Muckenschopf

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Muckenschopf (Mückenschopf) is a district of Lichtenau , a town in the Rastatt district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

middle Ages

Muckenschopf was in the Lichtenau office of the Lichtenberg rule . The village was allodial property, no previous owners can be identified. In 1335, the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg divided the country. The Lichtenau office - and with it Muckenschopf - fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house.

Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474) was the daughter of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), one of two heirs with claims to the rule of Lichtenberg . In 1458 she married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417, † 1480), who had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The office Lichtenau belonged to the part of Lichtenberg that the descendants of Philipp and Anna inherited.

Early modern age

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 Lichtenau with Muckenschopf - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) Of Hesse-Darmstadt . In the 18th century Muckenschopf was administered as part of Lichtenau.

Modern times

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the office and Muckenschopf were assigned to the newly formed Electorate of Baden in 1803 .

On January 1, 1974 Muckenschopf was incorporated into Lichtenau.

societies

  • Table tennis club Muckenschopf eV

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).
  • Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eyer, pp. 99, 239.
  2. ↑ Eyer, pp. 28, 114.
  3. ↑ Eyer, pp. 79f.
  4. ↑ Knöpp, p. 13.
  5. ^ 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. 483 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 38.2 "  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 17.8"  E