Niederbetschdorf

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Niederbetschdorf today is a district of Betschdorf , a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the French region of Grand Est (2015 Alsace ). Until 1971 Niederbetschdorf was an independent municipality.

history

middle Ages

The village of Niederbetschdorf initially belonged to the Landgraviate of Alsace and was in the Hattgau . In 1332 the Lords of Lichtenberg bought it together with a number of other villages and rights. It was an imperial fief that they assigned to the Amt Hatten (also: Hattgau ). The office of Hatten was formed in the 14th century and was an office of the Lichtenberg rule , from 1480 the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , from which it was transferred to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1736 .

The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg emerged through the marriage: Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474) married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417; † 1480) in 1458. He had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. After the death of the last male Lichtenberger, Count Jakob, an uncle of Anna, Philip I d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. This also included the Office of Hatten and with it Niederbetschdorf.

Modern times

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 .

Due to France's reunification policy , around 1680 , the parts of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Alsace fell under the sovereignty of France , as did the Amt of Hatten and Niederbetschdorf.

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there.

In 1760 the local church was rebuilt, with only the Gothic choir remaining from the previous building.

As a result of the French Revolution , the left bank of the Hanau-Lichtenberg county - and thus Niederbetschdorf - fell to France. In 1798 the village had 100 inhabitants.

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).
  • Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . 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 7-9.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eyer, p. 81.
  2. ↑ Eyer, p. 61.
  3. ↑ Eyer, pp. 128, 132.
  4. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  5. ↑ Kathrin Ellwardt: Lutherans between France and the Empire: Church buildings in the Alsatian offices of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg under Johann Reinhard III. and Louis IX. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2016, pp. 18–59 (42).
  6. ^ Matt, p. 7.

Coordinates: 48 ° 53  '52.9 " N , 7 ° 54' 53.9"  E