Lordship of Oberbronn
The dominion of Oberbronn was a dependent territory that belonged to different noble families and was incorporated into their territory like an office .
history
middle Ages
Wilhelm von Born, owner of Wasenburg , is also mentioned as the owner of Oberbronn in 1232. Both Oberbronn and Wasenburg had been a fiefdom from the diocese of Strasbourg to the Lords of Lichtenberg since the end of the 13th century .
Ox stone
As a result, the area of the Oberbronn rule was part of the Ochsenstein rule . The villages of Breitenwasen , Eckartsweiler , Eckwersheim , Oberbronn (including the castle), Weinburg and Wildenguth belong to this oldest inventory .
After the devastating defeat of the allied Lords of Ochsenstein and the Counts of Leiningen in the Battle of Reichshofen in 1451, the Lords of Lichtenberg tried to gain a foothold here, but only succeeded to a limited extent: in an exchange deal with the Count of Lützelstein , the Lichtenbergers received their rights in Oberbronn. As far as individual villages in the dominion of Oberbronn were fiefs of the Bishop of Metz , the latter refused his consent to transfer them to the Lichtenbergers.
Zweibrücken-Bitsch
Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) was the daughter of Ludwig V. von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474) and one of two heirs with claims to the rule of Lichtenberg . She married Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Elisabeth, she and the heirs of her predeceased sister, Anna von Lichtenberg , inherited half of the Lichtenberg estate in 1480. The rule was divided and the Ingweiler office was added to the part of the inheritance that fell to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, while the Pfaffenhofen office was Anna and her husband, Philipp I, the elder, from Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417, † 1480).
When Georg von Ochsenstein died as the last of his family in 1485, the inheritance - and with it the rule of Oberbronn - fell to the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch , as Georg was married to a woman from this house and his only sister, Kunigunde, a count of Zweibrücken-Bitsch, Heinrich, had married. The Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch separated some places from the Ingweiler office and incorporated them into the Oberbronn rule. They were: Rothbach , Sparsbach and Zittersheim .
A number of places that had previously belonged to the Pfaffenhofen office, namely: Merzweiler , Niefern , Schweighausen , Uhrweiler and Zinsweiler , also came under the rule of Oberbronn . The dispute over the intertwined rights led to a dispute between the Counts of Hanau Lichtenberg on the one hand and the legal successors of the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch in the rule of Oberbronn on the other hand, which was only settled in 1709.
Leiningen
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The rule of Oberbonn came from Zweibrücken-Bitsch through the marriage of Amelie von Zweibrücken-Bitsch with Philip I of Leiningen-Westerburg in 1551 as a dowry and in the following time belonged to the County of Leiningen.
Within the House of Leiningen, the Oberbronn rule came to the family branch of the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg . After the death of the last owner of Leiningen, Johann Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg, in 1665, his two daughters, Esther Juliana, married to the Swedish Baron Ludwig von Sinclair, and Sophie Sibylle (1656–1724), married to Friedrich II. Von Hessen , inherit -Homburg ( Heinrich von Kleist’s " Prince Friedrich von Homburg "), the rule. It was their second and third marriage. The inheritance of Sinclair was about 1/3, that of Hessen-Homburg 2/3 of the rule.
Hessen-Homburg and Sinclair
On the occasion of the marriage of Countess Sophia Friderica von Hessen-Homburg with Karl Philipp Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein in 1727, the Hesse-Homburg part of the Oberbronn rulership was part of the dowry .
Hohenlohe, Sinclair and Lewenhaupt
Sophie Friederike bequeaths the rule of Oberbronn to her son, Ludwig Leopold von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, who ceded the heavily indebted rule to his brother, Josef Christian Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, canon in Strasbourg . He bequeathed the rule of Oberbronn to his nephew, Karl Joseph von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (1766–1838), the last lord of Oberbronn. According to another representation, Sophie Friederica established a secondary school for her grandson Karl Joseph von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (1766–1838).
The share of the Sinclair family passed through marriage and inheritance to the von Lewenhaupt family, who were also Swedish in the middle of the 18th century .
In 1764 the Hohenlohe family sold part of their rights, including Zinsweiler with his hammer forge, to the industrial family De Dietrich .
resolution
Hohenlohe had to cede the rule to France in 1793 and was resigned to areas of the secularized diocese of Würzburg . In the administrative reforms following the French Revolution , the rule of Oberbronn was dissolved.
Components
| place | status | annotation |
|---|---|---|
| Breitenwasen | hamlet | today: district of Oberbronn |
| Eckartsweiler | Village | |
| Eckwersheim | Village | After the lost feud of the Ochsensteiner, the Lichtenbergers tried to get possession of the village in 1451, but this was prevented by the feudal lord , the bishop of Metz . |
| Gross-Arnsberg | Castle | This was probably a part of the castle, as the Lords of Lichtenberg were the main tenants of this imperial fief. |
| Gumbrechtshofen | Village | half of each: 1.) Zweibrücken-Bitsch → Leiningen-Westerburg → Hessen-Homburg; 2.) Lichtenberg → Hanau-Lichtenberg → Hessen-Homburg |
| Merzweiler | Village | The village originally belonged to the Pfaffenhofen office of the Lichtenberg rule . In the vicinity of the Lichtenberg inheritance, which was divided between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg after 1456 , the village came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, where it was added to the rule of Oberbronn. Since 1551 at the latest, the village no longer belongs to the Hanau-Lichtenberg area of influence. |
| Oberbronn | Castle | |
| Oberbronn | Village | |
| Niefern | Belongs to Uhrweiler today. The village originally belonged to the Pfaffenhofen office of the Lichtenberg rule. In the vicinity of the Lichtenberg inheritance, which was divided between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg after 1456, the village came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, where it was added to the rule of Oberbronn. Since 1551 at the latest, the village no longer belongs to the Hanau-Lichtenberg area of influence. | |
| Rothbach | Village | The village originally belonged to the Ingweiler district of the Lichtenberg rule. Through the division of inheritance between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1456, the Ingweiler office and the village came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, where it was added to the rule of Oberbronn. |
| Schweighausen | Village | The village originally belonged to the Pfaffenhofen office of the Lichtenberg rule. In the vicinity of the Lichtenberg inheritance, which was divided between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg after 1456, the village came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, where it was added to the rule of Oberbronn. Since 1551 at the latest, the village no longer belongs to the Hanau-Lichtenberg area of influence. |
| Sparsbach | Village | The village originally belonged to the Ingweiler district of the Lichtenberg rule. Through the division of inheritance between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1456, the Ingweiler office and the village came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, where it was added to the rule of Oberbronn. |
| Uhrweiler | Village | The village originally belonged to the Pfaffenhofen office of the Lichtenberg rule. In the vicinity of the Lichtenberg inheritance, which was divided between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg after 1456, the village came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, where it was added to the rule of Oberbronn. Since 1551 at the latest, the village no longer belongs to the Hanau-Lichtenberg area of influence. |
| Weinburg | Village | |
| Wildenguth | Village | today: Reipertswiller community |
| Zinsweiler | Village | The village originally belonged to the Pfaffenhofen office of the Lichtenberg rule. In the vicinity of the Lichtenberg inheritance, which was divided between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg after 1456, the village came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, where it was added to the rule of Oberbronn. Since 1551 at the latest, the village no longer belongs to the Hanau-Lichtenberg area of influence. In 1764 the village and its hammer forge were sold to the De Dietrich family of industrialists . |
| Zittersheim | Village | The village originally belonged to the Ingweiler district of the Lichtenberg rule. Through the division of inheritance between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1456, the Ingweiler office and the village came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch, where it was added to the rule of Oberbronn. |
literature
- Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
- Freddy Gutbub and Ernst Hallenberger: Rothbach - Histoire d'un village des Vosges du Nord / History of a village in the Northern Vosges . 1991. ISBN 2-9505842-0-9 ( bilingual : in French and German)
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 481: Keyword: Oberbronn (Herrschaft).
- Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (ed.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9
- Peter Karl Weber: Lichtenberg. Alsatian domination on the way to becoming a territorial state. Social costs of political innovation . Heidelberg 1993.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eyer, p. 148.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 75
- ↑ Eyer, p. 74
- ↑ Jean-Claude Brumm: Quelques dates importantes dans l'histoire… . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), pp 11.
- ^ Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven: European family tables III. Marburg 1976, plate 92.
- ↑ Waltz and Rudolph.
- ^ Gutbub, p. 45.
- ↑ Waltz and Rudolph.
- ↑ Waltz and Rudolph.
- ↑ Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 2: The Territories in the Old Kingdom. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91466-8 , p. 385.
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- ↑ Waltz and Rudolph.
- ↑ Köbler.
- ↑ Information from Weber, p. 37, note 50.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 74
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ↑ Waltz and Rudolph.