which they administered from then on. Today the area belongs to the Saarland for the most part and within it to the Saarpfalz district ; former free float belongs to Rhineland-Palatinate , Lorraine and Alsace .
history
The creation of the rule of Kirkel was preceded by the division of the County of Saar Werden . In the division of 1212/14, Count Ludwig III. the goods on the upper Saar, while his brother Heinrich I took over the Kirkel Castle and the possessions on both sides of the Blies and henceforth called himself "Herr von Kirkel".
In 1242 Heinrich I von Saar Werden-Kirkel died childless. His nephews shared his property. Ludwig IV and Heinrich II von Saar Werden, Johann and Arnold von Siersberg, Dietrich von Hagen and Alexander von Stahleck were entitled to inheritance. Judging by the later ownership structure, the Siersbergers seem to have acquired the shares of Herr von Hagen and von Stahleck. The brothers Arnold and Johann von Siersberg were able to acquire extensive parts for themselves. Arnold von Siersberg received the Siersburg from his father's possession and Johann von Siersburg received half of the Kirkel Castle, after which he first called himself "von Kirkel" in 1250. While the descendants of Arnold von Siersberg, the noble lords of Siersberg, belonged to the landed nobility of the Duchy of Lorraine until they died out in 1558 , Johann von Kirkel and his descendants, the lords of Kirkel, achieved imperial immediacy .
The history of the Lords of Kirkel is not rich in great events. There are reports of attacks on merchants, feuds against Bishop Berthold of Strasbourg, the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch and some less important nobles, participation in leagues for the protection of the peace and the protection of the escort roads.
scope
In 1353, the Kirkel reign included:
- Half of the Imperial Fief of Kirkel with Kirkel Castle and the associated Schweighof, as well as half of the Kirkel Burgmannen. The other half belonged to the Counts of Saar Werden.
- Together with the Counts of Saar, shares in the customs and escort rights to Limbach , in the villages of Steinfurt (desert near Kirkel-Neuhäusel), Volkerskirchen (desert near Kirkel-Neuhäusel), Hassel , Fronsbach (desert near Rohrbach), Fürth , Reiskirchen , Obergailbach and at the Vierherrenwald, which stretched from the Blies to Vogelbach .
- The former Saarwerdian shares in Herbitzheim , Büdingen (Wüstung near Wörschweiler ), Erbach , Ernstweiler , Einöd , Ingweiler , Bundenbach , Dunzweiler , Dörrenbach and Lautenbach and the Vogtei via the Wadgassian goods in Rohrbach and Sitzweiler (Wüstung near Rohrbach).
- Shares in the Hochgericht and Zoll zu St. Wendel .
- Since 1357 from the Wittum of Else von Kirkel, widow of Wilhelm von Windstein, half of Alt-Windstein Castle and half of the Bailiwick of Hagenau .
Personalities
- Konrad von Kirkel († May 31, 1360 in Mainz), cathedral custodian of Strasbourg, provost of Speyer, temporarily administrator of the Mainz Archbishopric.
literature
- Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the judicial district of Zweibrücken in the royal. Bayer. Rheinkkreis, dermalen Pfalz , Speyer 1837, S. 214-219. Google Books
- Wilhelm Eugen Schultz: The Bliesgau , Zweibrücken 1838. Therein: The rule of Kirkel, pp. 35–73. Google Books
- Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former districts, counties and lordships of the Bavarian Palatinate , Volume 5, Kaiserslautern 1866. Therein: Burg und Herrschaft Kirkel, pp. 228-253. Google Books
- Kurt Hoppstädter and Hans-Walter Herrmann (eds.): Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes, Volume 2: From the Franconian conquest to the outbreak of the French Revolution , Saarbrücken 1977. In it: Hans-Walter Herrmann: Die Grafen von Saar Werden S. 262–265 . Hans-Walter Herrmann: The Lords of Kirkel P. 274–278.
- Guido Müller: History of the noble lords of Siersberg, Kirkel and Dillingen , in: Our home. Bulletin of the Saarlouis district for culture and landscape 19/4 (1994), pp. 160–178
- Johann Henrich Bachmann: Pfalz Zweibrükisches Staats-Recht , Tübingen 1784, p. 13. Google Books
Web links
- Christian Lauer, M. Streiss: The Lords of Kirkel (private website, visited July 18, 2015)