Vest Recklinghausen

Vest Recklinghausen was an ecclesiastical territory in the

Bishopric of Münster in the north. In the east, a fortification secured the border with Dortmund and in the west it was bordered by the Duchy of Cleves

.

Today Vest Recklinghausen is divided into the

radio station, a Shopping mall, a Bank and the municipal public transport

company Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH.

History

Lordship of Vest Recklinghausen

Vest Recklinghausen was first mentioned in 1228 as a fiefdom of the Archbishopric of Cologne and thus it belonged to the Electoral Rhenish Circle. The administrator lived in castle Westerholt, located in Herten. From 1446 to 1576 it was used as collateral, first pawned to the lords of Gemen (now part of the city Borken) and after 1492 to the Lords of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg, who pawned the territory back to the Archbishops of Cologne in 1576.^[1]

During the

Haultpenne, in the city of Werl.^[3]

After the turmoil of the Cologne Wars, the administration of Vest Recklinghausen was divided in (circa 1600) in two districts: Recklinghausen continued to administer the eastern section, but

Kirchhellen, Marl, Osterfeld and Polsum.^[4]

On 4 September 1614, Ferdinand of Bavaria, the successor to his uncle, Ernst of Bavaria, as the Elector of Cologne, forbade non-Catholics from staying in Vest Recklinghausen.

During the secularization of the ecclesiastical states in 1802–03, also known as the

Dukes of Arenberg. In 1811 it was added to the Grand Duchy of Berg and in 1815 became part of the Prussian province of Westphalia

.

References

Citations

^ History of the Vest Recklinghausen
^ (in German) J. H. Hennes, Der Kampf um das Erzstift Koln, Cologne, 1878, pp. 4–25.
^ Benians, pp. 713; Charles Maurice Davies, The History of Holland and the Dutch Republic, 1851, p. 233; J. Lin Cologne War The Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
^ History of the Vest Recklinghausen

Sources

Benians, Ernest Alfred; John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Baron; Adolphus William Ward, Sir; G W Prothero; Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Sir; (1905). The Cambridge Modern History. New York: MacMillan. p. 708.
Davies, Charles Maurice, The History of Holland and the Dutch Republic, 1851
Goetz, Walter, "Gebhard II and the Counter Reformation in the Lower Rhinelands," Schaff Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Johann Jakob Herzog (ed.), v. 4, New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1909, pp. 439–441. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
(in German) Hennes, Johann Heinrich (1878). Der Kampf um das Erzstift Köln zur Zeit der Kurfürsten. Köln: DuMont-Schauberg.
Lin, J. Cologne War The Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.

External links

History of the Vest Recklinghausen and a historical card from 1789 (in German)
Information to the location of the district of Recklinghausen Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German)

[1] History of the Vest Recklinghausen

[2] (in German) J. H. Hennes, Der Kampf um das Erzstift Koln, Cologne, 1878, pp. 4–25.

[3] Benians, pp. 713; Charles Maurice Davies, The History of Holland and the Dutch Republic, 1851, p. 233; J. Lin Cologne War The Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.

[4] History of the Vest Recklinghausen

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