Althausen (Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld)

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Althausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 3 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 15 ″  E
Residents : 277  (1987)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 97631
Area code : 09761
Althausen (Bavaria)
Althausen

Location of Althausen in Bavaria

Althausen is a district of the town of Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld ( Bavaria ).

geography

The place is in the Lower Franconian part of the Grabfeld on the edge of the Haßberge Nature Park .

history

"Althausen" was first mentioned in 837. The first part of the place name contains the Old High German personal name "Altolt". In 1317 Althausen belonged as part of the "New Lordship of Henneberg" ( Care Coburg ) to the Heldburg Office of the County of Henneberg -Schleusingen. The Counts of Henneberg owned twelve hubs in Althausen, which are full-time farmers. Through two divisions of the Schleusinger line in 1347 and 1353, the place fell to Count Eberhard II of Württemberg . He sold Althausen to the Würzburg monastery in 1354 . Since then, the place has been part of the Würzburg district of Königshofen , which was temporarily pledged to the Henneberg-Aschach line in the 15th century. In 1744 the place received the brewing rights.

In 1803 Althausen was secularized in favor of Bavaria , then left in the Peace of Pressburg in 1805 to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , with which it finally fell to Bavaria in 1814 . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

From 1932 to 1936 and from 1970 to 1972 land consolidations were carried out in Althausen. On July 1, 1972, Althausen was incorporated into the town of Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld.

Culture and sights

religion

In 1413 a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene was mentioned. Gothic remains suggest that it was built in the early 14th century. In 1609 the church was expanded under Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . About the alleys of the former fortified church, which still exist today, the following is written: “... partly old, partly new, stand little around the churches, do not hinder them.” In 1693 the nave of the church was extended. In 1776 Johann Peter Herrlein painted the beautiful ceiling painting, depicting the suffering, arguing and triumphant church.

In 1811 Althausen, which up until this point had been cared for by the church in Königshofen, became its own parish at the instigation of the last abbot of the Bildhausen monastery , Nivardus Schlimbach, who was born in the community . Schlimbach also had a rectory built.

Architectural monuments

Personalities

  • Nivard Schlimbach (1747–1812), last abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Bildhausen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 499 .