Hirsach (Rheinau)
Hirsach is a deserted area in the city of Rheinau in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
Hirsach located in the district of Rheinauer district Helmlingen .
history
Hirsach was in the Lichtenau office of the Lichtenberg rule . It was allodial property of the Lords of Lichtenberg. The previous owners cannot be identified. In 1335, the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg divided the country. The office of Lichtenau - and thus Hirsach - fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house.
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474) was the daughter of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), one of two heirs with claims to the rule of Lichtenberg . In 1458 she married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417, † 1480), who had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Lichtenau office - and with it Hirsach - belonged to the part of Lichtenberg that the descendants of Philipp and Anna inherited.
Since Hirsach is mentioned both as a village and a farm, it was probably gradually abandoned. In the 15th century it is still part of the Lichtenau office, later it fell into desolation.
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).
- Wilhelm Mechler: The territory of the Lichtenberger to the right of the Rhine . 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), p 31-37.