Renchenloch

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Renchenloch is a deserted village in the district of Memprechtshofen , a district of the city of Rheinau (Baden) .

Geographical location

The desert is located in the area of ​​today's Maierhof in Memprechtshofen.

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Renchenloch comes from 1279. The village of Renchenloch was in the Lichtenau district of the Lichtenberg domain . Renchenloch was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Strasbourg , the first feudal lending probably took place in 1274. In 1335, the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg divided the country. The Lichtenau office - and with it Renchenloch - fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house.

Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474) was the daughter of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), one of two heirs with claims to the rule of Lichtenberg . In 1458 she married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417, † 1480), who 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 office Lichtenau belonged to the part of Lichtenberg that the descendants of Philipp and Anna inherited.

Early modern age

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 .

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , In 1736 the inheritance - and with it the office of Lichtenau with Renchenloch - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) Von Hessen-Darmstadt .

Modern times

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the Amt and Renchenloch were assigned to the newly formed Electorate of Baden in 1803 . In the course of time the village had shrunk to a single farm, today's Maierhof , which in older sources also bears the name Maienhof or Rencherlochhof .

literature

  • 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).
  • 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].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knöpp, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Eyer, pp. 99, 239.
  3. ↑ Eyer, pp. 56, 141.
  4. ↑ Eyer, pp. 56, 145.
  5. ↑ Eyer, pp. 79f.
  6. ↑ Knöpp, p. 13.

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 39.6 ″  E