Reitwiller

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Reitwiller
Reitwiller coat of arms
Reitwiller (France)
Reitwiller
local community Berstett
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Saverne
Coordinates 48 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 37 ′  E
Post Code 67370
Incorporation 1972

Rue de la Laiterie

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Reitwiller is now a district of the French commune of Berstett in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

history

middle Ages

The village was originally called "Routebur". Reitweiler belonged as an allod as early as the 13th century. the Lords of Lichtenberg . They assigned it to the Buchsweiler office , which arose at the beginning of the 14th century as an office of the Lichtenberg rule . The reason for this may have been the two divisions that took place in the Lichtenberg house around 1330 and in 1335. Half of Reitweiler fell to Johann II von Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and - here the source is contradicting - either to the descendants of Johann III, who died early . von Lichtenberg , who founded the middle line of the house or to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg and the younger line.

Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), daughter of Ludwig V. von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), and one of two heirs with claims to the rule, married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen in 1458 (* 1417; † 1480). He had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Buchsweiler office - and thus Reitweiler - belonged to the part of Hanau-Lichtenberg that Anna's descendants inherited. The local coat of arms makes direct reference to the coat of arms of the County of Hanau .

Modern times

Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran .

With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Buchsweiler office came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, Hanau-Lichtenberg - and with it the Buchsweiler office - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , Reitweiler became French. In 1798 the village had 238 inhabitants.

literature

Mill
  • Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
  • M. Goltzené and A. Matt: From the history of the office Buchsweiler and the gentlemen from Hanau-Lichtenberg . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (ed.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 63-72.
  • Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
  • Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.

Web links

Commons : Reitwiller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Eyer, p. 112.
  2. Eyer, pp. 53, 111.
  3. Eyer, p. 238.
  4. Eyer, pp. 78-80.
  5. ^ Matt, p. 7.