Borne (desert)

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Borne is a 15th century desolate fallen former settlement in the district of Frankershausen , in the municipality of Berkatal in northern Hesse Werra-Meissner .

location

The settlement was located about 1.5 km north-northwest of the center of Frankershausen and not far north of the two karst springs Breitenborn and Kressenborn , at 259  m above sea level. NN in the valley floor between Marstein (321 m) and Ellerstein (323 m). Her name apparently referred to her close proximity to the two sources. Only about two hundred meters further south in the Bachtal was the small settlement of Oberndorf , also desolate today, in the immediate vicinity of today's Oberdorfer Mühle .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1301, when the last Count of Bilstein , Otto II., Sold all of his remaining property to Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse , but apparently existed before that. The place then belonged to the landgrave court of Bilstein. In 1498 it was described in the Bilsteiner Salbuch as desolate. An estate or Vorwerk in the desert of the Borne was then a landgrave fief of the Lords of Trott and later of the von Verschuer family, who were related by marriage to them . After the Borne settlement was abandoned, the “Bornäcker” were farmed from Kammerbach , Frankenhain , Frankershausen and Orferode . Only a few high and late medieval shards have been found on the site of the former settlement.

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 58 ″  E

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