Office Elgersheim
The 10th Amt Elgersheim was a medieval and early modern administrative district of the Cistercian monastery Ebrach with its seat in the cloister courtyard in Elgersheim , which today belongs to the Lower Franconian town of Volkach. The office existed before 1340 and was given up in the second half of the 18th century.
history
The Elgersheim farm, the center of an entire village, came into the hands of the Ebrach monastery in the Steigerwald in 1178 . The place quickly rose to become the administrative center of the abbey in the region on the Mainschleife . The Cistercians, however, drove the displacement of the local population with the so-called Grangienwirtschaft , so that Elgersheim finally consisted only of this farm. The office was occupied by an administrator or two conventuals from Ebrach.
The scope of the office has varied greatly over the centuries. At the same time, the monks were also able to store many wineries as taxes from individual subjects in the cellars of the official court. As early as 1795, the office was no longer listed in the administrative documents of the monastery. After all, the Elgersheimer Hof was just a mere Meierhof . With the secularization and the dissolution of Ebrach, Elgersheim finally lost its central position.
scope
The tax area of the office fluctuated very strongly over the centuries and thus also symbolizes the influence of the monastery on the areas far removed from its core area in the Steigerwald. Unlike the offices of the Hochstift Würzburg , which were much more closed in terms of area and comprised a large part of the places on the Mainschleife, the Elgersheim office was only able to unite individual subjects, so-called Grundholde , in the different locations.
The office comprised 1340 rights in Volkach , Obervolkach , Gaibach , Krautheim , Wadenbrunn , Gieshügel , Fahr , Unter- and Obereisenheim , Kaltenhausen , Kolitzheim , Zeilitzheim , Astheim , Seligenstadt , Nordheim , Escherndorf , Köhler , Dipbach , Rimbach and Lülsfeld , whereby the taxes of the first three places mentioned benefited the chapel in the Elgersheimer Hof. In 1563 the number of villages had fallen sharply. Stadelschwarzach , Stammheim , Laub and Oberpleichfeld were added.
In 1677 the office consisted of rights in Volkach, Obervolkach, Nordheim, Köhler, Stammheim, Untereisenheim, Prosselsheim, Escherndorf, Astheim, Fahr, Kaltenhausen, Wadenbrunn, Rimbach, Lülsfeld, Stadelschwarzach, Laub, Oberpleichfeld, Neuses am Berg , Neuses am Sand , Lindach , Wipfeld and Schernau . In Volkach the office included two houses, a barn and a field hatch . In 1689 there were also subjects of the monastery in Öttershausen and Obereisenheim. But other places were no longer part of the office.
literature
- Mario Dorsch: Disappeared Medieval Settlements. Desertification between Steigerwald, Main and the Volkach . Hassfurt 2013.
- Gerhard Egert: City and Parish Volkach am Main (A contribution to the city history of Franconia). Part I. The urban territory from the beginnings to the end of the Old Kingdom in 1803. Diss . Volkach and Würzburg 1964.
- Georg Wehner: Elgersheim near Fahr - an old Ebrach monastery courtyard . In: Ute Feuerbach (ed.): Our Main Loop. 1993-2007 . Volkach 2008. pp. 22-24.