Costloff

Costloff is a desert near Medenbach , an eastern suburb of Wiesbaden on the foothills of the Taunus . The field name "Kosloff" still reminds of this former village , about 500 meters south of Medenbach on the way to the neighboring town of Breckenheim .

Spelling of the name

Medenbach and Costloff in Wilhelm Dilich's country tables

Costloff is the official spelling for the submerged place. As a new street name it was included in the street directory of the state capital Wiesbaden in 1975 before Medenbach was incorporated into Wiesbaden in 1977.

It is believed that the place name can be traced back to Franconian times. Documents prove different spellings, e.g. For example: "Costolf" in the 13th to the 15th century, "Kostorf" for the year 1323 and "Costlof (f)", "Kostenloff" or "Cosloff" in the 16th century. The current spelling “Costloff” can be found on the map of the topographer Wilhelm Dilich from 1607.

history

prehistory

From prehistoric times, not only readings from the Neolithic , such as corded pottery shards, prove a very early settlement of the area of Costloff. In addition, this was confirmed by geophysical investigations on the earth's surface in this area, which were carried out in 2003 by the Medenbacher Heimat- und Geschichtsverein with the help of a fluxgate magnetometer .

A so-called Napoleon hat, which is rarely well preserved, points to formerly extensive trade relations in prehistoric times . It is a Celtic millstone from the La Tène period , which was made from Eifel basalt lava .

More recent readings from Roman times show that the place was still inhabited , but further geoelectrical measurements would be necessary, for example, to locate the presumed location of a Roman villa .

middle Ages

Obviously no evidence has survived from the Migration Period or the early Middle Ages . Only at the end of the High Middle Ages , 1252, was Costloff first mentioned in a document. In the late Middle Ages , 1492, Costloff and other villages in the so-called Ländchen were given to the Hessian Landgrave Wilhelm III. passed over from the House of Hesse .

At the beginning of the 16th century Costloff had more inhabitants than Medenbach and seemed to have been quite prosperous because of its fertile farmland. Interestingly, at that time on its southern slopes opposite the settlement - just like z. B. in the neighboring towns of Nordenstadt or Igstadt and elsewhere in the country also - successfully grown wine that was sold as far as the Netherlands .

In 1587 the population in Costloff fell to 9 families, while that in Medenbach had grown to 120. The place was apparently mentioned for the last time in 1592 and 1604 when it was estimated together with Medenbach . In 1630 this is no longer the case.

So it can be assumed that Costloff was burned to the ground in the first decade of the Thirty Years War and then degenerated into a desert. The Medenbacher took building materials from the ruins - e.g. B. oak beams of the former half-timbered houses that were still usable - and used them to build stables and barns , some of which can still be identified in situ today.

literature

Ernst Pfeiffer. From Medenbach's past days - Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary. Anniversary of the MGV "Frohsinn" Medenbach, Nordenstadt 1933, p. 10 ff
Dirk Rost, The history of Medenbach from the beginnings to the Napoleonic wars, in: Chronik der Gemeinde Medenbach, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim 1984, p. 28
Otto Renkhoff and Helmut Dauber, On the local history of Nassau: Medenbach near Wiesbaden, Nassauische Annalen 109, 1998, p. 416 ff
Günter Sommer, In search of traces of the old village Kosloff, Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Medenbach 1993 eV, Wiesbaden 2005

Individual evidence

^ Renaming of local roads, 400 suggestions from the population were taken into account, Wiesbadener Kurier, November 17, 1975
^ Renkhoff / Dauber: On the local history of Nassau: Medenbach near Wiesbaden. 1998, p. 416 f.
↑ Summer: In search of traces of the old village of Kosloff. 2005, p. 6.
↑ The prehistoric finds are kept in the Heimatmuseum Medenbach [1] .
↑ "Summer: In search of traces of the old village Kosloff . 2005, p. 8. "
↑ Ekkehard Kunz, "Das Ländchen", small local history notes on the "Ländchen", a landscape area between Wiesbaden and Hofheim, Historical Workshop Nordenstadt , Association for Home History eV, Nordenstadt 2005, p. 31 f
↑ In the 1970s, older Medenbach citizens still knew how to procure materials from the old Costloff and were able to name such buildings precisely. So has z. For example, a building called the “Costloff House” was preserved, the oak beams of which are charred and have wood connections that were no longer common in the carpentry trade after 1700.

Web links

"Kostloff, City of Wiesbaden". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

50.097703 8.345641Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '52 " N , 8 ° 20' 44" E

[1] Renaming of local roads, 400 suggestions from the population were taken into account, Wiesbadener Kurier, November 17, 1975

[2] Renkhoff / Dauber: On the local history of Nassau: Medenbach near Wiesbaden. 1998, p. 416 f.

[3] Summer: In search of traces of the old village of Kosloff. 2005, p. 6.

[4] The prehistoric finds are kept in the Heimatmuseum Medenbach [1] .

[5] "Summer: In search of traces of the old village Kosloff . 2005, p. 8. "

[6] Ekkehard Kunz, "Das Ländchen", small local history notes on the "Ländchen", a landscape area between Wiesbaden and Hofheim, Historical Workshop Nordenstadt , Association for Home History eV, Nordenstadt 2005, p. 31 f

[7] In the 1970s, older Medenbach citizens still knew how to procure materials from the old Costloff and were able to name such buildings precisely. So has z. For example, a building called the “Costloff House” was preserved, the oak beams of which are charred and have wood connections that were no longer common in the carpentry trade after 1700.