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Eckstieg is an isolated district of the Marth community in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

location

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The Eckstieg settlement is located on the left side of the Leine valley , about 1 km southwest of Marth, and was built on a north-facing spur across the valley opposite the meadow mill. The Steinsbach flows into the Leine about 100 m away opposite the mill. Today the district road  71 and the railway line Halle – Kassel in the section Arenshausen - Heilbad Heiligenstadt pass on the left bank of the Leine and the federal road 80 on the right bank of the Leine.

history

The place Eckstieg was mentioned on April 25, 1566 in a court case that a Peter Eckstieg from Hof ​​Eckstieg attended Marth as a witness. The process dealt with the rights of use and the extension of the corridor of the village of Stein, which fell into desolation before 1500 and which is said to have extended for a length of about 2 km along the Steinbach up to the confluence with the Leine. This deserted stone area was inhabited by a branch of the later powerful Hanstein noble family before 1200 . The background to the Wüstung Stein, handed down in literature in the 19th century ( by Wintzingerrode-Knorr ), shows that the Hansteins encouraged (or blackmailed?) Their subjects from several small villages in the Arenshausen area to move to the Werra Valley to follow them , because Rusteberg Castle, only 2 km away, near Marth, was already used as a base by the Archdiocese of Mainz in the Staufer-Welf throne dispute. During this time the Hansteins could not counter a permanent confrontation with the castle men of the Rusteberg, they were (forcibly?) Expelled and apparently left behind "scorched earth" when they left.

With the desertification of the village of Stein, a traffic problem persisted, which favored the (re) emergence of the Eckstieg-Hof. At the “White Mill” - now Wiesenmühle - there was an important Leine ford. The Altstraße leading to the south (from Rumerode the path joins the “Kleine Heerstraße”) used the moderately steep terrain at the Eckstieg-Hof to gain about 80 to 100 meters in altitude between the valley floor and the edge of the valley. For freight wagons, pre-tensioning services were required on such steep slopes, so the Eckstieg-Hof could have had a greater importance than the management of the surrounding pastures and arable land, suggest the passages cited by Levin Freiherr von Wintzingeroda-Knorr.

In the 19th century, the Eckstieg had four farmsteads that were grouped not far from the ford on both sides of the ascending road. At the upper edge of the valley, stone quarries had to be built for the construction of the railways, which were probably further exploited by the farm owners after the railroad embankments were completed.

Web links

Commons : Eckstieg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L. von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of justice and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 914 .
  2. ↑ L. von Wintzingeroda-Knorr: Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes… O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 281 .
  3. ↑ Preußische Landesaufnahme (Ed.) Mestischblatt 2667 Witzenhausen Edition 1909

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '  N , 10 ° 0'  E