Le Ban de la Roche ( German : Steintal ) is the name of an ancient seigneurie , later a county . It is situated in Alsace , France , Département du Bas-Rhin . This small region is referred by its old Ancien régime name because of its strong identity and because it is relatively different from its neighbors, including the fact that it was a Lutheran community surrounded by Catholic villages. There was an Amish farm in the village of Neuviller.
7-399: The Seigneurie included eight villages: Rothau (Seigneurie-seat), Wildersbach , Neuviller-la-Roche (along with hamlets La Haute Goutte and Riangoutte), Waldersbach , Bellefosse , Belmont , Fouday (with the hamlet Trouchy) and Solbach . One of the most important lords of Ban de la Roche was Georges-Jean de Veldenz ( German : Georg Hans von Veldenz ) (1543–1592), son-in-law of
14-471: Is the lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple . Nulle terre sans seigneur ("No land without a lord") was a feudal legal maxim ; where no other lord can be discovered, the Crown is lord as lord paramount . The principal incidents of a seignory were a feudal oath of homage and fealty ; a "quit" or "chief" rent ; a "relief" of one year's quit rent, and
21-414: The lordships of manors . They are regarded as incorporeal hereditaments , and are either appendant or in gross. A seignory appendant passes with the grant of the manor; a seignory in gross—that is, a seignory which has been severed from the demesne lands of the manor to which it was originally appendant—must be specially conveyed by deed of grant. Freehold land may be enfranchised by a conveyance of
28-694: The United States to the state of Pennsylvania aboard ship Princess Augusta. The 19th century emigrants went to Ohio and Illinois . It was a land of Lutheran pietism and religious intolerance . Le Ban de la Roche is twinned with Woolstock, Iowa , where many Bandelarochians emigrated. Seigneurie In English law , seignory or seigniory , spelled signiory in Early Modern English ( / ˈ s eɪ nj ə r i / ; French : seigneur , lit. 'lord'; Latin : senior , lit. 'elder'),
35-575: The king of Sweden , and founder of the city of Phalsbourg . Count de Veldenz bought Le Ban de la Roche for its mining possibilities. There were many witchcraft trials held in Le Ban de la Roche in the 1620s. Ban de la Roche was on the Amish centre. There was an Amish farm ("cense" in the local way of speaking) called Sommerhof in La Haute Goutte. Beginning in 1736, many emigrants traveled to
42-428: The right of escheat . In return for these privileges, the lord was liable to forfeit his rights if he neglected to protect and defend the tenant or did anything injurious to the feudal relation. Every seignory now existing must have been created before the statute Quia Emptores (1290), which forbade the future creation of estates in fee-simple by subinfeudation . The only seignories of any importance at present are
49-504: The seignory to the freehold tenant, but it does not extinguish the tenant's right of common ( Baring v. Abingdon , 1892, 2 Ch. 374). By s. 3 (ii.) of the Settled Land Act 1882, the tenant for life of a manor is empowered to sell the seignory of any freehold land within the manor, and by s. 21 (v.) the purchase of the seignory of any part of settled land being freehold land, is an authorized application of capital money arising under
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