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County Of Schaunberg
The County of Schaunberg (german: Grafschaft Schaunberg; also ''Schaumberg'') was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in present-day Upper Austria. It roughly corresponded to the modern '' Hausruckviertel''. Its seat was the , Hartkirchen. The Schaunbergers, who are descended from lords of Julbach (am Inn), were granted the lucrative imperial fief of Aschach an der Donau by Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossa in the middle of the 12th century. A few years later (documentary evidence suggests 1160) ''Heinricus de Scovenberch'' erected a castle not far from Aschach, which became the eponymous centre of the territory. Over the course of the 13th century the Schaunbergers built up a ''Vogtei'' (bailiwick), particularly by means of high jurisdiction, (over the Cistercian Wilhering Abbey) and church patronage, mainly between Kürnberg, Sauwald, the Danube and Hausruck. Documents from 1316 already refer to the Schaunbergers as ''Grafen'' (counts), and speak of the territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafschaft
A ''Grafschaft'' was originally the name given to the administrative area in the Holy Roman Empire over which a count, or ''Graf'', presided as judge. It is often, therefore, translated as 'county'. The term has survived as a placename in German-speaking countries, for example, in Germany and in Switzerland. According to the early Saxon legal document, the ''Sachsenspiegel'' which dates to around 1230, the ''Graf'' or count is a special judge (''Sonderrichter'') who, in the name of the king may preside at a juridical court, in certain cases, under the king's ban, i.e. king's authority. The type of 'ban' cases derived from the nature of the kingdom: From that followed the exclusive responsibility of the king – and thus the count – to deal with allegations against the nobility. As part of the court "under the king's ban" there was a bench of jurors made up of the nobility, the ''Schöffenbarfreien''. The area of the county was roughly that of modern rural German di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
