Rappershausen

Rappershausen community Hendungen Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 33 ″ E
Height :	376 m
Residents :	268 (1987)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	97640
Area code :	09764
Location of Rappershausen in Bavaria

Rappershausen is a district of Hendungen in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld ( Bavaria ) in the immediate vicinity of Thuringia .

Geographical location

The parish village is located in the Lower Franconian part of the Grabfeld in the northernmost district of Bavaria. The Uttenhausen desert is located about a kilometer south .

history

12-14 century

The place Rappershausen was first mentioned in 1158. In this document, Emperor Friedrich I confirmed the transfer of ownership of Rappershausen and the approximately one kilometer south of Uttenhausen to the Bildhausen Monastery , which was donated in 1156 by Friedrich's uncle, Count Palatine Hermann von Stahleck . Between 1158 and 1350, part of Rappershausen must have come into the possession of the Counts of Henneberg , although the exact circumstances can no longer be clarified. During the division of Henneberg in 1274, the area of Uttenhausen and half of Rappershausen came to the county of Henneberg- Hartenberg, which had its headquarters on the Hartenburg in nearby Römhild . The other half of Rappershausen was owned by the Fulda Monastery at that time .

Berthold von Henneberg-Hartenberg enfeoffed Wilhelm von Maßbach with Uttenhausen and probably also half of Rappershausen. From this, Count Hermann IV of Henneberg-Aschach (* before 1342; † May 26, 1378) and his brother Berthold bought the place after the death of their cousin Berthold von Henneberg-Hartenberg in 1378. He had his property in 1371 Henneberg-Aschach line sold. The abbot and the convent of Bildhausen announced on December 2nd, 1379 that Count Hermann von Henneberg-Aschach had transferred the village of Uttenhausen to them with the consent of his brother Berthold, Canon of Bamberg. Count Hermann von Henneberg-Aschach and his brother Berthold reserved all sovereign rights.

15.-16. century

Around 1466, Rappershausen came into the possession of the Marschalke von Ostheim zu Waltershausen through marriage . In 1488, the Würzburg cathedral provost Kilian von Bibra told the pastor of Hendungen how often he had to undertake which spiritual acts in the Rappershausen branch .

Through two divisions of the Henneberg-Aschach line in 1468 and 1532, the sovereignty of Rappershausen came to Count Berthold XVI as part of the Römhild office . von Henneberg-Römhild , who sold his property to the Counts of Mansfeld in 1548 . They sold the office of Römhild with Rappershausen in 1555 to the Ernestine Wettins . This year Uttenhausen was already considered a desert .

Rappershausen's parish town of Hendungen , which came to the Henneberg- Schwarza line when the Henneberg-Aschacher lines were divided in 1532 , fell to the Lutheran Count Wilhelm VI after the death of the Catholic Count Albrecht von Henneberg-Schwarza in 1549. from Henneberg-Schleusingen. After the principle of Cuius regio, eius religio had been adopted in the Augsburg Religious Peace in 1555 , Lutheran-Henneberg visitors examined the then Catholic pastor in Hendungen in 1557 , chased him away and replaced him with a Lutheran preacher. After the Counts of Henneberg died out in 1583 , the Wettins received the County of Henneberg, which meant that Rappershausen and Hendungen were now in Saxon hands. But that only lasted three years, since Hendungen went to the Würzburg Monastery in accordance with the Schleusinger Treaty in 1586 and immediately became Catholic again as a result of the Counter-Reformation . Thereupon the gentlemen of Bibra withdrew the evangelical place Bahra from Hendungen , which they owned , and made it a branch of the parish town Rappershausen. The taxes that had previously flowed to the pastor in Hendungen were also to go to Rappershausen from then on. In 1598 there was therefore a lawsuit before the Reich Chamber of Commerce, although Hendungen “did not obtain a favorable judgment”.

17.-18. century

Due to inheritance divisions, Rappershausen and the desert of Uttenhausen belonged to Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach from 1572 as part of the Römhild office , from 1596 to Saxe-Coburg and from 1633 back to Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach. In 1633 Philipp Albrecht Truchseß von Wetzhausen zu Sternberg bought half of Rappershausen from the Voit family from Salzburg . On February 15, 1637 he acquired the other half and the Bahra branch from Hans Kaspar von Bibra zu Höchheim , Rudolph von Hanstein and Georg Rudolph Mellen zu Haina .

The state rule over Rappershausen came in 1640 to Sachsen-Altenburg . On January 26, 1665, the property of Philipp Albrecht Truchseß von Wetzhausen auf Sternberg was divided between his sons Wolff Dietrich and Joachim Ernst, the lot deciding who should receive which share. Rappershausen came to Joachim Ernst (1624–1709).

The sovereignty over the place belonged from 1672 to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha -Altenburg and from 1680 to Saxe-Römhild . After the death of the Duke of Sachsen-Römhild, sovereignty over the Amt Römhild was divided between Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1/3) and Sachsen-Meiningen (2/3) in 1710 . In 1757 Rappershausen was sold to the barons Karl and Philipp August von Stein zu Nordheim . Through these noble possessions in the village, Rappershausen was largely withdrawn from state rule through the imperial knighthood up to the imperial deputation principal in 1803.

19th century to the present

The “cleaning contract” between the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and Saxony-Meiningen, which was signed on June 20, 1808, regulated the border between the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and the ducal Saxon-Meiningian and Saxon-Romanhildic area anew, whereby both the place Rappershausen and the Uttenhausen desert were ceded to Würzburg. It was expressly pointed out that the right of succession of Würzburg, agreed in the Schleusingen Treaty of July 19, 1586, continued to exist.

With the dissolution of the Rhine Confederation in 1814 and the resolution of the Congress of Vienna , most of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipality of Rappershausen was created with the municipal edict of 1818 . From 1817 the place belonged to the Lower Main District , which was renamed Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg in 1838, later just Lower Franconia . Rappershausen has been in the Free State of Bavaria since 1918 .

On July 1, 1972, the district of Mellrichstadt , to which Rappershausen belonged at that time, was incorporated into the district of Bad Neustadt an der Saale as part of the regional reform in Bavaria with the district of Königshofen im Grabfeld, which was also dissolved . On May 1, 1973, this new district was given its current name Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld . On July 1, 1976, the municipalities of Rappershausen joined the administrative community of Mellrichstadt by ordinance of the government of Lower Franconia . On May 1, 1978, Rappershausen was incorporated into the community of Hendungen.

Culture and sights

Individual evidence

^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 741 .

Web links

Description of the Römhild office in Henneberg

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-1] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 741 .