Land chapter Roßdorf

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The Landkapitel Roßdorf (also: Ruralkapitel Roßdorf ) was a pre-Reformation ecclesiastical administrative unit of the middle level in the Archdiocese of Mainz . It had its seat in the eponymous Roßdorf , today a district of Bruchköbel .

organization

Superordinate bodies

The Roßdorf regional chapter, headed by an archpriest , was subordinate to the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz and thus to the Archbishop of Mainz .

Subordinate institutions

To the country chapter Roßdorf included the churches and chapels of Aufenau , Bischofsheim , Bruchköbel Dörnigheim , oaks , Gelnhausen , Niedergründau , Hirzbach , Hochstadt , Kesselstadt , Kilianstädten , Langendiebach , Marköbel , Mittelbuchen , Niederissigheim , Oberdorfelden , Oberissigheim , Orb , Ostheim , Roßdorf , Rückingen , Rüdigheim , Steinau an der Straße , Udenhain , Wachenbuchen , Wächtersbach , Windecken and the Himmelau monastery in Gelnhausen.

history

It is not known when the Landkapitel Roßdorf was established. In 1212 it took its seat in Roßdorf . With the Reformation , a large part of the area of ​​responsibility, as far as it was in the county of Hanau- Munzenberg, including the seat of Roßdorf, was lost. Here the consistory in Hanau organized the "Windecken class", the Windecken deanery, as the successor institution for the municipalities in the county .

literature

  • Ingrid Dallmeyer: Chronicle of the city of Bruchköbel and its districts of Roßdorf, Niederissigheim, Oberissigheim and Butterstadt . Bruchköbel 1989.
  • Wilhelm Dersch: Hessian monastery book. Source studies on the history of the founders, monasteries and branches of religious cooperatives founded in the administrative district of Kassel, in the Grafschaft Schaumburg district, in the province of Upper Hesse and in the Biedenkopf district . 2nd ed. 1940. ND 2000, p. 136.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the parish Hanau ( "Hanauer Union") and 1986 , part 1 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse Marburg 33. 1984, p 309; according to other information ( Roßdorf, Main-Kinzig-Kreis. Historical local lexicon for Hessen. (As of June 25, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).) 1216 is mentioned.