Kronenburg rule

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The Herrschaft Kronenburg (also Herrschaft Cronenburg ) was a territory in the then Duchy of Luxembourg , which existed until the end of the 18th century. Name factor was the Kronenburg , in the church today Dahlem in Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia is located. The rule was in the West Eifel.

Associated localities

According to Luxembourg local registers from 1766 and 1777, the Kronenburg dominion was divided into four judicial districts and the subordinates Schüller and Steffeln.

  • Kronenburg Court
  • Dahlem Court
  • Court of Ormont (Reign of Neuenstein)
  • Udenbreth court
  • Herr Schüller and Steffeln

In the village of Kerschenbach , which belongs to the county of Gerolstein , three houses belonged to the Kronenburg dominion. The owners of the three houses in Kerschenbach are said to have lived in Kronenburg territory before the Thirty Years' War and to have settled in Kerschenbach during the plague. The Kronburg houses were scattered among the Gerolstein houses in the middle of the village. The district of Kerschenbach was divided. The boundaries between Hof Stadtkyll and the Kronenburger courts Baasem and Osmond were in dispute.

history

The participants in the Kyll located Kronenburg was in the Middle Ages one of the seat Dynastengeschlechtes been that bore the name of the castle. By the middle of the 12th century, this dynasty had already expired in the male line and the rule was passed to the Lords of Dollendorf through marriage .

In 1278 Gerlach von Dollendorf was lord of Kronenburg, he seems to have given this rule to the Archbishop of Cologne and then to Count Heinrich of Luxembourg as a fief . In a document from 1281 his son, who was also called Gerlach, confesses that his father paid homage to this count. His grandson, Gerlach IV., Documents in a certificate from 1306 that he has received his "Castle of Cronenburg" and all accessories from the Count of Luxembourg anew, just like the Kronenburg legacy has always been a Luxembourger Was fief. From Gerlach IV the rule of Kronenburg went to his brother Friedrich, who also held the rule of Neuerburg .

The villages and the number of subjects (families) of the Kronenburg dominion have come down to us from a directory from 1649 :

Locality Subjects
Cronenburger Nachparschaft 22nd
Citizens uff Cronenburger huts 15th
Village basem 34
uff the Iser huts 3
Dalheim village 31
Ormonten 14th
Kerschenbach 3
Shit 2
Locality Subjects
Frawencron 2
Halschlach 13
Berck 7th
Udenbreth 20th
Schnorrenbergh 4th
uff Mützingen harvester 1
uff Dalmescheit 2
Stefflen 19th

Due to the succession, rule over various noble houses came to the Counts of Manderscheid-Gerolstein in 1697 and after Count Johann Wilhelm Franz von Manderscheid-Blankenheim had united all Manderscheid-Blankenheim possessions in 1780 through his niece Auguste to Count Philipp Christian von Sternberg and Manderscheid.

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . Under the French administration , the area of ​​the previous rule Kronenburg was assigned to the canton of Kronenburg ( Canton Cronenburg ) in the Ourthe department.

Today Hallschlag , Ormont , Scheid , Schüller and Steffeln belong to Rhineland-Palatinate, the other places belong to North Rhine-Westphalia .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, pp. 32, 49, 352
  2. Clomes: attempt at a statistical-geographic description of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , Schmit-Bruck, 1840, p 9 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat , Georg Bärsch : Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel , Volume 3, Issue 2, Part 1, Mayer, 1854, p. 393 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ A b c Heinrich Alfred Reinick (ed.): Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen. Verlag von Benrath & Vogelsang, Aachen 1865, p. 15 f ( Google Books )