Rheda, Germany

Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Herrschaft Rheda"
conventional_long_name = Lordship of Rheda
common_name = Rheda|
continent = Europe
region = Rhine basin
country = Germany
era = Middle Ages
status = Vassal
empire = Holy Roman Empire
government_type = Principality|
year_start = 1170
year_end = 1190|
event_pre = Founded
date_pre = before the 1080s
event_start = Gained "Reichsfreiheit"
date_start = 1170
event1 = Inherited by Lippe
date_event1 = 1190
event2 = Inherited by Tecklenburg
date_event2 = 1364
event3 = Inherited by Bentheim-
Tecklenburg
date_event3 =
1605
event4 = Annexed by Berg
date_event4 = 1808
event_end = Awarded to Prussia,
within Westphalia
date_end =
1818
event_post = Joined NRW
date_post = October 25, 1946|
p1 = Duchy of Saxony
image_p1 =
s1 = Lordship of Lippe
image_s1 = |


image_map_caption = Rheda Castle|
capital = Rheda|
footnotes =

Rheda is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, a part of the municipality of Rheda-Wiedenbrück in the "Kreis" of Gütersloh.

History

Rheda was first mentioned in documents from the year 1085, at the latest 1088. Rheda Castle was, from 1170 until 1807 or 1815, the manor house of the Manor of Rheda.

The Lordship was created from the "Freigericht" (free court or free jurisdiction) of Rheda and the "Vögterei" (stewardship) over the abbeys of Liesborn and Freckenhorst. On the death of the first Lord, Widukind of Rheda, in the Third Crusade, the lordship was inherited by Bernhard II, Lord of Lippe. Bernhard's successor, Hermann II, moved the seat of his lordship to Rheda Castle.de icon [http://www.hoeckmann.de/geschichte/rheda.htm History and maps of the Lordship of Rheda] ]

On the death of Bernhard V without an heir in 1364, the Lordship of Rheda was seized by Bernhard's son-in-law, Otto V, Count of Tecklenburg, unlike the rest of the Lippian inheritance, which passed to Simon III, brother of Bernhard Vnl icon Simon III van Lippe on the Dutch Wikipedia] ; 130 years later, Tecklenburg reimbursed Lippe for this annexation with a payment of 7200 Rhenish gulden ( _de. Rheinischer Münzverein).

From the Tecklenburger annexation, the lordship followed the path of that county. In the course of the Napoleonic Wars, the territory was annexed to the Napoleonic satellite Grand Duchy of Berg and was awarded to the Kingdom of Prussia by the Congress of Vienna, becoming part of the Prussian province of Westphalia, where it remained beyond the German Revolution and the abolition of the German monarchies in the aftermath of World War I until the reorganisation of Germany under the Allied Occupation powers, when it became a part of the newly-created state of North Rhine-Westphalia.List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (R)]

References

External links

* [http://www.hoeckmann.de/geschichte/rheda.htm History and maps of the Lordship of Rheda]