Reign of Hingsingen
The rule Hingsingen (French Seigneurie d'Hingsange ) was a rule in Lorraine , which was issued by the bishops of Metz as an inheritance . After the final cession of the diocese of Metz to France in 1648 by the Peace of Westphalia , the Lords of Hingsingen became vassals of the King of France.
territory
The rule of Hingsingen split into the two dairies Bischdorf and Tänchen and included the areas of today's municipalities of Bérig , Bermering , Bertring, Bistroff , Buschdorf, Francaltroff , Grostenquin , Hellimer , Léning and Virming . The Hingsinger share in Francaltroff (1/6) and Léning (1/2) was not a fief of Metz, but an Allod . Due to changeable spellings - including Hönsingen, Hungesingen, Hinsingen, Hinquezange, Hingsange - Hingsingen in today's Moselle department was sometimes confused with the municipality Hinsingen 25 kilometers east of Hingsange in today's Bas-Rhin department .
The center of the rule was a castle, which stood two kilometers south of Grostenquin. A castle in Hingsingen was first mentioned in a document in 1266. After the French Revolution , the facility was sold as a national property and destroyed. Today the Hingsange farm stands at the same location.
The gentlemen of Hingsingen
The Lords of Bridges from Bliesgau had owned the Hof zu Tänchen (Grostenquin) since 1242. Since 1307 they carried the title "Lord of Hingsingen". In the late Middle Ages , rule was divided among several families of the Lorraine, Alsatian and German nobility , such as the von Harracourt, Bayer von Boppard , Pallant , Ratsamhausen, Sötern, Eltz and Hagen families .
In the late 15th century, Johann von Helmstatt († 1500) acquired part of the rule through his marriage to Gertrude von Pallant. As a result of the marriage of his grandfather Damian von Helmstatt († 1466) to Margareta Hase von Dievelich, the lords of Helmstatt, who originally came from Kraichgau , had part of the Dürkastel (Château-Voué) dominion in what is now the canton of Château-Salins, 26 kilometers south of Hingsingen can get hold of. In the late 15th and 16th centuries, the Lords of Helmstatt successively acquired the shares of the other Hingsinger heirs and reunited them into one rule. In the 18th century they also succeeded in taking possession of Burgaltdorf and the neighboring county of Mörchingen (Morhange). This increase brought the Lorraine branch of the family the elevation to the Lorraine count .
After the outbreak of the French Revolution, Count Pleickart Maximilian von Helmstatt (1728–1802) emigrated to Germany. His possessions in Lorraine were confiscated by the French Republic and largely sold as national property. Pleikart Maximilian had remained childless and had already adopted Franz Ludwig von Helmstatt (1752–1841) from the family's Oberöwisheim branch in 1773 . This was compensated for the lost Lorraine possessions in 1806 with 2.5 million guilders.
literature
- The old territories of the district of Lorraine including the areas belonging to the Upper Rhine district in the district of Lower Alsace as of January 1, 1648 . Part II. DuMont, Schauberg 1909, pp. 176-185.
- Hermann Peter Barth: The rule Hingsingen . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region . No. 12, Saarbrücken 1962, ISSN 0513-9058 , pp. 134-188.
- Hermann Stein, Arnold Scheuerbrandt: Origin and history of the (Neckar-) Bischofsheimer main line of the gentlemen of Helmstatt. Their tombs and their buildings. 2nd, improved edition. Heimatverein Kraichgau, Sinsheim 2005, ISBN 3-921214-31-9 (Small series. Volume 2).