Lenhausen Patrimonial Court
The Lenhausen Patrimonial Court was a ruling and judicial district within the Duchy of Westphalia , whose beginnings go back to the 14th century. Towards the end of the 17th century, the owners also received high jurisdiction. In 1802 the patrimonial court fell to the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt as part of the duchy as part of the secularization . In 1807, when the new offices were formed, he assigned it to the Attendorn office and curtailed his rights. The last owner renounced the court, which had meanwhile become meaningless, in 1840.
history
The Lenhausen Patrimonial Court was originally a fiefdom of the Counts of Arnsberg, who exercised power and influence in the Lenhausen area until the 14th century. The first evidence for the patrimonial court comes from the year 1342, when the von Lenhausen brothers made their castle there the open house of the archbishops of Cologne. With the sale of the county of Arnsberg to the Cologne electors in 1368, Lenhausen was also included in the official constitution in the Duchy of Westphalia . Since that time it was part of the Waldenburg office . The lower jurisdiction was initially associated with the Lenhausen manor. In 1697 the nobles of Plettenberg zu Lenhausen received high jurisdiction in Lenhausen, Rönkhausen and on the Fretter from the elector of Cologne to the lower. Since then, the nobles have also claimed the Bergregal in this area, which has led to legal disputes with the Hofrat in Bonn that have lasted for decades. The occasion was the establishment of hammer mills, for which the Lords of Plettenberg claimed tax exemption. A few years after the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt took possession of the Duchy of Westphalia in 1802, the Patrimonial Court was subordinated to the Office of Attendorn during the reorganization of the offices in the Duchy of Westphalia and its jurisdiction was curtailed. Formally, it remained in existence until the last owner gave up in 1840.
Limits
The Eslohe office was adjacent to the patrimonial court in the east , while it was adjacent to the Gogericht Attendorn, located in the same office Waldenburg, in the south. In the west it came up against the Brandenburg office of Plettenberg , which was joined by the Stockum court in the north . The patrimonial court included the places Lenhausen , Rönkhausen and Fretter and belonged to the parish of Schönholthausen.
Owner of the Patrimonial Court
- 1342 Herman, Rütgers, Rolf and Heinrich von Lenhausen
- 1420 Rutgerus dictus Lenyngh
- 1448 Herman and Rütger van Lenhusen
- 1653 Bernard and Johann Dietrich von Plettenberg zu Lenhausen
- 1697 Ferdinand von Plettenberg zu Lenhausen
- 1698 Moritz Heinrich von Plettenberg zu Lenhausen
- 1801 Count von Plettenberg zu Lenhausen
- 1840 Joseph Franz von Plettenberg zu Lenhausen
literature
- Günter Becker / Hans Mieles: Bilstein - country, castle and place. Contributions to the history of the Lennestadt area and the former rule of Bilstein, Lennestadt 1975.
- Albert Hömberg: Ecclesiastical and secular state organization (parish system and court system) in the original parish areas of southern Westphalia, Münster 1967.
- Helmut Müller: The Territorial Archive of the Duchy of Westphalia Vol. 1, Münster 2006.
- Franz Rinschen (ed.): Historical news about the parish of Schönholthausen, 2nd edition, Schönholthausen 2009.
- Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802 - 1816, Olpe 1966.
- Elisabeth Schumacher: Cologne's Westphalia in the Age of Enlightenment, Olpe 1967.