County Sayn-Hachenburg
The county of Sayn-Hachenburg was a direct imperial territory of the Holy Roman Empire in the area of the Westerwald in today's Rhineland-Palatinate . The county was created in 1652 by dividing the inheritance from the county of Sayn .
history
The Counts of Sayn built Hachenburg Castle in the Westerwald around 1200 to protect an old trade route . It soon became the center of administration in County Sayn. After the older line of the Counts of Sayn had expired in 1606, Hachenburg came to the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn .
After the death of the last count in 1636, the county was divided into Sayn-Altenkirchen and Sayn-Hachenburg. The latter came after a long dispute with the Electorate of Cologne in 1649 with Countess Louise Juliane ("The Countess of Sayn"), through her second daughter Ernestine by marriage to the Count of Manderscheid -Blankenheim and in 1714 to the Burgraves of Kirchberg . In 1799 the county fell to the princes of Nassau-Weilburg . In connection with the formation of the Rhine Confederation (1806), Sayn-Hachenburg fell together with Sayn-Altenkirchen to the newly established Duchy of Nassau .
The county belonged to the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire and the Counts to the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire Count College . Around 1800 the territory had around 250 km² with around 12,000 inhabitants.
The county extended over the core area around Hachenburg (the Hachenburg office ), the Bann Maxsain , a share of the Grund Seel- and Burbach (the Neunkirchen office ) ( condominium ) and the parishes of Birnbach , Flammersfeld , Hamm and Schöneberg (the Schöneberg office ). The parishes mentioned were ceded to Prussia in 1815 . The remaining area remained with the Duchy of Nassau until 1866, came to Prussia in 1866 and became part of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 .
literature
- Matthias Dahlhoff: History of the County of Sayn. , Dillenburg 1874.
- Finding aid for the transmission in the main state archive Wiesbaden: Hellmuth Gensicke (edit.): Grafschaft Sayn-Hachenburg, files , (repertories of the Hessian main state archive Wiesbaden 340), ed. from the Hessian Main State Archive Wiesbaden and from the Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1979.
- Markus Müller: Municipalities and State in the Reichsgrafschaft Sayn-Hachenburg 1652–1799 , (Contributions to the history of Nassau and the State of Hesse, Vol. 3), plus Siegen Univ. Diss. 2004. Historical commission for Nassau : Wiesbaden 2005. ISBN 978-3-930221-14-1 (research work with special consideration of internal development).
- Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen, 58th year, 2015, pp. 74–80.
- Daniel Schneider: The estates in the county of Sayn as well as in Sayn-Altenkirchen and Sayn-Hachenburg , in: Yearbook for West German State History, 33rd year, 2007, pp. 213-229.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Negotiations of the State Deputy Assembly by resolution ..., Volume 1 , 1836, page 582