Abbey (near Bürgel)

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A small stretch of land northeast of the city of Bürgel in Thuringia , in which the so-called abbey villages are located, is called an abbey . The naming of the landscape and places has its origin in the former Benedictine monastery in Thalbürgel , which owned the area of ​​the abbey with its villages in the Middle Ages. Three of the eight abbey villages are still districts of the city of Bürgel today.

The abbey is located in the Wethau valley not far from the city of Bürgel. The abbey itself forms a flat valley, sloping to the east, which in the north-west leads up to the limestone plates near the Tautenburger forest. The Wethau rises near Hohendorf and continues to flow northeast through the abbey. Stony, barren soil prevails on the plateaus, moist, loamy soil prevails in the lowlands. The highest point is at Hohendorf at 367 m above sea level. NN.

Today's abbey villages and districts of the city of Bürgel are Göritzberg , Hohendorf and Nischwitz . The remaining part of the abbey villages today forms the municipality of Rauschwitz with its districts Döllschütz , Karsdorfberg , Pretschwitz , Rauschwitz and Schmörschwitz . Numerous prehistoric and early historical finds as well as Slavic place names and round villages bear witness to an early Slavic settlement in the abbey.

literature

  • Georg Friedrich von Martens: Nouveau recueil de traites d'alliance, de paix, de treve, de neutralite, de commerce, de limites, d'echange etc. Volume 9, Dieterich, 1833, p. 391 ( Google books , accessed on 19 July 2012).
  • Friedrich August Nutzer (Ed.): In: Eisenbergisches Nachrichtensblatt . Local authority ordinances and notices. February 19, 1833, pp. 62–63 (quote from No. 7 of the Altend. Official and Nachr. Bl. Of February 12, 1833), digitized version , accessed on July 19, 2012.
  • Eckhard Waschnewski: Idea to found an organ association in the Bürgel parish . In: Official Gazette Bürgeler Anzeiger . Volume 21, No. 5, May 2, 2012, p. 11.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich August Vorteiler (Ed.): In: Eisenbergisches Nachrichtensblatt . Local authority ordinances and notices. February 19, 1833, pp. 62–63 (quote from No. 7 of the Altend. Official and Nachr. Bl. Of February 12, 1833)
  2. ^ Official Journal Bürgeler Anzeiger . Volume 21, No. 5, May 2, 2012, p. 11

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 19.7 ″  E