Siegburg comparison
With the Siegburg settlement in 1604, a centuries-long dispute over sovereignty in the Homburg rule ended .
The origins were laid as early as 1294, when a dual government of count brothers was introduced as part of the Homburg succession, during the course of which there was a long-lasting dispute, initially between the Counts of Sayn and the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein . In addition, the Counts of Mark and Berg had gained a foothold in the Oberberg area in the second half of the 13th century and consolidated their territorial rule with the office of Windeck to the east .
The appearance of this third power in the region made Homburg an island. The complexity of the rulership structure with different taxes and compulsory labor increased considerably in the 14th century with the growing influence of the Bergische. In the localities, Saynic or Wittgenstein were mixed with Bergisch Eigenleuten (peasant serfs ). In the conflicts, in addition to lordly rights in the wilderness (hunting, fishing) or the use of water (mills, hammers, dykes), income from forests and mining was at issue. In the age of religious struggles, not least also about the influence on the churches. The most controversial issue was the exercise of jurisdiction , with the Vogtei Wiehl in the foreground as the bone of contention .
Results were not achieved in negotiations in 1492 and 1562. At the end of the 16th century, the amicable, legal or even violent disputes culminated in their decisive phase, after the repeated appeals to the Imperial Chamber Court , which apparently classified the small-state quarrels as rather unimportant, did not lead to the settlement of the ongoing dispute . In all that time, the ruled suffered the neglect and adversity of such struggles.
Finally, in 1604 in Siegburg, the decisive negotiation and settlement came about , in which the boundary was drawn between the Bergisch and Homburg territories. It remained authoritative for the later Gummersbach and Waldbröl districts until 1932, when they were merged to form the Oberbergischer Kreis .
See also
literature
- Department Oberberg of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein (Hg): Historical map. Boundaries of the Bergisches Amt Windeck and the rule of Homburg (1575) . Martina Galunder-Verlag, 1999
- Hans Weirich, Lothar Wirths: The Wayekarte from 1607. A map document to compare Siegburg . Martina Galunder-Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-89909-040-3
- K. Heckmann: The Siegburg comparison of the Duke of Jülich-Berg with the Counts of Wittgenstein about the division of the Homburg rule from 1604 and its prehistory , in: Zeitschrift des Bergisches Geschichtsverein, vol. 61 (1932/33), p. 55 -119