Spachbach
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| local community | Oberdorf-Spachbach | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 45' E | |
| Post Code | 67360 | |
Spachbach is a district of the French commune of Oberdorf-Spachbach in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
history
middle Ages
Spachbach belonged to the lordship of Lichtenberg , where it was assigned to the Wörth office, which was created in the 13th century. When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Wörth office - and thus also Spachbach - came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch when it was divided.
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter as heir. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg. Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran .
With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Wörth and Spachbach offices came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it Spachbach - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hessen-Darmstadt . With the upheaval begun by the French Revolution , the Amt Wörth became part of France and dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms.
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).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eyer, p. 238.