Brick House (Gelnhausen)
Ziegelhaus was a street village south of the city of Gelnhausen in Hesse , grew into the city in the 19th century and is no longer recognizable as an independent settlement core today.
location
Ziegelhaus was half a kilometer south of the old town of Gelnhausen at an altitude of 135 m above sea level , was separated from the city by the Kinzig and connected to it by a bridge. It was named after a local brick factory . The place was crossed by the important connecting road between the two important trade routes Hohe Straße and Birkenhainer Straße , which made it very important, also as a source of income. Today the district is in the urban area of Gelnhausen. The location of the street village roughly corresponded to today's street Im Ziegelhaus .
history
Brick house is mentioned as Czygelhus around 1370 . It was assigned to the Altenhaßlau court, from which mainly the Altenhaßlau office of the Hanau rulership , later the Hanau county and finally the Hanau-Münzenberg county developed.
Since the Middle Ages, the affiliation of the village has been a bone of contention between the County of Hanau and the imperial city of Gelnhausen. The dispute can be traced back to two contradicting leanings from the 14th century: In 1346 Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian awarded the “new building” beyond the Gelnhausen “Hohen Brücke”, ie the area of Ziegelhütte, to the city of Gelnhausen. In 1362 Ulrich III bought von Hanau the court Altenhaßlau, in 1377 at the latest it was enfeoffed.
Ultimately, the question was, to whom the place - and thus the income there from taxes , escort rights and other things, such as the fees for the funeral of the deceased - belonged: Hanau or Gelnhausen.
The situation was further complicated by the fact that the empire pledged the city of Gelnhausen and the Count of Hanau became a pawnbroker of Gelnhausen since 1435 - together with the Electoral Palatinate .
This complex legal situation and the attempt by the County of Hanau-Munzenberg to also take control of the city of Gelnhausen and its rights in the process of territorialization led to numerous legal proceedings , including before the Imperial Court of Justice until the 18th century.
Residents
- 1611: 28 taxpayers
- 1895: 28 houses with 226 residents
literature
- Jürgen Ackermann: Gelnhausen. The pledged imperial city. Civil liberty and ruling power. (Studies and materials on constitutional and regional history, Volume 22), Marburg 2006. ISBN 3-921254-87-6
- Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Marburg 1926., p. 535.
Web link
- Brick house, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 54 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 26 ″ E