Vogtland knighthood
The Vogtländische knighthood was a corporate merger of the Principality of Brandenburg-Kulmbach landsässigen nobility.
history
In the Franconian monasteries , where the aristocratic cathedral chapters were able to exert significant influence on the policy of the prince-bishop elected from among their ranks, the Free Imperial Knighthood flourished. In contrast, in the Principality of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, the constant domestic interests of the Hohenzollerns , their independence from the nobility and the tighter political structure within the territory strongly opposed the nobility's urge for freedom and independence. So could within the ruled by the Hohenzollern country only nobility between pure Landsassiat and free imperial knights, the Corpus Voitlandicum or Vogtländische knighthood train. Membership in the Vogtland Knighthood was not based on descent from a particular family, but was only possible through the possession of an incorporated manor . These goods were distributed over the margravial provincial or administrative authorities Hof , Wunsiedel and Bayreuth and Kulmbach ; Vogtland manors were unknown in the lowlands .
In 1615, the Vogtland nobility submitted to the lordship of Margrave Christian von Brandenburg-Kulmbach by contract (Submissions-Agnitions-Rezess) , for which the lord sanctioned their corporate merger to form the Vogtland knighthood and gave it its own constitutional status. In addition, he granted the individual rulers special privileges such as freedom of religion and taxation as well as the retention of previous jurisdictions and immunities. The fact that this policy was crowned with success "with carrot and stick" can only be attributed to the special location of the Vogtland goods within the relatively closed domain of the margraves in the north and east of the margraviate, which in this region also bordered principalities with also local knighthood, be explained.
In 1662, Margrave Christian Ernst taxed the Voigtland knighthood for the first time on the basis of the Reichstag resolution of 1654, which expressly provides for a separate taxation right for the sovereign for the needs of the standing army, which up to now, like the imperial knighthood, only levies on the empire and the imperial circle (de jure voluntary) had paid (subsidium caritativum)
In 1663, parts of the former imperial nobility of the Bayreuth area from the knightly canton of Gebürg joined the corpus of the Vogtland nobility and thus weakened the canton of Gebürg again. This was preceded by other economic benefits granted by the margrave for his land nobility. The knighthood of the districts of Kulmbach and Neustadt / Aisch also joined the Voigtland knighthood in 1663 (Associated Voigtland Knighthood).
List of incorporated manors
| Manor | comment |
|---|---|
| Alladorf | A quarter of the village and reckoning tithes |
| Brandstein bei Berg | lock |
| Bug | Vorwerk |
| Bug | Manor, patronage right, neck court jointly with the owners of the Weissdorf manor, school, brewery and shepherd's house. |
| Cottenau | One good |
| Cussen | The dwelling and a castle in the suburbs, half a yard in Losau and nine ponds |
| Culmitz and Döbrastöcken | A good and the Vorwerk |
| Döhlau | Three manors, including today's Döhlau Castle |
| Dörnthal | Manor |
| Dressendorf | Two half yards, two Sölden, lower jurisdiction |
| Eppenreuth | Two yards |
| Epplas | Various pieces and goods |
| Erkersreuth | Seat, high hunt, higher jurisdiction, writing |
| Espich | Forest of 138 days |
| Erbsbühl | Various pieces and goods |
| Fahrbach | Manor with fonts |
| Fattigau | Lower hunting in the districts of the Fattigau administration |
| Feuln | The grain and the monetary interest from a farm |
| Förbau | Manor with a court of law and writing |
| Fohrenreuth | One good |
| Fülgendorf (?) | Manor with the low hunt on the manor grounds |
| Frankenberg | A farm and a sölde |
| Frog and snail green | Rittergut, higher jurisdiction |
| Fölschnitz | Various pieces and goods |
| Feilitz fiefdom | Fields and meadows in Kemlas , which farmers in Kemlas, Blankenberg and Schnarchenreuth have as a fief. |
| Götteldorf ( Gottersdorf ?) | Manor, scripture |
| Göppmannsbühl | Manor |
| Goldkronach | Manor |
| Godman's Green | Manor with community rule, Niederer Jagd and lower jurisdiction |
| Grafenreuth | Manor of Gravenreuth |
| Gumpertsreuth | Manor with fonts |
| Guttenthau | The so-called Rosenhof |
| Haidhof and Kotzmannsreuth | Manor |
| Hartmannsreuth Oberhartmannsreuth | One and a half farms, some fields and forests, the so-called Plosenberg and an Erbschenke in Trogen |
| Haselbrunn (?) | Two yards |
| Hartungs | Manor |
| Hesselbach (?) | Manor with high hunting, game pits and jurisdiction |
| Hofeck | Manor with the Vorwerk Schartenmauer |
| Isaar | Vorwerk, local authority to Joditz, Hohe Jagd im Leuchtholz, Hirschstein and Kulm |
| Issigau | Manor with high hunt, high jurisdiction and scripture. |
| Joditz | One yard, one house |
| Kothigenbibersbach | One third of tithing |
| Körber (?) | Half a yard, two houses, jurisdiction |
| Konradsreuth | Manor, the Cöstlerischer Hof, jurisdiction |
| Korbersdorf | One court, high hunt |
| Krötenbruck | Vorwerk |
| Toad village (?) | Vorwerk |
| Küschwitz | Two yards |
| Lanzendorf | Manor |
| Laineck | Castle, farms and goods on the Rodersberg, the Vorwerk zu Ützdorf, lower jurisdiction |
| Lipperts | Manor |
| Lippertsgrün | Rittergut and Vorwerk |
| Losau | Three yards |
| Lorenzreuth | The whole tenth |
| Munchenreuth | Manor with high jurisdiction |
| Meyernberg | Manor |
| Mosque village | The Stelzengut |
| Naila | A hostel, a small estate and two small houses in Froschgrün, a place of wood in Geiersbach, half a yard in Klingelsporn, the upper pond there and a piece of wood on Griesbacher Weg |
| Nentschau | Manor with higher jurisdiction |
| Neudrossenfeld | Manor |
| Neuenhaus | lock |
| Neuhaus on the Eger | Village |
| Oberhöchstädt | Manor |
| Oberkotzau | Manor with writings, high court, Niederer Jagd and patronage rights over the churches in Oberkotzau and Kautendorf, Oberkotzau Castle |
| Oberredwitz | Manor with patronage rights and church law, high court and scripture |
| Oberröslau | Manor with fonts |
| Obernschwarzach | The whole tithe, one pond |
| Oberwaiz | Manor |
| Ploessen | Pieces in Ploessen, Poppenreuth and Strass; the farms and estates located in the Münchberg office. |
| Pollersdorf | Two half yards and one Sölde, jurisdiction under lower jurisdiction |
| Prex | Vorwerk |
| Rauschenberg (?) | Manor |
| Regnitzlosau , behind the church | Manor with fonts |
| Regnitzlosau , Hohenberg | Manor with written records and higher jurisdiction |
| Regnitzlosau , Niedernberg | Manor |
| Reitzenstein | Castle, high jurisdiction, high hunting and writing as well as the right of patronage over the parish of Issigau. |
| Latch block | Castle with game ban and church fiefdom as well as the tithe to Riegelstein |
| Roethenbach | Manor with writing and goods to Bergnersreuth , Seussen, Braunersgrün and Schirnding |
| Rothenbürg | Vorwerk |
| Saxony (?) | Waldsachsen and Dettendorf manor, lower jurisdiction and lower hunting |
| Sandreuth (?) | Some subjects, interest and property people, including the associated meadows, forests and fishing waters at Sandreuth |
| Nicks | Manor with higher jurisdiction |
| Schlegel | Manor |
| Schönwald | Manor with higher jurisdiction |
| Schwarzenbach am Wald | A house |
| Schwarzenbach on the Saale | Manor with writing, higher court and community rule as well as patronage rights over the church in Schwarzenbach |
| Schwarzenstein | Manor |
| Seidenhof | Manor |
| Seubottenreuth ( Seybothenreuth ) | Manor |
| Sussen | Perpendicular |
| Tauperlitz | Manor with fonts |
| Tiefenthal | Manor |
| Trogen | Vorwerk, an estate called "Zech". |
| Unterhöchstädt | Manor with writing, a courtyard and three ponds at Rügersgrün |
| Voita (?) | A Gülthof, a Söldengut, tithe |
| Weinzlitz | Rittergut and Vorwerk |
| Weissdorf | Manor with jurisdiction and patronage rights, hunting rights to village and field, brewery and shepherd's house. |
| Wilhelmsdorf (?) | Manor with lower jurisdiction and lower hunting, fishing rights in the Aurach within the manor district, patronage right |
| Windischenhaig | A Gülthof |
| Desert stone | Manor |
| Zedtwitz | Various estates and farms in Zedwitz and Schollenreuth, jurisdiction over the higher courts and writing |
| Zeulenreuth | Castle and half an estate |
literature
- Johann Gottfried Biedermann : sex register of laudable knighthood in Voigt country ... . Kulmbach 1752 Google Books
- Rudolf Endres : The Voigtland Knighthood , in: Rudolf Endres (ed.): Adel in the early modern era - A regional comparison , Bayreuth Historical Colloquia, Vol. 3, Cologne; Vienna 1991, pp. 55–72 ISBN 3-412-03490- 8th
- Johann Wilhelm Holle : The disputes of the Margraves of Bayreuth with the knighthood about the imperial immediacy . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Volume 8, 2nd issue. Bayreuth 1861. pp. 55-61.
- Hans Georg May: The Vogtland Knighthood - A Constitutional History Study , Inaugural Dissertation of the Law Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, 1951
- Richard Winkler: Margrave versus Imperial Knighthood. Noble gentlemen in the Bayreuth area . In: Local supplement to the Upper Franconian School Gazette . No. 267. Bayreuth 2000. pp. 17ff.
Web links
- The Vogtland Knighthood in the Bayreuth Markgraftum (around 1790) . (Design: Stefan Schnupp; information from: Hanns Hubert Hofmann, Middle and Upper Franconia at the end of the Old Empire 1792, Munich 1954; Spindler / Diepolder, Bayerischer Geschichtsatlas, 25)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Klaus Rupprecht: Imperial Knighthood, Canton Mountains in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns
- ↑ a b Reinhard Heydenreuter , Birgit Strobl (ed.) Bavarian State History Munich September 2009, reprint 2011, p. 145