Isenburg-Büdingen

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Family coat of arms of the counts and princes of Isenburg (Ysenburg)

The county of Isenburg-Büdingen , also: Y senburg-Büdingen , in the south-eastern Wetterau in the north-western Main-Kinzig district and the southeastern Wetterau district , was the domain of the counts of the same name, which arose in 1628 as a result of the division of Isenburg County . The county only existed until 1687, before it was further divided into four special lines (subsidiary lines) ( Ysenburg-Büdingen-Büdingen , Ysenburg-Büdingen-Marienborn , Ysenburg-Büdingen-Meerholz and Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach ).

The partitions of 1668 and 1684

Count Wolfgang Ernst I of Isenburg-Büdingen in Birstein , Burgrave of Gelnhausen (* 1560, † 1633), laid down the government several years before his death and divided the county among his five sons. Since only two of the sons had male offspring, the other parts of the country later reverted to them. As a result, there were a number of inheritance conflicts, which in 1668 led to the final division of the county into the counties of Isenburg-Büdingen and Isenburg-Offenbach . Maria Charlotte (1631–1693), the widow of Count Johann Ernst I of Isenburg-Büdingen , reached an agreement in 1684 in a recess with Johann Ludwig (1622–1685), the other surviving grandson of Wolfgang Ernst I of Isenburg and Büdingen in Birstein on the division.

The division of the country in 1687

On July 23, 1687, in another recess, the country was divided among the four sons of Maria Charlotte. The eldest son, Count Johann Casimir von Isenburg-Büdingen (1660–1693) received the castle , town and court of Büdingen and the surrounding villages, Ferdinand Maximilian, the second oldest son received the castle and town of Wächtersbach , Karl August received Marienborn , in today's Büdingen district of Eckartshausen with the surrounding villages and Georg Albrecht received Meerholz and the surrounding villages (see also the legend of the four spruces ). Therefore, in addition to the (old) main line Isenburg-Birstein, there were the (new) special lines Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen , Isenburg and Büdingen in Meerholz and Isenburg and Büdingen in Wächtersbach .

Loss of independence in the new state of the Rhine Confederation

Through the Rheinbund act 1806 Carl Prince of Isenburg-Birstein (* 1766; † 1820, he ruled from 1803 to 1820 mostly with residence in Offenbach am Main ) was sovereign prince over all Isenburg lands (Carl's father, the Count of Isenburg-Birstein was 1744 was raised to the rank of prince by the German king and emperor; but it was not until 1803 ( Reichsdeputationshauptschluss ) that his son received a virile vote in the Imperial Council of Prince ). The special lines were mediatized , the areas of the counties lost their previous quasi-independence and were now called districts. Under Prince Carl, the former imperial territory became a modern state largely based on the Napoleonic model.

Notable lord under the Elector and Grand Duke from 1816

By resolution of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the state came to the Empire of Austria and in 1816, after a partition treaty, to the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Offenbach, Neu-Isenburg, Sprendlingen, Dreieich and the area of ​​the special line Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen) and the Electorate of Hesse ( the Isenburg-Birstein area north of the Main and the areas of the special lines Ysenburg and Büdingen in Meerholz and Ysenburg and Büdingen in Wächtersbach were divided). In the subsequent Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Electorate of Hesse, which subsequently belonged to the German Confederation , both the former main line in Birstein and the special lines were class lords in both states, including Ysenburg-Büdingen. The counts wrote their "Isenburg" in the following period - as they do today - with "Y".

Counts and Princes of Ysenburg and Büdingen (1633–1918)

Isenburg-Birstein coat of arms in Fulda

Head of Ysenburg-Büdingen (since 1918)

Wolfgang-Ernst zu Ysenburg and Büdingen, 2009
  • 1918–1920 Prince Wolfgang of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen (* 1877; † 1920)
  • 1920 Alfred Fürst zu Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen (* 1841; † 1922), resigned July 30, 1920
  • 1920–1941 Carl Gustav Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen (* 1875; † 1941), adopted Otto Friedrich von Ysenburg and Büdingen in Wächtersbach in 1936
  • 1941–1990 Otto Friedrich Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen (* 1904; † 1990)
  • since 1990 Wolfgang-Ernst Fürst zu Ysenburg and Büdingen (* 1936)

More name bearers

Castles

literature

  • Gustav Simon : The History of the Imperial House of Ysenburg and Büdingen, Volume 1, The History of the Ysenburg-Büdingen'schen Land , Brönner, Frankfurt, 1865 ( Google Books )
  • Gustav Simon: The history of the imperial house Ysenburg and Büdingen, second volume: The Ysenburg and Büdingen'sche house history , Brönner, Frankfurt, 1865 ( Google Books )
  • Gustav Simon: The history of the imperial house of Ysenburg and Büdingen, third volume: The Ysenburg and Büdingen'sche Urkundenbuch , Brönner, Frankfurt, 1865 ( Google Books )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article 24, Paragraph 11 of the Rhine Federation Act
  2. ↑ CONVENTION territorial entre le Grand Duc de Hesse et Elector de Hesse . - Signèe à Francfort sur Mein, le 29 Juin, 1816. British and Foreign State Papers 1815-1816, Volume 3, Compiled by the Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office, London (James Ridgway and Sons, Piccadilly) 1838, p 812-819; also printed in Grindaha, issue 26, Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V., Gründau 2016 ISSN  2194-8631 pp. 4–12 with a comment by Norbert Breunig