Dürrnbuch (Geiselwind)

Dürrnbuch Geiselwind market Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 14 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	442 m
Residents :	88  (2001)
Postal code :	96160
Area code :	09556
Location of Dürrnbuch (bold) in the Geiselwinder municipality

Dürrnbuch is a village in the district of hostage Winder hamlet of Hague in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

Dürrnbuch is located in the south of the Geiselwinder municipality. Geiselwind is located in the north, separated by the Federal Motorway 3. To the southeast lies Haag , and to the south begins the area of the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district . Rehweiler extends to the northwest . In the district of Dürrnbuch there are the 472 m high Herpersberg , the 466 m high Trauberg and the Bücherberg as part of the Steigerwald .

Closest towns are Scheinfeld , around 10 kilometers away, and Kitzingen, around 20 kilometers away.

history

The place name of Dürrnbuch refers to the natural occurrences around the village. The suffix -buch was widespread in the 13th century, many local foundations on the Steigerwald step arose with this name. In the 14th century, additions to names were introduced to differentiate between the places that were sometimes close to one another. However, the prefix Dürr- did not appear until the 16th century and is an indication of water scarcity. So Dürrbuch was the arid place in the beech forest .

Dürrnbuch was mentioned for the first time shortly after its presumed founding in 1258. The village appeared in the partition contract between Hermann and Heinrich zu Castell as "villa Buch" (village Buch). In 1303 and 1313 an Ulrich von Wisenprunn is recorded with goods in Buch and Langenberg . The size of the village was outlined for the first time in a land register of the burgraviate of Nuremberg . In 1362 it was given for "Buch" or "Puch uf der Heyde" with nine strokes . The Counts of Castell gave some fiefs to deserving farmers in the village.

In 1380 the knight Erkinger Zollner sold the tithe of the village to the Nuremberg citizen Katharina Gelderin. Between 1384 and 1399 the village was called "Buch vor dem walde". In 1426, the rich lower aristocratic Erkinger von Seinsheim, Herr zu Schwarzenberg, acquired the tithe over the villages of Buch and Haag. Towards the end of the 15th century, several noble families were wealthy in the village. In 1480, for example, the Lords of Leonrod and the Vestenberg received fiefs from the Counts of Castel.

After the so-called Gnodstadt reversal, when the male line died out, Buch came back to Castell. Only the barons of Schwarzenberg held four estates in "Durren Buoch" in 1550. In 1571 the counts exchanged some goods in Geiselwind for these goods. 1592 the village belonged to centering Burghaslach in the county of Castell . In 1596 the name "Dürrenbuch" appeared for the first time. Around 1790 all 14 Dürrnbuch subjects were part of the Rüdenhausen office.

After mediatization at the beginning of the 19th century, Dürrnbuch belonged to the municipality of Haag , which had belonged to the Scheinfeld district office since 1862 . Dürrnbuch became a fruit growing village in the Steigerwald. Solid roads to Dürrnbuch were not built until 1952, before it was only accessible via dirt roads. The village has been part of the Geiselwind community since 1972.

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Geiselwind-Dürrnbuch

The village's Evangelical-Lutheran cemetery chapel dates from 1851. The building is open to the cemetery and has been fitted with continuous wooden benches that rest on stone blocks. An inscription stone set into the north wall of the church refers to the previous chapel from 1597.

The former inn of the village dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century and is a half hipped roof building with corner pilasters . In addition, some typical Franconian farmhouses from the 19th century have been preserved in Dürrnbuch. The courtyard gate posts are also worth seeing.

legend

During the Thirty Years' War Dürrnbuch was almost deserted after frequent passages by enemy troops. One evening a woman knocked at the gate and asked the village mayor for shelter in the village. At first the Schulze wanted to refuse, but when the woman heard that a woman in the village was in labor, she pushed the Schulze aside and nursed the woman who had recently given birth for days. This is how Kathla, as she was later called, saved the life of the mother and child.

The villagers were grateful and Kathla received a small house in the west of the village. She became Dürrnbuch's midwife and also knew the herbs that helped people with all kinds of diseases. The village bather supported the Kathla and both agreed on a kind of division of labor: He concentrated on the sick animals in the village and the Kathla took care of the people. So Dürrnbuch recovered from the burden of war.

After the end of the war, the Bader's son returned and brought the witch craze with him to Dürrnbuch. The village population was quickly split and stones flew against the Kathla house. When a Kathla neighbor was expecting a child, he did not call the midwife. He entered his house and recognized Kathla's black cat jumping out the window. After the mother and child did not survive the birth, the guilty party was immediately determined.

The villagers, seduced by the barber's son, went to the neck court and reported the incidents. The rulers dispatched armed men to bring the Kathla to an embarrassing interrogation . But when the door to her house was broken open, Kathla was discovered dead at her table. Only the cat hissed in the corner. Since then, the legend has been going around that in Dürrnbuch the calamities of the war should be repeated even in peaceful times.

literature

• Hans Bauer: District of Kitzingen. An art and culture guide . Market wide 1993.
• Erwin Müller: Geiselwind in the middle of Franconia. With landscape studies and history . Scheinfeld 2001.
• Wolf Dieter Ortmann: District of Scheinfeld (= historical place name book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, vol. 3) . Munich 1967. Local name part .
• Theophil Steinbrenner, Gerhard Wahler, Auguste Steinberger, Felix von Fokczynski (eds.): Intermediate lights. Traditional stories from the old county of Castell . Albertshofen² 1979.

Web links

Commons : Dürrnbuch (Geiselwind)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Müller, Erwin: Geiselwind in the middle of Franconia . P. 233.
2. ^ Ortmann, Wolf Dieter: District of Scheinfeld . P. 34.
3. ^ Ortmann, Wolf Dieter: District of Scheinfeld . P. 33.
4. ^ Ortmann, Wolf Dieter: District of Scheinfeld . P. 34.
5. ↑ Müller, Erwin: Geiselwind in the middle of Franconia . P. 233.
6. ^ Bauer, Hans: District of Kitzingen . P. 84.
7. ↑ Steinbrenner, Theophil (ed. And others): Zwischenlichten . P. 89 f.