Reichstal Harmersbach
The Reichstal Harmersbach was an imperial direct territory in the Harmersbachtal , a side valley of the Black Forest Kinzig , which existed in the late 17th and 18th centuries. It was the only "empire valley" and there was the "only free peasant republic " of the Holy Roman Empire .
history
The valley of the Harmersbachs belonged since the Middle Ages the imperial city cell at the end of the valley. After the imperial cities of Offenburg , Gengenbach and Zell were pledged to the Fürstenbergers in 1330 and to the diocese of Strasbourg in 1367 , the parts of the Harmersbach valley behind Zell were not included in the redemption in 1504, contrary to the original contractual conditions. Only Leopold I ended this pledge in 1689. Since in the meantime a separate jurisdiction (Vogtei) had developed in the valley, the residents no longer recognized Zell’s claims to the entire valley. In 1718 Zell had to renounce sovereignty over the valley, the valley community formed the Reichstal Harmersbach . As a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, both Zell (1803) and the Reichstal (1806) fell to the Electorate of Baden , which subsequently became the Grand Duchy of Baden .
literature
- Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 41.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Lexicon of German history . Events, institutions, people. From the beginning to the surrender in 1945. 3rd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-81303-3 , p. 512, keyword Harmersbach .
- ^ Eugen Hillenbrand : The free realm valley Harmersbach. About the difficult perception of history. In: Die Ortenau , Volume 83 (2003), p. 47ff.