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
Manor may refer to:
Land ownership
*Manorialism or "manor system", the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of medieval Europe, notably England
*Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism
*Man ...
of Rheda.
The Lordship was created from the ''Freigericht'' (free court or free jurisdiction) of Rheda and the ''
Vögterei
During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German: ; French: ) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as ...
'' (stewardship) over the abbeys of
Liesborn
Liesborn Abbey (german: Kloster Liesborn) was a Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery (originally for nuns or women's collegiate foundation) in Liesborn, in what was originally the Dreingau, now a part of Wadersloh in the district of Warend ...
and
Freckenhorst
Warendorf () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the northern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Steinfurt, Osnabrück (district), Gütersloh, Soest, district-free city Hamm, Coesfeld and the district-free city Münster.
...
. On the death of the first Lord,
Widukind of Rheda, in the
Third Crusade, the lordship was inherited by
Bernhard II, Lord of Lippe
Bernard II (; 30 April 1224) was Lord of Lippe from 1167 until 1196. He founded the towns of Lippstadt and Lemgo.
Marriage and children
In 1167, Bernard married Heilwig (1150–1196), likely the daughter of Otto, Count of Are-Hochstaden. They h ...
. Bernhard's successor,
Hermann II, moved the seat of his lordship to Rheda Castle.
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
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded fro ...
, unlike the rest of the Lippian inheritance, which passed to
Simon III, brother of Bernhard V;
[ Simon III van Lippe on the Dutch Wikipedia] 130 years later, Tecklenburg reimbursed Lippe for this annexation with a payment of 7200
Rhenish gulden (german:
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
The Province of Westphalia () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 to 1946. In turn, Prussia was the largest component state of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, of the Weimar Republic and from 1918 ...
, where it remained beyond the
German Revolution
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
and the abolition of the German monarchies in the
aftermath of World War I
The aftermath of World War I saw drastic political, cultural, economic, and social change across Eurasia, Africa, and even in areas outside those that were directly involved. Four empires collapsed due to the war, old countries were abolished, ne ...
until the reorganisation of Germany under the
Allied Occupation powers, when it became a part of the newly created
state of
North Rhine-Westphalia.
References
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1170 establishments
1190 disestablishments
Populated places established in the 12th century
Populated places disestablished in the 12th century
Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia