Dürrbach (desert)

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Dürrbach is a deserted area on the districts of Großlangheim and Wiesenbronn in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen . The village was abandoned in the 15th century. The reasons for this are unclear.

Geographical location

The Dürrbach desert lies between Wiesenbronn and Rödelsee in the southwest of the Wiesenbronn district. To the north is Kleinlangheim to find, while there is in the northeast of Wiesenbronn. The district of Castell begins further to the west, while the Schwanberg rises to the south with the Rödelsee district of the same name . Rödelsee can be found in the southwest, while Großlangheim can be found in the northwest . The so-called Dürrbach flows through the former district.

history

The village was mentioned for the first time in a document from 1170. At that time, the Würzburg prince-bishop Herold gave the Cistercian abbey of Ebrach some manses at the "monte Durrebach" (Latin mountain Dürrbach). On October 29, 1325, Count Hermann II zu Castell granted his vassal Berthold von Guckelberg the sale of some houses in the place "Durrbach". In 1340 the village reappeared in a property register of the Cistercian monastery Ebrach .

On May 27, 1374, the knights Erkinger and Endres Zollner sold some goods in the village "and on the mark one pfunt heller and four pfennig and the tenant doselbst" to Friedrich III. to Castell . Now, in 1378, the village only appeared in the personal name "Kunz Selnswolt, sat zu Durrebach". The Dürrbachers visited the church in Wiesenbronn, but were a branch of the Großlangheimer church.

The settlement was probably abandoned around 1400, perhaps due to the plague. On March 6, 1447, Count Wilhelm II zu Castell sold the "Durbach" desert for 10,000 guilders to Jörg von Henneberg and Truchseß von Wetzhausen in the Großlangheim office. Now Erkinger von Seinsheim sued this business because the village had originally been in the hands of his family.

Furthermore, the desert was in the center of Stadtschwarzach and the center was screaming even after the village was already deserted, the center was still here. Testimony from 1595 mention that Dürrbach consisted of only two farms and that the population was depraved. They are said to have played and drank in Wiesenbronn. As a reason for the abandonment of the village, it is referred to as a contact point for "bad boys".

In the period that followed, some processes developed around the use of the district. It was claimed by Großlangheim and Wiesenbronn. The Würzburg bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn finally had a house built on the desert before 1580. The village lords of Wiesenbronn intervened on December 19, 1580 and destroyed the newly built property. Thereupon Bishop Julius sued the Reich Chamber Court against Margrave Georg Friedrich , the Ebracher Abbot Leonhard , the Counts of Castell and others.

The process dragged on for several years and did not produce a final result. The district was still in dispute in 1671 and Großlangheim decided to bypass it. In 1692, plans were made to repopulate Dürrbach and the area was leased. On January 25, 1694, the Großlangheimer Amtskeller Roßhirt received the order to build a house here. The dispute over who belonged to the district continued until the 18th century, before it was dissolved and the area was converted into fields and vineyards.

literature

  • Roderich Machann: Desolations in the Steigerwald (= Mainfränkische Studien Vol. 5). Diss . Wuerzburg 1972.
  • Peter Rückert: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages in the Franconian Gäuland. Diss . Wuerzburg 1990.
  • Georg Spath: From the desert of Dürrbach . In: Yearbook of the district of Kitzingen 1979. In the spell of the Schwanberg . Münsterschwarzach 1979. pp. 232-237.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spath, Georg: Von der Wüstung Dürrbach . P. 232.
  2. ↑ Machann, Roderich: deserted villages in the Steigerwald . P. 102.
  3. ^ Rückert, Peter: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages . P. 167.
  4. ^ Spath, Georg: Von der Wüstung Dürrbach . P. 233.
  5. ^ Spath, Georg: Von der Wüstung Dürrbach . P. 237.

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 12.9 "  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 43.4"  E