Reign of Olbrück

Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
Reign of Olbrück
coat of arms
Alternative names	Lordship of Ollbrück
Ruler / government	Mr
Today's region / s	DE-RP
Parliament	Reichsfürstenrat , Secular Bank: Part of a curate vote of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Count College
Reichskreis	Upper Rhine
District council	Bank of the Counts and Lords
Capitals / residences	Olbrück Castle
Dynasties	House of Wied (Altwied); Waldbott from Bassenheim
Language / n	German
surface	4 km²
Residents	3000
Incorporated into	French department de la Sarre 1801; Prussian Rhine Province 1815

The rule Olbrück (also Ollbrück ) was a rich direct rule of the Holy Roman Empire in the upper Brohltal .

history

Olbrück Castle

Olbrück Castle, aerial view

The Olbrück Castle , built around 1100, was the center of imperial rule Olbrück to the villages in the immediate vicinity were:

• Brenk with fox hell
• Galenberg
• Grove with the ruins of Olbrück
• Hannebach and Wollscheid (today districts of Spessart )
• Niederdürenbach with Rodder
• Niederzissen
• Oberdürenbach with Büschhöfe and Schelborn
• Oberweiler (today part of the hamlet of Burgbrohl, Weiler)
• Oberzissen

1190 was Dietrich I of Wied the castle the Cologne Archbishop Philip I of Heinsberg for 400 marks to feud on. When the older line of the House of Wied died out in 1244, the rule became inheritance of numerous families such as the Eppstein , Braunsberg , Eich and (from 1555) Waldbott von Bassenheim . In 1735 the Waldbott von Bassenheim family dissolved the inheritance and divided the Olbrück rule under the lines of Bassenheim and Bornheim. The Waldbott von Bassenheim family also owned the neighboring Königsfeld estate .

At the end of the 18th century, the rule belonged to the Upper Rhine Empire with 1.5 square miles . The rule was occupied by revolutionary France in the course of the First Coalition War in 1794 and the rule was effectively smashed. With the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801, rule was also ceded to France under international law.

See also

• List of the dominions (territories) of Germany

literature

• Wolfgang Dietz: Castle and Lordship of Olbrück. The rise and fall of one of the oldest castles in the Eifel . 3. Edition. Self-published, Galenberg 2001. [not evaluated]
• Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 493.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 488/489

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '2.5 "  N , 7 ° 10' 11.8"  E