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Breitendelle (also Breidendelle ) is a submerged settlement of today's city of Battenberg (Eder) in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse .

location

The place was east of Alertshausen . Over the Hohe Warte towards today's Binsenbach homestead in a side valley. The settlement still exists under the field name em Brehredoal (in Breitental).

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1059. This year the villa (country house) Breidendelle belongs to the parish of Elsoff. The noble landlord Buobo von Elsoff completed the split from the Raumländischen mother church in this year . In order to be able to hold mass, baptism and the intercession of the deceased in Elsoff, he transferred part of his lands to the church in Raumland. The localities Schwarzenau , Beddelhausen , Elsoff and Alertshausen appear in the corresponding document . The desolate villages of Gospershausen , Oberruhn and Leinefa can also be found again. It is not possible to say exactly when the place was abandoned. The place was most likely abandoned due to the altitude and the associated lack of water.

literature

  • Günther Wrede : Territorialgeschichte der Grafschaft Wittgenstein (= Marburg studies on older German history. Series 1: Work on the historical atlas of Hesse and Nassau. H. 3, ZDB -ID 506846-0 ). Elwert, Marburg 1927 (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1927).
  • Lars Womelsdorf, contributions to the history of Alertshausen