Konrad Diede

Konrad (Kurt) Diede or Diede zum Fürstenstein († 1565 ) was treasurer , secret councilor and most recently court marshal of the Hessian landgrave Philip I and at times also an assessor at the court . He was the progenitor of all later Diede zum Fürstenstein .

Landgrave Ministeriale

Konrad Diede was a scion of the north Hessian Ministerialengeschlechts of Diede , which from 1436 with the castle Fürstenstein at Albungen at the Werra fief was and whose members then from 1479 and more frequently Diede for Fürstenstein called. His father Ernst was declared as the Hessian bailiff of the Hersfeld monastery in 1515 . Konrad served the Hereditary Prince Philip at court as a young noble boy , was brought up with him and stayed in the immediate vicinity of his sovereign his entire life. He became one of the closest confidante of Landgrave Philip and his son, Wilhelm IV. In 1537 he was one of Philip's godparents to his son Ludwig . In 1549 Konrad Diede was one of the three ambassadors (with Hermann von Hundelshausen and Heinrich Lersner ) of Landgrave Wilhelm IV, whom he sent to the Saxon princes in the matter of the release of his father Philip I, and in 1552 he was one of the four Hessian ambassadors (with Adam Trott, Eberhard / Ebert von Bruch and Anton von Wersabe), who accompanied Landgrave Philipp back to Hesse after the end of his captivity. Most recently he was Landgrave Philip's Court Marshal and one of the guardians of Philip's children, who were still underage when the Landgrave died, and his second wife Margarethe von der Saale .

Acquisition of ownership

His family owed a considerable increase in property to him, in particular the property complexes Immichenhain and Ziegenberg .

Immichenhain

In 1538, Landgrave Philipp enfeoffed him with half of the former Immichenhain monastery estate in today's Schwalm-Eder district, including accessories, which was abolished with the introduction of the Reformation in Hessen . H. the farms of Volkershof and Niederberf (today Berfhof and Berfmühle near Hattendorf ). The other half was used to finance court and state administration and parish costs . This fiefdom was renewed and expanded on August 17, 1544: it now comprised the monastery property including the building yard, the village of Immichenhain with the local Weinzapf, the Volkershof as well as income from Leimbach , Neukirchen , Riebelsdorf , Holzburg and the tithe in Niederberf. Although this fief should be available for 4000 guilders , it remained in the family's possession until it expired in 1807 and was temporarily the focus of Diede's administration. In the former monastery church, today's Protestant parish church of Immichenhain, there are five epitaphs of Diede zum Fürstenstein.

In 1540, Landgrave Philipp Konrad Diede also enfeoffed formerly Haina'i income to Holzburg.

Goat mountain

Konrad Diede had been married to Ottilia since 1540, an heir to Jost von Drachsdorf (also Draxdorf or Traxdorf), who had died in 1529 , the Landgrave Hessian bailiff at Eppstein, then senior bailiff of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen 1514-19, finally Hessian court master and councilor. After the death of Anton von Drachsdorf, the last of the sons of Jost von Drachsdorf, Diede acquired sole ownership of the castle in 1557 - partly as an inheritance from his wife, partly by paying 4,000 Reichstalers to his brothers-in-law Philipp and Marsilius von Reifenberg Ziegenberg in the Wetterau and its accessories, d. H. Ziegenberg valley with the Mühlenbann and other accessories, further downward slope to Wernborn , Pfaffenwiesbach , Langenhain and Fauerbach . His descendants therefore called themselves hereditary court lords zu Fürstenstein, Ziegenberg, Immichenhain, Wellingerode etc. Hans Eitel Diede zum Fürstenstein , from 1745 to 1748 burgrave of Friedberg Castle , had the medieval castle converted into a baroque palace around 1747 .

Alum extraction in upper purchases

Konrad Diede was one of the twelve trades that, at the instigation of Landgrave Philipp, founded a trade union for the mining and boiling of alum , and on January 27, 1555 received the license to set up an alum factory in Oberkaufungen . In addition to Konrad Diede, Anton von Wersabe, Christoph Hülsing, Eberhard / Ebert von Bruch and Johann Homberg were among the trades. The work was probably located south of the collegiate church on Dautenbach (also Allunzebach). It was leased as early as 1559 due to disagreement among the trades. Around 1700 four people were employed in the tunnel, two for preparing the lye and filling up the heaps and two in the boiling huts. Operations ceased in 1714. It is not entirely clear whether it was due to the lack of wood to burn, whether the deposit was exhausted or whether it was due to competition from the nearby Freudenthal alum plant.

Progenitor of the sex

Since a few years after his death the older line of Diede with Balthasar (Balzer) Diede zum Fürstenstein on Wellingerode († 1576), his father's brother, expired and since his brother Philipp's marriage to Balthasar Diede's daughter Margarethe did not result in any children Konrad Diede became the progenitor of all later Diede zum Fürstenstein . As early as 1557, Balthasar Diede and his relatives took great care in making arrangements to transfer the fiefs of their older line to the younger line of Konrad; These arrangements were then concluded with the contract between Maria von Herda and the heirs of Konrad Diede in 1577 and its execution in 1579.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Johannes Herrman (Ed.): Political correspondence of the Duke and Elector Moritz von Sachsen. Fourth volume. Akademieverlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-000748-6 , pp. 543-545. (Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Volume 72)
2. ↑ Johannes Herrman (Ed.): Political correspondence of the Duke and Elector Moritz von Sachsen. Sixth volume. Akademieverlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004166-8 , p. 358.
3. ↑ Johannes Herrman (Ed.): Political correspondence of the Duke and Elector Moritz von Sachsen. Sixth volume. Akademieverlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004166-8 , p. 337.
4. ↑ "Leimbach (Upper, Middle, Lower), Schwalm-Eder District" - Property section. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 8, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
5. ^ ND Diede zum Fürstenstein 1565, Immichenhain. Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 15, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Holzburg, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
7. ↑ Wikisource: Topographia Hassiae : Ziegenberg
8. ↑ A landgrave's right to redeem the property, which had existed since the loan to Jost von Drachsdorf, was never realized.
9. ^ The alum and coal mine Freudenthal ("Alte Hütte" - around 1700 to 1828/1926) and the alum and coal mine in Mittelthal ("Neue Hütte" - 1751 to 1924). on: uni-kassel.de

literature

• General encyclopedia of sciences and arts, Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1837 (p.167-168)