Roedermark (Mark)
The Rödermark ( Rotaher marca or Raodora marca ) was a medieval market cooperative in the former Maingau . Today the area belongs to the Offenbach district in Hesse .
status
The Rödermark is mentioned for the first time in the Lorsch Codex in a donation to the Lorsch Abbey in 786. In 1255 the Rödermark and the Munzenberg inheritance came to the rule of Hanau (1/6) and the Lords of Eppstein , whose share later fell to the Electorate of Mainz . The Rödermark belonged to the rule, but not to the office of Babenhausen.
Villages
The following nine villages belonged to the Rödermark as market places:
- Dietzenbach
- Dudenhofen (now part of the city of Rodgau )
- Hainhausen (now part of the city of Rodgau)
- Jügesheim (now part of the city of Rodgau)
- Nieder-Roden (now part of the town of Rodgau)
- Messel
- Offenthal
- Ober-Roden (now part of the city of Rödermark )
- Urberach (now part of the city of Rödermark)
Market constitution
The market constitution regulated the use of the communal market forest. A market order was drawn up in writing in 1501. Use included the removal of firewood and construction wood as well as grazing rights. The right to hunt, however, lay with the noble landlords.
The lords and counts of Hanau on the one hand and the lords of Eppstein and later the elector-archbishops of Mainz on the other hand were the upper markets. There were Markmeister in Nieder-Roden and Dudenhofen. Every Märker (also: Mark Comrade) from the Markorten had 32 acres of land, was allowed to own 32 sheep and pigs and, within certain limits, had access to the wood from the Markwald.
In order to monitor the regulations, there were forest courts and a district forester based in Ober-Roden. The Märkergericht was superordinate. It met four times a year in front of the linden tree on Ober-Rodener Kirchplatz. Each market town had a lay judge. The Elector of Mainz and the Count of Hanau each provided a marrow judge . From 1771 the old rights of the Counts of Hanau were jointly exercised by Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kassel .
A wisdom of the Rödermark from the 16th century was published by Jacob Grimm .
Dissolution of the mark
In 1818 the Rödermark was dissolved and the Markwald was divided among the villages belonging to it. He formed the respective community forest.
In 1977 the former market towns of Ober-Roden and Urberach were merged. Following the tradition of the historic Rödermark, they chose this name for the new town.
literature
- Working group for local history Nieder-Roden e. V .: Nieder-Roden 786-1986 , 1986
- Günter Hoch: Territorial history of the eastern Dreieich . Marburg 1953, p. 119.
- Günther Keim: A sketch of the administrative and judicial structure of the Dieburger Land over the past 200 years . In: Festschrift of the district court in Dieburg on the occasion of the 75th anniversary and the inauguration of the new court building, Pfungstadt. 1981.
- District committee of the Offenbach district (ed.): History, museums, monument protection . Offenbach no year
- Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book . 1st volume (Starkenburg). Darmstadt 1937. pp. 536-539.
- Richard Wille: The last counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg . Hanau 1886. p. 60.