Zoppenbroich
Zoppenbroich is a former subordinate of Kurköln in the district of Liedberg , which existed from 1405 to 1744. Under the rule included on the present territory of the city of Mönchengladbach lying Honnschaften workers, Biesel, Eiger and Tackhütte. In 1670 the territory had a size of 139 hectares , on which there were 22 houses and farms. A gallows stood in the Biesel monastery as a place of execution and symbol of power. The Zoppenbroich house, built around 1700 on the ruins of a previous building that burned down in 1642, was the seat of the feudal bearers . It lies between Giesenkirchen and Rheydt an der Niers .
The Niers formed the western border of the territory to the subordinate Rheydt of the Duchy of Jülich , which often led to border disputes as the river constantly changed its bed after floods.
history
Zoppenbroich was originally a knight's fiefdom belonging to the Dingstuhl Liedberg . During a phase of territorial disputes between Kurköln and the counts (from 1328 dukes) of Jülich, which lasted from 1304 to 1405, the respective feudal bearers succeeded in expanding their power to a subordinate rule largely independent of Kurköln.
As a feudal bearer are documented
- Rabodo (1334)
- Bernhard (1371 and 1395)
- Rembodo of Slychem (1403)
- Albert von Honselaer (1405)
From 1566 to 1692 the Barons von Quadt were feudal bearers of the subordinate rule, after which there were multiple changes of ownership. In 1723 Ambrosius Franz von Virmont received the territory from the inheritance of his first wife and in the following year he was enfeoffed with it. After Virmont's death in 1744, who left no heirs, his widow Maria Elisabeth fought with the Archbishop of Cologne over the property until 1763 . Only after the Archbishop had paid 110,000 Reichstaler to the widow in a settlement did the territory fall back to Kurköln and was subsequently administered by the Electoral Cologne Bailiwick of Odenkirchen .
The name Zoppenbroich only exists today as a field name for the Niers floodplains between Giesenkirchen and Rheydt, and a Zoppenbroicher Straße in Cologne and Mönchengladbach also reminds of the former subordination. The Zoppenbroich house is now the seat of the stud of the same name .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jakob Bremer: The Electoral Cologne Office Liedberg . Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1930, p. 25-26 .
literature
- Walter Daugsch: Giesenkirchen in the early modern times . In: Loca Desiderata. Mönchengladbach city history . tape 2 , 1999, p. 283-335 .