Albstadt (Alzenau)

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Albstadt
City of Alzenau
Albstadt coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 4 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 160 m above sea level NN
Residents : 1308  (May 1, 2009)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 63755
Area code : 06023
The Curate Church of St. Philip and St. James
The Curate Church of St. Philip and St. James

Albstadt is a district in the northeast of the city of Alzenau in Lower Franconia in Bavaria .

geography

The place is located in the district of Aschaffenburg on the edge of the historic Birkenhainer Straße , directly on the state border with Hesse at an altitude of 166 m above sea ​​level . The topographically highest point of the village marking is at 371  m above sea level. NN (location) on the summit of the Heidkopf west of the Teufelsgrund , the lowest is on the Weibersbach at 147  m above sea level. NN (location) .

Surname

etymology

It is wrongly assumed that the name Albstadt is derived from an Alb . The name goes back to the personal name Albo . The place is popularly called "Albspitt".

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

  • 889 Albsteti
  • 1244 Albestat
  • 1386 Albestad
  • 1562 Albis act

history

The oldest surviving mention of Albstadt can be found in a document from 1244 as Albestat . Albstadt was part of the Alzenau Free Court, which consisted of four regional courts. Here it belonged to the Somborn Regional Court. When the free court of Alzenau was divided between the Landgraviate of Hesse and Kurmainz in 1740, Albstadt was separated from the Somborn court , which fell to Hesse, remained with Kurmainz and subsequently became part of Bavaria .

The municipality of Albstadt belonged to the Alzenau district office , which was formed on July 1, 1862. On January 1, 1939, this became part of the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia .

On July 1, 1972, Albstadt was incorporated into Alzenau in Lower Franconia as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .

In the period from 1601 to 1605, five women and four men were convicted in witch trials from Albstadt and burned at the stake.

Worth seeing

  • One of the oldest wayside shrines in Lower Franconia stands in a field near the state border with Hesse . It is popularly called the Swedish Cross. According to an information board, the wayside cross dates from 1608 and was erected by local judges .
  • The Kuratiekirche Philippus und Jakobus has a parish garden that is well worth seeing
  • Culture Trail - Medieval Settlement

Honorary citizen of the former municipality of Albstadt

  • Auxiliary Bishop Alfons Kempf
  • Spiritual advice Leo Wolpert
  • Head teacher Kaspar Menth
  • Senior teacher Augustus Raps
  • Hella and Gottfried Hagen

literature

  • Alzenau Albstadt; Chronicle Alzenau-Albstadt, On the face, culture and past of a village; Artur Heinl, (Ed.) City of Alzenau

Web links

Commons : Albstadt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1980 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  3. ^ Heinrich Reimer: Hessisches Urkundenbuch . Dept. 2. Document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former Province of Hanau, Leipzig 1891ff, Bd. 1, Certificate 230 (26).
  4. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900-1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 212 .
  5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 417 .
  6. ↑ Names of the victims of the witch trials / witch persecution in Albstadt (PDF; 7 kB), accessed on May 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ Hans Ritter: Witch burning in the open court. Archive, March 13, 2008, accessed July 31, 2020 .
  8. ↑ http://www.alzenau.de/freizeit_gaestenetz/stadtgeschichte/sehenswuerdheiten/schwedenkreuz/index.asp
  9. ↑ Spessart News ( Memento from July 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Albstadt ( Memento from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )