Reign of Pinkafeld

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Localities of the Pinkafeld rule

The Pinkafeld lordship was one of the lords of Burgenland and a historical administrative unit in the Austrian province of Burgenland and existed as an independent lordship from 1659 to 1854. The rulers were exclusively family members of the Hungarian magnates Batthyány or their spouses. The rulership archives of the former rulers are now in the Burgenland Provincial Archives .

history

Origin of rule

Paul II. Batthyány: ruler 1669–1674, founder of the Pinkafelder line of his family.
Palace of Pinkafeld

Around 1289 the domain belonged to the Lords of Güns and from 1291 was part of the Bernstein domain in Burgenland . The rule became independent when after the death of Ádám Batthyány , the owner of the dominions Güssing , Rechnitz , Schlaining and Bernstein, his second wife Barbara took over the dominion Pinkafeld and Schloss Pinkafeld as a widow's residence in 1659 . In 1660 Christoph and Paul, the sons from the first marriage of their deceased husband, took over the rule. In addition to the suburb Pinkafeld, the localities Riedlingsdorf , Wiesfleck , Schönherrn , Weinberg , Hochart , Schreibersdorf , Willersdorf , Sulzriegel , Kroisegg and Rechpach bei Pinkafeld (no longer exists today) belonged to the dominion. In the same year the Batthyány brothers united the rule with amber. In 1669, Bernstein was divided between Christoph and Paul. The younger son Paul was given Pinkafeld with Riedlingsdorf, Unterschützen, Aschau, Bergwerk, Grodnau, Holzschlag, Goberling, Jormannsdorf, Kroisegg, Neustift and half of Günseck . Half of the village of Grafenschachen , which belonged to the Schlaining rule, was pledged to the Pinkafeld rule. In addition, the vitriol and sulfur mine near mine came to the Paul Batthyánys estate. The dominion was divided into two parts by the municipality of Oberschützen. The division was not based solely on geographical criteria, but was also based on fairness with regard to the economic value of the goods. The composition of the rulership changed only slightly, despite multiple partitions in later years until the end of its existence.

17th century

Paul II. Batthány ruled from 1669 until his death in 1674. He became the ancestor of his family's Pinkafelder line. Afterwards Paul's uncle Count Ladislaus Csáky administered the rule as guardian of Paul's sons. From 1397 onwards with various privileges such as For example, the Pinkafeld market with high and low jurisdiction got into a dispute with Csáky because he wanted to take over the regional court. The Pinkafelder complained to the Hungarian King Leopold I. The complaint was evidently successful, since the guardianship of the sons and thus the administration of the rule was passed to Christoph II. Batthány, brother of the late Paul in 1676.

In 1698 the brothers Franz and Sigismund Batthyány shared the rule. Franz allotted the villages of Holzschlag, Günseck and Jormannsdorf, Sigismund Pinkafeld, Riedlingsdorf, Kroisegg, Unterschützen, Goberling, Grodnau, Aschau, Bergwerk and Neustift.

18th century

From 1699 a legal dispute developed between the privileged places Pinkafeld and Unterschützen and the ruler Sigismund Batthyány, who did not want to recognize the privileges of the villages. In the course of the anti-Habsburg uprising under the Hungarian nobleman Franz II. Rákóczi ( Kuruzenkrieg ) in 1704, 1707 and 1708 the Kurucs invaded the territory and plundered. This turmoil of war also delayed the process with the ruler. In 1716 King Charles VI confirmed . finally the privileges of the places and pronounced a punishment for Count Sigismund.

After the death of Franz Batthyánys (1717), the rule that had been divided in 1698 was reunited. In 1736 there was another dispute over the Pinkafelder privilege issues between the ruling suburb of Pinkafeld and the landlord Adam III. Batthany. The disputes could not be resolved even among the subsequent landlords and did not come to an end until the beginning of the 19th century under the landlord Nikolaus Batthyány.

19th century

At the time of the coalition wars, from 1806 to 1809, several hundred French men moved through the territory, who camped in Styria and on the Pinkafelder municipality. Citizens from the rulership went to Hungarian regiments as voluntary recruits and they delivered fruit, cattle and cloth to the French troops. In 1808 Nikolaus Batthyány took possession of the rule. In 1836 Hungary decided to abolish the robot . The rule lasted until the implementation of the basic discharge. In 1854 the Hungarian Reichstag resolved to abolish serfdom, landlord jurisdiction, many other privileges of the landlords, compulsory labor, etc. The leasehold land cultivated by the peasants became their property in exchange for a redemption. Unredeemed land remained the Batthyany as a large estate. The former subjects became citizens , the localities of the rule free communities. The former rulership of Schloss Pinkafeld remained in Batthyan property.

Place name today Place name 1744 Population 1846
Pinkafeld Oppidum Pinkafeld 2,856
Riedlingsdorf Rődöny 1,282
Protect Alsó Sicz 1,079
Grodnau Grodnau 307
Goberling Goberlingh 514
Aschau in Burgenland Ossau 252
Jormannsdorf Jurmersdorff 398
Neustift near Schlaining Naistift 222
Kroisegg Kruiszegh 172
Mine Perbergh 266
Felling Holczslagh 418
Reign of Pinkafeld 7,766

20th century

At the turn of the century, the large estate and the castle of the former Batthyány rulers were transferred to the Batthyány-Taxis branch. After that the property came by marriage to Baron Neugebauer and in 1925 by buying it to the Kageneck family . Subsequently, the property of the former rulership was divided among other owners. The municipality of Pinkafeld acquired the former seat of the Pinkafeld Castle.

Batthyány family archive Pinkafeld

The Pinkafeld Rulership Archive is one of the few family and rulership archives of the former rulers in Burgenland that is now owned by the Province of Burgenland. The majority of the archives are now in the State Archives of Hungary or with the respective former rulers. The Pinkafelder rulership archive was moved to Kittsee after the Taxis family took over . Later it came to the Pinkafeld Local History Museum, where it was arranged by the later State Archives Director Josef Karl Homma . When Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich in 1938 , Pinkafeld became part of the Reichsgau Steiermark and the archive was handed over to the Styrian State Archives in Graz. After the re-establishment of the Province of Burgenland in 1945, it was transferred to the Burgenland State Archives .

The archive directory comprises 362 typing pages. The archive also contains holdings from the gentlemen Güssing , Neuhaus , Zemming and Nagyszarva . This is explained by the Batthyan divisions, according to which parts of the appearing rulers had also fallen to the Pinkafelder branch of the family.

literature

  • Josef Karl Homma : On the history of the rulership of southern Burgenland in the series "Burgenländische Forschungen", published by Burgenländisches Landesarchiv, Verlag Verdinand Berger, Horn - Vienna 1947
  • Josef Karl Homma: History of the City of Pinkafeld , self-published by Stadtgemeinde Pinkafeld, Pinkafeld 1987
  • August Ernst: History of Burgenland . Verlag für Geschichte u. Politics, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7028-0311-4 .
  • Károly Vörös: Southern Burgenland around the middle of the 18th century in the series “Burgenland Research”, published by Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1960

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Josef Karl Homma: Suburb of the independent rule Pinkafeld , in "History of the City of Pinkafeld", self-published by Stadtgemeinde Pinkafeld, Pinkafeld 1987, p. 38ff
  2. ↑ Research archive ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Burgenland regional government http: //www.burgenland.at,/ accessed on October 12, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgenland.at
  3. ^ Family Batthyány 17th century on the homepage of the Batthyány family ( http://www.batthyany.at), / accessed on October 16, 2010
  4. ^ Josef Karl Homma: On the history of the rulership of southern Burgenland , in Burgenländische Forschungen, published by the Landesarchiv and Landesmuseum Burgenland, Verlag Ferdinand Berger, Horn-Wien 1947, p. 17
  5. ^ Batthyan rulership archive Pinkafeld Fasz. 36
  6. ^ Josef Karl Homma: On the history of the rulership of southern Burgenland , in Burgenländische Forschungen, published by the Landesarchiv and Landesmuseum Burgenland, Verlag Ferdinand Berger, Horn-Wien 1947, p. 17
  7. ↑ Batthyánisches Herrschaftsarchiv Güssing Lade 14, Fasz. 6, No. 14
  8. ^ City archive Pinkafeld A / 52
  9. ↑ August Ernst: History of Burgenland , publishing house for history a. Politics, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7028-0311-4 , p. 49ff.
  10. ^ Albert Judeich: The basic discharge in Germany , Brockhaus-Verlag, Leipzig 1863, p. 13ff.
  11. ↑ Carl Freiherr von Czoernig : The Austrian Budget for 1862, Volume 2 , Ed. Kk Direction of administrative statistics, Vienna 1862, p. 413ff.
  12. ↑ Batthyány Castle - State Vocational School (PDF; 1.2 MB) on the website of the Pinkafeld community http: //www.pinkafeld-online.at/ accessed on October 16, 2010
  13. ↑ Family and mansion archives  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 23 kB) on the website of the Burgenland Provincial Government http: //www.burgenland.at,/ accessed on October 16, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.burgenland.at  
  14. ^ Josef Karl Homma: Batthyánisches Herrschaftsarchiv Pinkafeld , in "Geschichte der Stadt Pinkafeld", self-published by the Stadtgemeinde Pinkafeld, Pinkafeld 1987, p. 236f