Stockheim court

The Stockheim court was a mediaeval rule based in Stockheim .

A few kilometers north of today's Usingen was the former Stockheim settlement. This was the ancestral seat of the Stockheim family .

The Stockheim court consisted of the upper court and the lower court.

The Stockheim Higher Court consisted of the parishes of Rod am Berg , Hundstall , Brombach and Dorfweil .

The Lower Court Stockheim comprised Westerfeld and Hausen (which ecclesiastically belonged to Usingen), Arnsbach ( belonging to the parish of Reifenberg ), the parish of Merzhausen and the parish of Niederlauken (to which Oberlauken belonged after it was separated from the parish of Alt-Weilnau).

Half in the Neuweilnau court and half in the Stockheim court belonged to the places Gemünden and Laubach (the Stockheim part belonging to the parish of Merzhausen).

Since 1456 Reifenberg was involved in the lower court. Half of the Stockheim court was acquired by Count Albrecht von Nassau-Weilburg in 1579 . Count Walrad von Nassau-Usingen acquired the other half in 1669 . The Stockheim court had thus become part of Nassau-Usingen . In the Principality of Nassau-Usingen, the Stockheim court became part of the Usingen office .

literature

• Jost Kloft: Territorial history of the Usingen district (= writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies. Item 32). Elwert, Marburg 1971, ISBN 3-7708-0417-1 (also: Marburg, Univ., Diss. 1957).
• Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Nassau territories according to the acquis immediately before the French Revolution until 1866. In: Annals of the association for Nassau antiquity and historical research. Vol. 10 , 1870, ZDB -ID 504639-7 pp. 253-360, here 260.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 642, 645-646 .