Westhofen (desert)
Westhofen (Westheim) is a desert that is now part of the district of Hatten (Bas-Rhin) .
history
middle Ages
Westhofen was originally an independent village. It initially belonged to the Landgraviate of Alsace. In 1332 the Lords of Lichtenberg bought it together with a number of other villages and rights. It was an imperial fief that they assigned to the Amt Hatten (also: Hattgau ). The office of Hatten was formed in the 14th century and was an office of the Lichtenberg rule , from 1480 the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , from which it was transferred to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1736 .
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), one of Ludwig V's two heirs, married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417; † 1480) in 1458, who had a small secondary school from the County of Hanau had received in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage. After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Count Jakob, one of Anna's uncle, Philip I d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. This also included the Hatten office and with it Westhofen, which was still a village at the time.
Modern times
Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran .
As a result of France's reunion policy , around 1680 , the parts of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Alsace fell under French sovereignty , as did the Amt of Hatten and Westhofen.
The population of the place steadily decreased. In the 18th century there was only a single courtyard. This subsequently fell wildly. The location is therefore no longer listed in later lists of the extent of the Hatten office.
1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there. As a result of the French Revolution , the left bank of the Hanau-Lichtenberg county - and with it Westhofen - fell to France.
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).
- Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
- Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.