Lichtenau care office

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Coordinates: 49 °  N , 11 °  E

The Lichtenau Fortress, the former administrative seat of the Lichtenau Care Office
The nuremberg nursing authority in Lichtenau

The Lichtenau Nursing Office was one of the areas that at times comprised more than a dozen care offices with which the Imperial City of Nuremberg organized the administration of its territorial property. The official residence of the Pflegamtes formed the north east of Lichtenau located fortress Lichtenau , which thus was eponymous for this management area.

history

Originally located on a river island in the Franconian Rezat , it was first mentioned in 1246. The castle and the associated market came into the possession of the imperial city of Nuremberg through purchase by the Hohenstaufen imperial bailiffs von Dornberg and the lords von Heideck in 1406. The blood spell over the place could be acquired by the Nuremberg citizen Wilhelm Rummel and later became the property of the inner council of the imperial city.

For the margraves of the Hohenzollern Brandenburg-Ansbach , the Lichtenau maintenance department - but above all the fortress in the northern part of the village - was a constant nuisance. Because the location not far from their own residential town, Ansbach , was not only a considerable one for them strategic threat, but also a direct military threat. The Brandenburg-Ansbach margraves therefore repeatedly questioned the imperial city's right to the ban on blood over Lichtenau. In addition, they tried from time to time to purchase the Lichtenau nursing office. However, the imperial city always rejected all of the advances in this regard.

In the Second Margrave War , the castle complex was captured by the Ansbach margrave's troops in 1552 and destroyed as a result of this conquest, but the Ansbach margraves were unable to take permanent possession of the fortress town.

After the destruction in the course of the Second Margrave War, the imperial city of Nuremberg arranged for the Lichtenau fortress to be rebuilt as a modern pentagonal fortress. The reconstruction of the Lichtenau fortifications dragged on until 1630 and was associated with considerable costs for the imperial city. The rebuilt fortress was finally the official seat of the keeper of Lichtenau in the following period.

Towards the end of the 18th century, the Lichtenau nursing office can be described as follows:

The Lichtenau nursing office in the imperial city of Nuremberg had the full sovereignty ( high court , lower court outside the Etter , church sovereignty , tax sovereignty , village and community rule , etc.) over the following places: Ballmannshof , Fischbach , Herpersdorf , Immeldorf , Malmersdorf , Milmersdorf , Rutzendorf , Saxony bei Ansbach , Stritthof , Volkersdorf , Waltendorf , Weickershof , Zandt , Zandtmühle . Besides the village and community rulership (DGH), the maintenance office had the following places: Boxbrunn (DGH: Stiftsamt Ansbach ), Büschelbach (without DGH), Gotzendorf with Erlenmühle and Gotzenmühle (DGH: Stadtvogteiamt Eschenbach ), Langenlohe (DGH: Rittergut Frohnhof) ), Rückersdorf (without DGH), Unterrottmannsdorf , Wattenbach (DGH: Heilsbronn Monastery Administration Office ).

The Pflegamt Lichtenau had in the following places manors (in brackets the number of property is stated):

In most places, foreign rulers also exercised manorial rule over individual properties.

Until the end of the imperial city of Nuremberg, the nursing office of Nuremberg shared the fate of this territory and only came into the possession of the Kingdom of Bavaria together with the imperial city in 1806 . The Lichtenau nursing office was merged into the newly formed Heilsbronn district court .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Jehle, Vol. 2, p. 816.