Hofhurst

Hofhurst is a deserted area in the district of Willstätt , a municipality in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .

The village of Hofhurst belonged to the lordship of Lichtenberg and there to the office of Willstätt . Around 1330 there was a first division of land between Johann II. Von Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and Ludwig III. from Lichtenberg . Hofhurst fell into the part of the property that was administered in the future by the older line.

At an unknown point in time, the town 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).
• Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knöpp, p. 19.
2. ↑ Eyer, p. 78.