Rittersdorf rule
The rule of Rittersdorf was a territory in the Duchy of Luxembourg that existed until the end of the 18th century. The main town was today's local community Rittersdorf in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate , named after the castle Rittersdorf .
Associated localities
The rule of Rittersdorf only included two villages:
history
In the rule of Rittersdorf the abbot of St. Maximin near Trier was landlord and feudal lord and the owner of the rule of Bettingen Vogt. The lordship of Bettingen had belonged to the Counts of Manderscheid-Kail since the 16th century , followed by the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim in 1742 . The state sovereignty was held by the Duchy of Luxembourg , the rule of Rittersdorf was subordinate to the Bitburg district . Ecclesiastically, the residents of the rule belonged to the Archdiocese of Trier .
In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . Under French administration , the area was assigned to the canton of Bitburg in the department of forests .
Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815. The two communities Rittersdorf and Nattenheim came to the Bitburg district in the Trier administrative district in 1816 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Clomes: Attempt at a statistical-geographical description of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , Schmit-Bruck, 1840, p. 4 ( Google Books )
- ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat , Georg Bärsch : Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel, Volume 3, Issue 2, Part 1, Mayer, 1854, S, 439, 556 ( Google Books )
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, p. 25
- ^ A b Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 2, Trier, Lintz, 1846, pp. 15, 28 ( Google Books )