Mederich (Volkmarsen)

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Mederich (historically also Mederike, Medrike, Mederke, Methriki, Medricki, Medrecke) is a former, desolate village in the Volkmarsen district , about 3 km west of the core town of Volkmarsen in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

location

The small place was in the depression where the road 3081 from Volkmarsen to Herbsen crosses the wall today , about 300 m northwest of the Mederich chapel, which was later built on the site of the former church of Mederich.

history

The place was first mentioned in 870, and was later the seat of a Goger othing . In December 887, King Arnulf gave the Corvey Abbey the fishing rights in Methriki and the surrounding area, along with all the farms and people involved in fishing. In 965, Emperor Otto I gave the Mauritian monastery in Magdeburg with the imperial certificate No. 282 the royal court Rosbach ( Rösebeck ) in the Saxon Hessengau with the associated places Westuffeln , Burguffeln , Heckershausen , Medrike, Niederelsungen , Gottsbüren and a stage with churches and all other accessories. In the year 1056 Mederich, like the neighboring Wittmar , which is also desert today , is listed in the property register of Corvey Abbey under Abbot Saracho .

No later than the 13th century built the from 1209 documentary mentioned lower nobles of Mederike, the fief of the Counts of Everstein the Gografenamt occupied, then take Allodbesitz a small, now completely disappeared Wasserburg , but rather had the character of a fortified court. The castle Mederike is 1236 and 1269 mentioned as seat of the family of the same name. In 1251 the knight Dietrich von Mederike (Theodericus miles de Medrike) was one of the witnesses when the brothers Dietrich and Conrad Groppe von Gudenberg confirmed the donation of the church in Wittmar by their father Dietrich to the Aroldessen monastery . In 1294 Count Otto I von Waldeck enfeoffed the knight Dietrich von Mederike with a quarter of the tithe in Wetter . The castle is mentioned again in 1318 when two brothers von Mederike, Dieter and Dietrich, divided up an inheritance, and in July 1324 Archbishop Heinrich of Cologne bought the opening of the castle, which had not previously been part of a feudal association. In 1336 the knight Herbold von Mederich was notarized when Corvey Abbey pledged half of the city of Volkmarsen and the Kugelsburg to him, Johan Runst and the city council. Around 1339 Bodo de Brunhardessen was Gograf in the court of Mederich. In 1386 Herbord von Mederich transferred his rights to Mederich Castle to Archbishop Friedrich III. from Cologne.

After the Lords of Mederike had died out in their male line in 1405 at the latest, their fiefs held by the Counts of Everstein were given by Count Hermann VIII in 1405 to the knight Rabe von Coglenberg (= Kugelsburg ). Later the aristocratic families Gudenberg , Wolff von Gudenberg , von der Malsburg and Reineck had property or feudal rights there. As late as 1779, the von der Malsburg, then inheritance of the Corvey Monastery, had 4.5 Hufen zu Mederich and 14 Kothöfe as fiefs.

It is believed that the castle was destroyed around 1410, possibly because it had degenerated into a robber baron's nest. It must have been destroyed by fire, as considerable amounts of charred grain were found during the reclamation of the meadows there. The last remains were broken off around 1820. In 1929 ramparts and moats were still visible, but in 1989 the castle could only be localized by means of the discoloration of the ground. The place is still called “Auf der Burg” today.

The residents of the few farms and cottages probably moved to Volkmarsen. Today only field names and the small chapel at L 3081 remind of the place.

Goo dish

Mederich seat was a major Goger othing which, according to a directory Corveyischer tithes in the area state the Count of Everstein. These gave the office to the Lords of Mederike. In January 1324 Bodo von Brunhardessen was then named as a gographer in Mederich. A lapel of March 2, 1339 indicates that he did not administer the office in his own right, but does not say who had given him the office of geographer; one count who took part in this court is only mentioned without giving a name. The Eversteiners had largely left this area by this time. It may therefore already have been the Counts of Waldeck ; the Gogericht in Mederich is in fact later notarized as Waldecksches. Count Otto IV von Waldeck freed the citizens of Rhoden from the jurisdiction of this court in 1479, and in 1527 Friedrich von Twiste from Waldeck's side held the Gogericht in Mederich. The court area seems to have been of considerable size if one considers the three places of justice at which the Mederich gographer was supposed to hold court once a year (Mederich, Massenhausen and Esbeck ) as the places of painting of the gografschaft. It would have extended beyond Arolsen to Massenhausen and as far as Adorf and Esbeck. The court is no longer mentioned in a land register for the county of Waldeck, recorded in 1541, and the places that could have belonged to it are assigned to the free chair in Mengeringhausen .

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 37 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Arnold: Settlements and migrations of German tribes: mostly after Hessian place names. 2nd edition. Elwert, Marburg, 1881 (p. 136)
  2. ↑ These historical names have also been partially adopted by some historical researchers for the Westphalian Meyerich , a current district of Welver near Soest .
  3. ↑ Spilcker, p. 147
  4. ↑ H. Dürre: The place names of the Traditiones Corbeiensis. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity, volumes 40-42 , Association for the history and antiquity of Westphalia (p. 15)
  5. ↑ Spilcker, p. 148
  6. ^ History of Rösebeck ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.roesebeck.net
  7. ↑ Knappe: Medieval Castles in Hessen , p. 31.
  8. ↑ Spilcker, 1833 (para. XCI)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.geschichte-polle.de  
  9. ↑ Georg Landau: Historical-topographical description of the desert places in the Electorate of Hesse. Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Seventh Supplement. Theodor Fischer, Kassel, 1858, p. 49
  10. ↑ Spilcker, pp. 148, 149
  11. ↑ Spilcker, p. 149
  12. ↑ Ludwig Theodor August Holscher: The older diocese Paderborn, according to its old borders, archdeaconates, districts and old courts. Part VI: Archidiaconat Warburg. In: Association for history and antiquity of Westphalia (ed.): Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , vol. 41, Regensberg, Münster, 1883, p. 188
  13. ^ Regest of the Archbishops of Cologne 9, No. 1158
  14. ↑ Spilcker, p. 148
  15. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , 7th volume, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig, 1867 (p. 433)
  16. ↑ Drought: The place names ... (p. 15)
  17. ↑ Mederich Chapel, at the Catholic parish of St. Marien Volkmarsen
  18. ↑ Spilcker, p. 151
  19. ↑ Ludwig Theodor August Holscher: The older diocese Paderborn, according to its old borders, archdeaconates, districts and old courts. Part VI: Archidiaconat Warburg. In: Association for history and antiquity of Westphalia (ed.): Journal for patriotic history and antiquity, vol. 41, Regensberg, Münster, 1883 (pp. 200-201)

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