Messel is a municipality in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse near Frankfurt am Main in Germany .
3-601: The village is first mentioned, as Masilla , in the Lorsch codex . Messel was the property of the lords of Groschlag from ca. 1400 to 1799. After the extinction of the Groschlag male lineage, the village would have passed to the Archbishopric of Mainz but the population refused to accept this transition and paid homage to the daughters of the Groschlag family instead. The minister of the archbishopric, von Albini, consequently occupied
6-515: The Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch , Germany. The codex is handwritten in Carolingian minuscule , and contains illuminated initials – for example, a huge "D" is presented on the first page. The codex consists of 460 pages in large format which contain more than 3800 entries. It is important because it details the gifts given to the monastery and the possessions belonging to it, giving some of
9-498: The village with a force of 50 hussars . In 1806, the village fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The nearby Messel pit is an important site for Eocene fossils. This Hesse location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lorsch codex The Lorsch Codex (Chronicon Laureshamense, Lorscher Codex, Codex Laureshamensis) is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 AD in
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