Wegebach

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Wegebach is a "villa" mentioned for the first time in 1144, but today it is a desolate place about 1 km north of Ziegenhain in Hesse, after which between 1144 and 1220 a branch of the Counts von Reichenbach and von Ziegenhain at times also called Counts von Wegebach or Counts von Ziegenhain-Wegebach called.

In the first half of the 12th century the Reichenbachers, in their position as bailiffs of the Fulda Abbey , had acquired considerable bailiwick and allodial possessions in the Wegebach and Ziegenhain area . Although its type and scope are uncertain, it was significant enough to persuade Count Gozmar II von Reichenbach († 1141) to move to Wegebach. His son Gottfried (* around 1100; † after 1158) initially also resided in Wegebach, but built a new castle in the nearby Ziegenhain in 1144. After that he and his successors called themselves Counts of Ziegenhain , occasionally until 1220 also Counts of Wegebach or Counts of Ziegenhain and Wegebach.

Even in 1345 consisted of Bach ways a local court ( Zent Court ), which ziegenhainisches half fief of the lords of Lowenstein -Schweinsberg was. After the county of Ziegenhain had fallen to the Landgraviate of Hesse with the death of the last Count, Johann II , Wegebach passed into the ownership of this family as a landgrave's fief at least from 1461. New loans to the family are recorded in 1490, 1503, 1515, 1539 and 1569.

During the Thirty Years' War the place was razed to the ground by the troops of General Tilly when they looted and pillaged several places near Ziegenhain on the way from Fritzlar to Fulda in October 1631 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Wegebach (desert), Schwalm-Eder-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 17, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Matthaeus Lungwitz: Dreyfachen Swedish Laurel Krantzes and Triumphirender Victory Crown Third Part , Johan Grossen, Leipzig, 1633 (p. 455)
  3. ^ Renatus Karl von Senckenberg, Franz Dominikus Häberli: Attempt a history of the German Empire in the seventeenth century. Fifth volume: 1629 - 1634 , Johann Jacob Gebauer, Halle, 1795, p. 406

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Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 19.4 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 45.6 ″  E