Kurpräzipium

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The Kurpräzipium , also called Kurpräzipuum , was the part of the country used in the territories of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire , which was always associated with the electoral dignity and should be inalienable. Its function corresponds to that of a precipitate in general, to have a privilege to take something before others.

The Kurpräzipium in the Electoral Palatinate

In particular, the Kurpräzipium was the part of the state in the Electoral Palatinate territories on the Rhine and in the Upper Palatinate , which had been divided into side lines since the later Middle Ages, and which was to be indivisible and inalienable with the Palatinate electoral dignity .

In 1368, after the legacy between Ruprecht I and Ruprecht II, the Wittelsbach territories were established for the firstborn from the Palatinate line , which were supposed to connect the Upper Palatinate with the Rhine Palatinate through all possible partitions. Ruprecht II continued this determination as elector and finally determined the cities of Amberg , Kemnath , Nabburg , Neunburg vorm Wald , the castles Murach and Waldeck to be the electoral council. The remaining territories of the Palatinate were to belong to the sons who were born later as fiefdoms from the eldest brother.

With the Thirty Years' War the end of the Palatinate Kurpräzipium came. Count Palatine Frederick V , the so-called "Winter King", had himself elected king by the Protestant estates of the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1619 , which earned him the ban of the Empire and the loss of all his lands. Maximilian I of Bavaria , at the head of an army of the Catholic League , defeated the army of Frederick V in the Battle of White Mountain ; its areas, the Electoral Palatinate and the Upper Palatinate , were declared ownerless by the emperor. Since Maximilian had spent 13 million guilders on the Reich and the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II for this campaign, the land ob der Enns (later Upper Austria) was first assigned to him as a pledge, which was then pledged against the electoral dignity (1623) and against the Upper Palatinate (1628) was exchanged. With that the whole Upper Palatinate came permanently to Old Bavaria .

literature

  • Karl Bosl : The Electoral Palatinate territory "Upper Palatinate". In: ders .: Upper Palatinate and Upper Palatinate. Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1978, pp. 209–231, and ibid .: Maximilian I. Bavaria's great Elector , pp. 281–286.