Drasenberg (Schlüchtern)

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Drasenberg is a former cloister courtyard and later hamlet in what is now the district of Schlüchtern in the East Hessian Main-Kinzig district . Today it belongs to the Schlüchtern district of Klosterhöfe .

Geographical location

Drasenberg is located in the northeast of the Main-Kinzig district at around 405 to 420  m above sea level. NHN , about 3 km north-northeast of the Schluechtern core town. It spreads on the southwest slope of the Dallstrauch ( Drasenberg ; approx.  450  m ).

history

middle Ages

The oldest mention of Drasenberg comes from 1303. The courtyard of the monastery Schlüchtern and later formed there Weiler then belonged to the late Middle Ages and the early modern period to the Office Schlüchtern the rule and later county of Hanau , from 1458 to Hanau-Münzenberg .

Early modern age

In 1493 farms on the Drasenberg are mentioned. Then the hamlet must have fallen desolately before 1500 . In 1538 two households are mentioned there again.

The County of Hanau-Münzenberg initially joined the Lutheran denomination during the Reformation , and was reformed from 1597 . Drasenberg was parish in Schlüchtern.

With the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , Drasenberg fell in 1736 with the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which in 1803 became the Electorate of Hesse .

Modern times

During the Napoleonic period, Drasenberg was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807–1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, under which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, Drasenberg belonged to the district of Schlüchtern . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War . In the second half of the 19th century, the farms in Drasenberg, Gomfritz , Raith and Röhrigs merged under the name "Klosterhöfe", now a district of Schlüchtern.

Historical forms of names

Drasenberg was mentioned under the following names in documents that have survived (the year in which it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Turf
  • Traseme (1303)
  • Lawn (1335)
  • Drasen (1361)
  • Trasenberg (1538)

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

  • 1538: 2 households
  • 1753: 3 households with 32 people
  • 1895: 7 houses with 48 people

literature

  • Matthias Nistahl: Studies on the history of the Schlüchtern monastery in the Middle Ages . Diss. Darmstadt and Marburg, 1986, pp. 138, 143, 187, 260, note 250.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Marburg 1926, p. 97.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Drasenberg, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 21, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 32.9 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 20.1 ″  E