Vest Recklinghausen

The Vest Recklinghausen is the term for the judicial district of the medieval Montgoger Report Creation in Recklinghausen. The Vest stood next to the Archbishopric of Cologne and the Duchy of Westphalia constitutes a secular dominion of the Archbishops of Cologne during the early modern period it belonged as part of the Kurkölns Kurrheinischen Reich circle.

Location

The rivers Emscher and Lippe formed the natural border in the south to the county Mark and Reichsstift food and in the north to the Prince-Bishopric of Münster. To the east, between the Lippe and Emscher, secured a Landwehr the border with imperial city of Dortmund. To the west of Köllnische forest and the Kirchheller Heath formed the border of the Duchy of Cleves.

The Vest thus corresponds roughly to the present territory of the Recklinghausen district. However, parts of the present-day cities of Gelsenkirchen, Oberhausen and Bottrop belonged to the Vest. The city south of the Emscher located Castrop -Rauxel ( with the exception of the district Henrichenburg ) and the north of the lip lying parts of today's cities Dorsten and Haltern am See were not part of Vest.

History

Recklinghausen goes back to a Carolingian royal court. Since the second half of the 12th century after the fall of Henry the Lion and the destruction of the Duchy of Saxony, a rule by Cologne area began to develop. First mentioned in 1228 as Gogericht, can the term Vest from 1359 prove. The two starting points of Cologne rule in this area were Recklinghausen and Dorsten, who received in 1235 and 1251 city law.

In Vest is developed approaches to a self-consciousness. So it was in 1305 to a unification of the cities of Vests, which was renewed later. The area (actually in Westphalia, ) broke away from the middle of the 14th century more and more from the Duchy of Westphalia and was oriented towards increasingly becoming the Rhine archbishopric. Already in 1371 paid homage to the cities of the new Archbishop Frederick III. of Saarwerden with any of the Westphalian towns, but with those of the Rhineland. When Erblandesvereinigung from 1463, the stands were closing Vestische also to the Rhine. At the end of their Rhenish archbishopric there were in early modern times no doubt.

The Electorate of Cologne governor resided at Schloss Herten, the Oberkellnerei sat in Horne Castle in dates. From 1446 to 1476 the Vest deposit owned by the noble lords of Gemen, since that year to 1576, then was the Count of Holstein - Schaumburg. The Vest was the smallest of the three Cologne dominions. At the time of Dietrich II of Moers lived there about 14,500 people. In the Westphalian part of this figure was 59,000 and in the Rhenish part there were about 100,000 people.

The administration of the Vests shared by no later than 1600 in the Obervest in the east, which was still administered by Recklinghausen, and the Untervest in the West, which was managed by the city of Dorsten. For Obervest included the city and the parish of Recklinghausen and the parishes Ahsen, dates, Flaesheim, Hamm, Henrichenburg, Herten, Horne Castle, Oer, Suderwich, Waltrop and Westerholt. For Untervest included the city and the parish Dorsten and the parishes Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck, Horst, Kirchhellen, Marl, Osterfeld and Polsum.

As in the duchy of Westphalia there were in Vest Recklinghausen since the 16th century witch trials. In 1514, eleven women were convicted, which was accused of the evocation of a severe storm. First peak reached the processes 1590-1600. Later there were other processes. The number of victims is estimated at 94.

Archbishop of Cologne, Ferdinand of Bavaria decreed on 4 September 1614 that any non-Catholics of permanent residence is forbidden in the Vest. This was true until 1802, when the Vest came to the Duchy of Arenberg - Meppen. There were several reforms such as the introduction of the Civil Code or approaches to emancipation. In 1811 it came to the Grand Duchy of Berg. 1815 Vest was incorporated into the Prussian province of Westphalia in 1816 and went on in the district of Recklinghausen.

Affiliation of the Vest Recklinghausen

Today's use of the term

Today, the term is usually used synonymously with the Vest Recklinghausen district. The district of Recklinghausen called since 2006 in the subtitle of his signets also " Vestischer circle," and the job center under SGB II is called " Vestische work " beyond the name is used by numerous companies (Radio Vest, Vestisches Museum, Vestische trams Vestische arena (Stadium ), etc. ). The cities Waltrop, dates and Oer- Erkenschwick are called Ostvest.