Affeltrach

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Affeltrach (also Affeldrach , Effeltrich ) is a desert in the area of ​​the independent city of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia. The village was abandoned at the beginning of the 14th century. The reasons for leaving the settlement are unclear.

Geographical location

The localization of the settlement proves to be difficult. Oeller suspects that Affeltrach was in the immediate vicinity of today's Schweinfurt district of Bellevue , which is part of the Musikerviertel district . Thus, the village would have to be located next to the Hilpersdorf settlement, which had also fallen into desolation . The settlement area is largely built over; the four-lane Niederwerrner Straße ( Bundesstraße 303 ) passes by to the north. The Wern probably flowed through the village . A corridor is called Affeltrach.

history

The place name Affeltrach is probably derived from the Old High German word for apple tree , aphaltar . The ending -ach indicates a larger number. Affeltrach would then have been the settlement near the apple trees. The village was probably founded in pre-Christian times, when Germanic tribes advanced into Franconia ; the ending in any case indicates that the settlement is very old.

At first Affeltrach was probably part of the widely ramified kingdom of the Franks . There lived rear passengers who were at the king's service. During the 9th and 10th centuries, the monarch's closed possessions were gradually dissolved and given away to deserving groups of people. Affeltrach came to the monks of the Boniface Abbey in Fulda . It was first documented in the monastery in 951 as "Affeldrahe".

In the document from 951 Affeltrach can be identified for the last time as a flourishing village. Because as early as 1313, the village was only mentioned as a desert in the interest books of the Teutonic Order . "In the Affalderech" Schweinfurt's citizen Heinrich Kuchenkneth half had Hube held. In 1337 Kunigunde Durre owned fields "behind the Affaltirreich". The settlement probably disappeared at the beginning of the 14th century and the residents moved to nearby Hilpersdorf.

See also

literature

  • Anton Oeller: The place names of the district of Schweinfurt (= Mainfränkische Studien 8) . Würzburg 1955.
  • Peter Rückert: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages in the Franconian Gäuland. Diss . Wuerzburg 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Oeller, Anton: The place names of the district of Schweinfurt . P. 52.
  2. ^ Rückert, Peter: Land expansion and desertification in the high and late Middle Ages . P. 146.

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 15.7 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 35.6 ″  E