Horst (Kurköln)
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Horst is a historical territory that was under the rule of Kurköln from 1639 to 1801 . Under the rule included on the present territory of the city of Mönchengladbach lying Honnschaften pigeon hut, hut Lepper, City since 1650 and the Horster Schelsen and parts of today Korschenbroich belonging Places Pesch and Steinhausen . In 1670 the territory had a size of 519 hectares , on which there were 72 houses and farms. The seat of the feudal bearers was the Haus Horst moated castle . A gallows stood on the road between Haus Horst and Liedberg as a place of execution and symbol of rule .
history
In the Middle Ages, the territory was owned by the widely ramified von der Horst family . In 1338 Herrmann von der Horst offered his property to the open house and fiefdom to the Archbishop of Cologne, Walram, for 200 marks . With Wilhelm von der Horst, the male line of this family branch died out in 1528, and the territory came to the von Palant family via a daughter . In 1609 Johann von Dorth was enfeoffed with Horst, Johann von Palant's son-in-law, who had left no male heirs. Under the rule of the Dorth family, Horst was raised to the status of electoral Cologne in 1639, and around 1650 the sub-rule reached its greatest extent with the acquisition of the eastern part of Schelsen, the Horster Schelsen. With the elevation to subordination, only the Catholic denomination was expressly permitted. Due to financial problems, the Dorth family had to sell the property in 1782, so it came to the von Hallberg family, who were enfeoffed by the Archbishop of Cologne on March 14, 1783 with subordinate rule.
Like all other territories on the left bank of the Rhine in Kurköln, Horst was ceded to Napoleonic France in the Peace of Lunéville in 1801 .
literature
- Walter Daugsch : Giesenkirchen in the early modern times . In: Wolfgang Löhr (Ed.): Loca desiderata. Mönchengladbach City History, Vol. 2 . Rheinland-Verlag, Pulheim 1999, pp. 283-335, ISBN 3-7927-1801-4 .