Öttershausen

Öttershausen City of Volkach Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 16 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	264 m
Residents :	15  (1987)
Postal code :	97332
Area code :	09381
Location of Öttershausen (bold) within the Volkach municipality
The remains of the estate in Öttershausen

Öttershausen is a hamlet on the outskirts of the Volkach district of Gaibach in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

Öttershausen is in the northwest of the Volkach district of Gaibach, with which it also shares the district. The remains of the estate are about 900 meters away from the Gaibach constitutional column in the palace gardens. Originally a direct path led to the park, today the estate is connected to Gaibach in the south-east and Stammheim in the west by the KT 35 district road.

In terms of natural space , the district of Gaibach forms its own sub-unit, the so-called Gaibacher Loess Plateau , in which Öttershausen is also located. It is part of the Iphofen-Gerolzhofener Steigerwaldvorland within the Mainfränkische Platten .

history

The manor is the center of the small settlement. It was given to Heidenfeld Monastery as early as 1069, at that time as "Otericheshusin", by the future abbess of Banz , Alberada . Various gentlemen followed who owned the estate during the Middle Ages. The courtyard was probably assigned to a fortified manor in the south of today's complex, which was abandoned in the 16th century.

In 1588, Valentin Echter von Mespelbrunn acquired the town of von den Rau von Holzhausen, he died there in 1624. The Echter von Mespelbrunn finally gave up the manor and moved the estate to its current location. From then on, Öttershausen was administered from Gaibach and no longer had its own district . Again, different masters came into possession of the goods.

In 1651 Philipp Erwein von Schönborn bought the village of Gaibach with the castle and the Öttershausen estate. From then on it was part of the extensive property of the count family. In the 18th century, renovation work began on the manor's buildings. From 1745 to 1747, under the construction management of Balthasar Neumann, the Schönborn'sche Gut Öttershausen was built, which was one of the most impressive in the region. In addition, a small settlement had established itself around the courtyard.

As early as the 18th century, Öttershausen was increasingly being inhabited by Jewish citizens. A synagogue was soon built in the village for five Jewish families . In 1880 the community dissolved. In the 20th century, the estate and the surrounding settlement gradually declined. After 35 years of vacant manor buildings, most of the manor buildings were demolished in 2011.

See also : Jewish community Öttershausen

Attractions

→ Main article : Hofgut Öttershausen

Due to the destruction of the 21st century, only a few monuments have survived in the village. From the manor of the Counts of Schönborn, only the bulk and distillery structures have survived, both of which date from the second half of the 16th century. In the 18th century the builder Balthasar Neumann made extensive changes. The buildings are empty and left to decay.

Another architectural monument is the wayside shrine from 1759. It originally stood on the road to Gaibach and has recently been moved to the site of a courtyard in the village.

literature

• Mario Dorsch: Disappeared Medieval Settlements. Desertification between Steigerwald, Main and the Volkach . Hassfurt 2013.
• Karl Treutwein : From Abtswind to Zeilitzheim. History, sights, traditions . Volkach 1987.

Web links

Commons : Öttershausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987. Issue 450 of the articles on Statistics Bavaria. Munich November 1991, p. 366 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Geography Giersbeck: Map 152 Würzburg , PDF file, accessed on January 10 of 2019.
3. ^ Treutwein, Karl: From Abtswind to Zeilitzheim . P. 183.
4. ↑ Alemannia Judaica: Jewish History in Öttershausen , accessed on August 29, 2014.