Heimbach parish

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The parish Heimbach (from Kurtrier also called Amt Heimbach ) was a parish with the main town Heimbach . The parish included Heimbach Weis and Gladbach .

history

The rulership in the parish was difficult in the high Middle Ages. Large parts of the district were imperial property . On the so-called Schönfeld on the Heimbacher district there was a high court for the Engersgau . This was held by the Counts of Wied as an imperial fief. The Isenburg family owned large estates . The most important property was the Rumersdorp farm connected with the Vogteirecht. In 1117 Isenburg donated the court to found the Rommersdorf Abbey , but kept the bailiwick . Even after the foundation, the Isenburg house owned large estates, namely the Stadelhof in Heimbach and the Solmser Hof in Weis. In addition, the Counts of Sayn and the Burgraves of Hammerstein were major landowners in the parish. The Maria Laach Abbey was owned by the Laacher Hof, which was connected to a free home court . The Laach department sold the farm and court between 1241 and 1255 for 400 Cologne marks to the Rommersdorf Abbey.

What this distribution of rights meant in practice was controversial. In 1336, Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian Isenburg authorized the establishment of mayors and lay judges in the parish and to exercise the ban on blood. On May 16, 1343 Ludwig the Bavarian enfeoffed Count Wilhelm von Wied with the "friheimgericht" in the parish as an imperial fief, combined with the right to appoint mayors and lay judges and the high and low jurisdiction. The authorization of this Wiedschen Freiheimgericht remains controversial. In a wisdom dated June 15, 1476 it is described that the jurisdiction was actually exercised by the Freiheimgericht of the Rommersdorf Abbey.

The conflict resolves itself through the sale to Kurtrier. On December 20, 1545, the Rommersdorf Abbey sold its rights to high and low jurisdiction to Kurtrier. On May 20, 1570, Wied also sold his rights and imperial fiefs to Kurtrier. In September 1593 and May 1600, Count Salentin von Isenburg pledged his gradient, rights and two existing farms to Kurtrier. With the extinction of the male line in 1606, the Sayn claims went to Kurtrier as a settled fiefdom. Kurtrier had thus acquired sovereignty.

In Kurtrier the parish was administered as part of the Office Vallendar , but referred to as the Office Heimbach. From 1719 the Koblenz jury was responsible as a criminal court for the parish.

The size of the parish results from the following key figures:

place Fireplaces 1684 Houses 1784 Inhabitants 1787
Heimbach 69 125 323
Gladbach 41 104 513
Wis 36 94 446

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Heimbach office and the Vallendar office came to Nassau-Weilburg . From 1806 it was part of the Duchy of Nassau and assigned to the administrative district of Ehrenbreitstein . In 1816, after the Congress of Vienna, an area was swapped and the office became part of Prussia . It was in the district Koblenz on

literature

  • Reinhard Lahr: The Middle Rhine communities Heimbach, Weis and Gladbach between manorial rule and industrialization: (1680 - 1880); Rural social and economic structure in transition, Diss., 1995, p. 179 ff., p. 269 ff.
  • Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes , 1958, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , p. 482 ff.
  • Peter Brommer : Kurtrier at the end of the old Reich: Edition and commentary on the Electoral Trier official descriptions from (1772) 1783 to approx. 1790, Mainz 2008, Volume 2, ISBN 978-3-929135-59-6 , pp. 1324-1327.