Bubenbach (desert)
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 46 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 27 ″ E
Bubenbach was a village on the northern edge of today's district of Rautenhausen , a district of Bebra in the eastern Hessian district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg, which was first documented in 1230 .
location
The small village was about 1.75 km east-north-east of Rautenhausen in the Richelsdorf Mountains on the Cornberger Water and at the foot of the Großer Bärenkopf (413 m) in the narrow valley floor near today's forester's house, immediately north or east of the Fulda - Werra watershed . The federal road 27 between Bebra and Sontra and the Bebra – Göttingen railway , which crosses under the watershed a few hundred meters west-southwest in the 718 m long Cornberg tunnel, run immediately to the west of the former location . The former Cornberg passenger station is located about 100 m to the northeast .
history
In Bubenbach, which was already an existing settlement at that time, a group of beguines settled in 1220 . In 1230 they submitted to the abbot and convent of the imperial abbey of Hersfeld and the rules of the Benedictine nuns . Their establishment was subsequently referred to as the St. Nikolai Monastery , but without a real monastery complex being built in Bubenbach. The small village church obviously also served the nuns . In 1296 the nuns moved into the 1292-96 for them newly built, 1.5 km further north Kloster Cornberg order.
The plague epidemic of 1348/49, the Black Death , decimated the population of Bubenbach, and most of the survivors emigrated in the following years. As early as 1363 and 1366, the place was only referred to as a courtyard. The Nikolauskirche was only used as a pilgrimage church, was mentioned as such around 1500, but then disappeared around 1600. In 1525 the place was called "die wustenung, gnant zu s. Claus zu Boymbach".
Stones, bricks , human skeletons and the remains of a small church were found during excavations in the 20th century . Remains of a monastery complex have not yet been proven.
Web links
- Bubenbach, Benedictine convent, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Bubenbach desert, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
literature
- Ernst Henn: Cornberg. Fate of a women's community. 1230-1526. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4135-6 .