Legelshurst

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Legelshurst
Willstätt municipality
Legelshurst Coat of Arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 10 "  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 53"  E
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 77731

Legelshurst is a district of Willstätt , a municipality in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .

Surname

Legelshurst is one of the Horst places.

history

middle Ages

The district of Legelshurst was settled as early as the 8th century. The oldest surviving mention, however, comes from 1294, when the settlement already belonged to the Lichtenberg rule . Legelshurst was an allod of the Lords of Lichtenberg . How they acquired it is unknown. Around 1330 there was a first division of land between Johann II. Von Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and Ludwig III. from Lichtenberg . Legelshurst fell into the part of the property that was administered in the future by the older line. In the rule of Lichtenberg it was assigned to the office of Willstätt .

When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance passed to his two nieces, Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474) and Elisabeth von Lichtenberg. Anna had married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417, † 1480) in 1458, who had received a small secondary education from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to get married. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . Elisabeth married Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Lichtenberg legacy was shared between them. The Willstätt office and thus Legelshurst became a condominium between the two heirs.

In today's district of Legelshurst and the formerly independent village was seat Hofen , which in the 15th century like desolation is.

Modern times

Under the government of Count Philip III. From Hanau-Lichtenberg there was a real division of the common condominiums: The Willstätt office came entirely to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg. In return, the Brumath office came entirely to Zweibrücken-Bitsch. Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran .

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, the inheritance - and with it the office of Willstätt - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the office of Willstätt with the village of Legelshurst was assigned to the newly formed Electorate of Baden in 1803 .

On January 1, 1975 Legelshurst including Bolshurst and Hiltrachtshofen was incorporated into Willstätt.

literature

  • Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
  • Wilhelm Mechler: The territory of the Lichtenberger to the right of the Rhine . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 31-37.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eyer, p. 56.
  2. ↑ Eyer, p. 115.
  3. ↑ Eyer, p. 78.
  4. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  5. ↑ Mechler, p. 34.
  6. ↑ Sitzenhofen on Leo BW.
  7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 514 .