Erharting contracts

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The two Erharting treaties of 1254 and 1275 resolved the conflicts between the Bavarian dukes and the Archdiocese of Salzburg over territorial and rule claims in the area of Wald an der Alz and the county of Lebenau . After years of negotiations, a compromise on sovereign rights and economic interests was reached between Dukes Heinrich and Ludwig on the one hand and Philipp von Spanheim and the Archdiocese of Salzburg on the other, which continued to have an effect until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.

Contract partner

In 1254, the then Elect of Salzburg Archbishopric, Philipp von Spanheim, signed the first contract of Erharting with the Bavarian dukes Heinrich and Ludwig. In 1257 Philipp was deposed from the Salzburg cathedral chapter and after some back and forth had to give up Salzburg for good in 1267. In 1269 he was elected Patriarch of Aquileia , but could not assert himself here either. In order to secure at least his count's rights in the Bavarian-Salzburg area, he concluded the second contract of Erharting with the Bavarian dukes in 1275.

Result

The rulership rights of both principalities now ran after the two contracts of Erharting regardless of feudal relationships along the Alz; the areas to the east were ceded to the Salzburg Archbishopric, the areas to the west were given to the Duchy of Bavaria. The adjoining county Lebenau was after the deceased without heirs last Count of Lebenau Bernhard († 17 April 1229) is already out of Duke Ludwig I the Archbishop Eberhard II. Salzburg has been granted. The Salzburg elect Philipp von Spanheim secured the county rights in 1254 in the county of Lebenau and in Chiemgau . The county of Lebenau made up the area of ​​the later Tittmoning nursing court . The Salzburg archbishops did not succeed in the following years , the area of ​​this Comitia in Tittmaning to the area east of the Salzach and north of the Moosach, z. B. in the direction of the Weilhartsforst , because the court owners, the gentlemen von Franking and von Rohr , sold their rights there to the Bavarian duke. The Wildshut court , seat of the district court in Weilhart, came to the Bavarian duke and remained Bavarian until the Peace of Teschen in 1779. Likewise, Philipp von Spanheim had to forego the fiefdoms around the Chiemsee in the first Erharting contract.

The Counts of Plain bordered the County of Lebenau in the south . In 1249, Luitpod, the main line of the Counts of Plain, died out and ownership rights had to be reorganized. The last Plainer, the brothers Otto and Konrad, had pledged the fiefs outside the mountains to Bavaria. After their death (1260, both fell in the battle against the Hungarians near Staatz an der Laa), this pledged property, which mainly comprised the Plain and Raschenberg courts, fell back to the archbishopric. In 1275, in the second treaty of Erharting, the Duke finally renounced the goods of the Counts of Plain, as these were extra limites nostros of his country. The court of Wald (the old Zeidlergau) was awarded to the Wittelsbachers after the second contract signed by Erharting in 1275 .

For the Archdiocese of Salzburg - and through the additional acquisition of the two counties in Oberpinzgau and Unterpinzgau in 1228 by Archbishop Eberhard II and the County of Lungau - the prerequisite for the state legal separation from the Duchy of Bavaria and recognition as an independent territory created. In 1325 a governor was named for the first time in Salzburg , in 1327 the provincial estates met and in 1328 the first state order was issued.

literature

  • Heinz Dopsch : History of Salzburg. Urban and countryside. Volume I., Part I. Universitätsverlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg, pp. 341–346. ISBN 3-7025-0121-5 .
  • Andreas Kraus: History of Bavaria. From the beginning to the present (4th, updated edition). CH Beck, Munich, 2013. ISBN 3-406-51540-1 .
  • Helga Reindel-Schedl: The gentlemen von Rohr and their court beyond the Salzach, beyond the “comitie in Tittmaning”. Journal for Bavarian State History , 1980, 43, pp. 329–353.
  • Friederike Zaisberger : History of Salzburg . Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich, 1998, p. 37. ISBN 3-486-56351-3 .