Rule of Kratz von Scharfenstein
The rule of Kratz von Scharfenstein was an office of the County of Solms-Rödelheim .
scope
The rule consisted of the immediate imperial towns of Hottenbach and Hirschfeld and the Enkirch winery. The latter managed different slopes in Asbach , Dickenschied , Dill , Enkirch , Hanenbach , Hellertshausen , Hirschfeld, Horbruch , Hottenbach, Lötzbeuren , Mürich , Oberkyrn , Pfaffenau , Rohrbach , Stipshausen , Weitersbach , Weiden , Wommert and Würrich .
history
The Kratz inheritance
The Kratz von Scharfenstein family was wealthy from the Hunsrück . Anton Cratz Scharfenstein, kurtrierscher Council and steward in the office Koblenz born and his wife Katharina von Metternich zu Zierel had four sons. Hugo Everhard Cratz von Scharfenstein became Bishop of Worms, Adam Dietrich Cratz von Scharffenstein became Imperial Colonel and Lothar Cratz von Scharffenstein became Cathedral Chapter in Worms. All three died without male descendants. Johann Philipp Cratz von Scharffenstein became general and sole heir of the Kratz von Scharfenstein rule.
His son Carl Friedrich became Canon of Trier and died childless. The sole heir was the son Johann Anton Cratz von Scharffenstein . He also had a daughter, Eleonore (1629–1680). She married Count Johann August zu Solms-Rödelheim in 1654 .
The only son of Johann Anton Cratz von Scharffenstein, the electorate councilor and bailiff in Boppard, Hugo Ernst Cratz von Scharffenstein , died in 1718 without a male heir. This made the sons of his aunt Eleonore his closest relatives. The first son, Johann Karl Eberhard von Solms-Rödelheim, died childless in 1699. The second oldest son, Major General Georg Ludwig zu Solms-Rödelheim (1664-1716) had died in 1716, but had left a son, Lothar Wilhelm Ernst zu Solms-Rödelheim (1703-1722) (a second son had already died).
In his will, Johann Anton Cratz von Scharffenstein bequeathed the rule of Kratz von Scharfenstein to the still underage Lothar Wilhelm Ernst zu Solms-Rödelheim, which had become Solmsian. Since Lothar Wilhelm Ernst died a few years later as a minor and without children, the inheritance fell to his uncle Ludwig Heinrich (1667–1728), Eleonore's third son. He died in 1728 and his eldest son Wilhelm (1699–1778) became heir. After his death, the ruling Count Johann Ernst zu Solms-Rödelheim (1714–1790) inherited his rule.
Conflicts over the inheritance
The inheritance to the minor Lothar Wilhelm Ernst zu Solms-Rödelheim was controversial. Karl Wild- and Rheingraf von Dhaun made his claims before the Reich Chamber of Commerce. His great-aunt Anna Maria was the first wife of Johann Anton Cratz von Scharffenstein. The Reich Chamber of Commerce thereupon issued a temporary ban on taking possession of the property on September 1, 1718. However, this was ignored by Rödelheim and part of the gradient of the winery was taken. In 1741 a settlement was reached and the Wild and Rhine Counts of Dhaun waived their claims. Also Kurtrier lifted claims to parts of the holding and Uncollected 1722-1744 parts of revenue. This was also resolved using the comparison route.
There was also a dispute over the inheritance within the Solms family. Ludwig Heinrich did not recognize the will and made claims himself. These were not recognized by the Reich Chamber of Commerce in a preliminary ruling, the further legal dispute ended without result with the accidental death of Lothar Wilhelm Ernst in 1722. Now it came to a comparison between Ludwig Heinrich and the mother of Lothar Wilhelm Ernst, Charlotte Sybille née von Ahlefeld. Afterwards Ludwig Heinrich received the remaining assets from Lothar Wilhelm Ernst as part of the Solm family affidavit . The rule of Kratz von Scharfenstein was not to be part of the family affidavit, but rather to be shared between Ludwig Heinrich and the daughters of Charlotte Sybille. This meant that the Solms-Rödelheim rent chamber was only entitled to half of the ruler's income. The Count von Solms-Rödelheim's hope that the problem would be solved with the death of the cousins was just as unsuccessful as a series of lawsuits before the Imperial Court of Justice that dragged on for over 30 years from 1754. Only then did the heirs agree on a complete transfer of rule to Solms-Rödelheim.
The end of the rule
With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the rule was occupied in 1794 and dissolved after 1794. In the French era , the area belonged to the Rhine-Moselle Department . With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Solms-Rödelheim received the Arnsburg monastery and the Altenberg monastery as compensation for the lost rule .
literature
- Tobias Busch: Rule by delegation. Reichsgräfliche Herrschaft at the end of the 17th and 18th centuries using the example of the Reichsgrafschaft Solms-Rödelheim = sources and research on Hessian history 156. Darmstadt 2008. ISBN 978-3-88443-310-2 , pp. 183-189.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Adam Müller: The latest change of provinces as a result of the peace treaties in Campo Formio and Lüneville: according to the definitive French-Russian compensation plan and the main conclusion of the extraordinary Reich deputation, geographically-statistically represented, 1803, p. 103 ff., Digitized