Reign of Munzenberg

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The Munzenberg rule refers to a historical administrative and judicial district in the Wetterau , which was ruled jointly as a condominium by various noble houses located there.

history

Munzenberg inheritance

From the Munzenberg inheritance , the estate of Ulrich II von Munzenberg , the Munzenberg estate inherited his six sisters as an allod in 1255 . The inheritance, including the Munzenberg estate, was ideally allocated in equal parts to the six heiresses, but managed by them and their legal successors as a joint condominium. Initially each received a share:

Shares

The rights to the shares - and thus the rights of domination over Munzenberg - were passed on and in some cases also sold, so that different owners' associations were formed over and over again. The individual owners integrated their respective share into the administrative structures of their own rulers, in the rulership and later county of Hanau , as well as under their heirs, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . B. summarized in an office of Munzenberg , in the county of Stolberg-Roßla it belonged to the local office of Ortenberg and in the county of Solms-Braunfels to the office of Hungen . The allocation of the shares to individual owners developed as follows:

Period Men's Remarks
1255-1256 Adelheid 1 / 6
∞ Reinhard I of Hanau 		Isengard 1 / 6
∞ Philip I of Falkenstein 		Mechthild 1 / 6
∞ Engelhard Weinberg 		Irmengard 1 / 6
∞ Konrad Weinberg 		Agnes 1 / 6
∞ Konrad of Schoneberg 		Hedwig 1 / 6
∞ Heinrich of Pappenheim 		Distribution of inheritance among six married daughters
1256-1272 Rule Hanau 1 / 6 Falk stone 3 / 6 Schoneberg 1 / 6 Pappenheim 1 / 6 Falkenstein acquired the two Weinsberg shares in 1256.
1272-1286 Hanau 1 / 6 Falkenstein 4 / 6 Pappenheim 1 / 6 Falkenstein acquired the Schöneberg share in 1272.
1286-1418 Hanau 1 / 6 Falk stone 5 / 6 Falkenstein acquired the Pappenheim share in 1286.
1418-1507 County Hanau 8 / 48 Eppstein 20 / 48 Solms -Greiffenstein 15 / 48 Solms -Laubach 5 / 48 In 1418 the Falkensteiners went out. Their share fell in equal parts to Solms and Eppstein. The Solms share was divided in a ratio of 3: 1 between the Greiffenstein and Laubach lines.
1507-1581 County Hanau 8 / 48 Königstein 20 / 48 Solms-Greiffenstein 15 / 48 Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 In 1507 the last male representative of the von Eppstein family ceded his rights to a pension to the Lords of Königstein.
1581-1684 Hanau-Münzenberg 8 / 48 Mainz 10 / 48 Stolberg-Gedern 10 / 48 Solms-Greiffenstein 15 / 48 Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 1581 Half of the Eppstein share went to Stolberg-Gedern, the other half to Kurmainz .
1684-1736 Hanau 18 / 48 Stolberg-Gedern 10 / 48 Solms-Greiffenstein 15 / 48
from 1693 Solms-Braunfels 		Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 In 1684 Mainz ceded its share to Hanau as part of an area swap.
from 1736 Hesse-Kassel 18 / 48 Stolberg-Gedern 10 / 48 Solms-Braunfels 15 / 48 Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 In 1736 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel inherited the County of Hanau-Münzenberg, see Johann Reinhard III. .

In the course of the mediatization in the wake of the Napoleonic wars , the area of ​​dominion came predominantly to the Grand Duchy of Hesse , finally belonged to the Friedberg district and after the Hessian territorial reform in 1974 to the Wetterau district .

The condominium was continued under private law in relation to the lands associated with the previous rule until the 1930s.

Components

literature

  • Günther Binding : Munzenberg Castle - A Hohenstaufen castle complex. = Treatises on art, music and literary studies 20. Bonn 1963. Reviews on this: Nassauische Annalen 75 (1964), p. 326; Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 13 (1963), p. 368ff.
  • Dommerich: Documented history of the gradual expansion of the County of Hanau from the middle of the 13th century until the house died out in 1736. In: Mitteilungen des Hanauer Bezirksverein für Geschichte und Landeskunde 1/2 (1860), p. 31.
  • Regnerus Engelhard: Earth description of the Hessian Lands of Casselischen Antheil explained with notes from history. Vol. 2. Kassel 1778, p. 813.
  • Franziska Haase: Ulrich I., Lord of Hanau 1281-1306. mach. Diss. Münster 1924, p. 4, 14.
  • Walter Hävernick: The older minting of the Wetterau up to the end of the 13th century. = Publication of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck XVIII, 1). Marburg 1936.
  • Ferdinand Heß: The ecclesiastical development of the Munzenberg community up to the implementation of the Reformation (12th – 16th centuries). In: Contributions to the Hessian church history . Supplementary volume 10 on the archive for Hessian history and antiquity. Darmstadt 1935, pp. 1-43.
  • Günter Hoch: Territorial history of the eastern Dreieich. Marburg 1953, p. 119.
  • Anette Löffler: The Lords and Counts of Falkenstein (Taunus) = sources and research on Hessian history 99. Darmstadt 1994, vol. 1, p. 361ff.
  • Johann Jacob Moser : Reichs-Fama , Vol. 22 ,. Frankfurt 1736, p. 220ff.
  • Regina Schäfer: The Lords of Eppstein. = Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Wiesbaden 2000, pp. 80, 85, 91, 103, 116, 442.
  • Preliminary brief remarks on the so-called description of the Hanau-Mintzenberg lands were published by the Hanau-Mintzenberg government some time ago. o. O. 1723.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3. Edition. Hanau 1919, ND 1978.