Niederstedten

Niederstedten is a desert in the Vordertaunus near Oberstedten and the desert in Mittelstedten near Oberursel . The place existed until 1587 and belonged to the Office Homburg .

The oldest remaining mention of Niederstedten comes from 1263.

In 1486, Gottfried X. von Eppstein, with the consent of the feudal lord , the Hessian landgrave , sold the Homburg office and the associated villages - including Niederstedten - for 19,000 guilders to Count Philipp I (the younger) von Hanau-Münzenberg . The Hanau counts did not keep the office long. In 1504 Hanau was defeated in the Landshut War of Succession , Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hesse, on the other hand, stood on the side of the victors and confiscated the office. At the Diet of Worms in 1521 a settlement was made through the mediation of Emperor Charles V.: The Counts of Hanau waived their claims in return for payment of 12,000 guilders.

Today street names in Oberstedten and Bad Homburg, as well as the field name Niederstedter Feld, remind of the former village . The field names Kirch, Kirchhof and Kirchhofslinde also refer to the place or to its church. A map from around 1600 still shows the church ruins with the linden tree .

According to their family chronicle, some hallways in the village area belonged to the Eisenberger family.

Individual evidence

^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900–1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 211 .
↑ Reinhard Michel: From the desert in the Hochtaunuskreis. In: Ingrid Berg, Eugen Ernst, Hans-Joachim Galuschka, Gerta Walsh (eds.): Heimat Hochtaunus. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pp. 163–171, here in particular p. 169.
↑ Hartmut Bock: Die Chronik Eisenberger (= writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 22). Edition and commentary. Illustrated story of a civil servant family of the German Renaissance - ascent into the Wetterau Niederadel and the Frankfurt patriciate. Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-89282-040-6 , pp. 84, 286, 300, excerpts: Die Chronik Eisenberger . (PDF; 2.2 MB).

50.22228 8.587189Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ' N , 8 ° 35' E

[1] Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900–1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 211 .

[2] Reinhard Michel: From the desert in the Hochtaunuskreis. In: Ingrid Berg, Eugen Ernst, Hans-Joachim Galuschka, Gerta Walsh (eds.): Heimat Hochtaunus. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pp. 163–171, here in particular p. 169.

[3] Hartmut Bock: Die Chronik Eisenberger (= writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 22). Edition and commentary. Illustrated story of a civil servant family of the German Renaissance - ascent into the Wetterau Niederadel and the Frankfurt patriciate. Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-89282-040-6 , pp. 84, 286, 300, excerpts: Die Chronik Eisenberger . (PDF; 2.2 MB).