Ütgenbach
Ütgenbach is a deserted area in the local community of Asbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied . From today to the district Schöneberg belonging deserted nor the only St. Florinus consecrated chapel survived.
Not far from the chapel you can see a hill with a moat and rampart. The tower castle Ütgenbach ( Motte ) once stood on the hill . This was probably the seat of the Lords of Ütgenbach, who moved to Ehrenstein in 1330 . In 1173 the donation of a property at Ütgenbach by the Archbishop of Cologne Arnold von Wied to the Schwarzrheindorf monastery, founded in 1147, is confirmed. A Dietrich von Ütgenbach is mentioned as a witness in Saynian documents between 1216 and 1234 and was Vogt of Elsaff near Asbach in 1222 .
His son Gerlach owned the Ütgenbach farm in 1263 as the center of a larger manor. Knight Rorich von Ütgenbach (1312-1345) called himself from 1331 Herr zu Ehrenstein . In a contract dated August 28, 1499, “Bertram von Nesselrode, Herr zu Ehrenstein and his wife Margarethe” commit themselves to a foundation of benefices for a priest and for a hospital for the poor in Ütgenbach. At the same time it is described that the "Castle of Ütgenbach was disturbed and broken".
The foundation for Ütgenbach was "incorporated" into the Kreuzherrenkloster Ehrenstein two years later, that is, in 1501 . For the year 1499 the honor of Ütgenbach is attested in the Cologne office of Altenwied. In 1626, the condition of the chapel and the hospital in Ütgenbach was checked as part of a visit without any complaints. The hospital was probably destroyed in 1632 during the Thirty Years War by the Swedish army under General Baudissin. The hospital came to Ehrenstein until the secularization in 1812.
The Ütgenbach farm must still have been inhabited in 1814, because an Asbach brotherhood directory from 1814 shows members from Ütgenbach. Around 1850 the tenants moved to Reeg and the half-timbered buildings were rebuilt in Asbach. The printing company Rahm from Asbach writes in its company history that today's company building once stood in Ütgenbach and was built in Asbach about 250 years ago.
According to tradition, Ütgenbach was the seat of the oldest parish church in the front Westerwald . Star-shaped corpses led to the cemetery . The nave of the still existing chapel is said to have been built in the 12th century. The Gothic choir was added around 1400. “A mysterious, healing spring was venerated” below the church.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '0.3 " N , 7 ° 26' 50.2" E