Eichelberger Mark

The Eichelberger Mark was a market cooperative for forest use in the Taunus , more precisely in the Hochtaunus , which existed until the beginning of the 19th century.

It is a mountain range north of the community of Niedernhausen and its district of Oberjosbach . It culminates in the Buchwaldskopf ( 492  m above sea  level ) and the Großer Lindenkopf ( 499  m above sea level ).

The parishes of the western part of the parish of Schloßborn , i.e. the parish of Oberjosbach: Lenzhahn , Oberseelbach this side of the brook, Fritzensmühle, Oberjosbach , Ehlhalten this side of the brook, Niederjosbach and Hof Häusel were entitled to market rights . Dasbach was admitted to Eppstein in 1616 against the opposition of the Electoral Mainz cellar . Heftrich and Niedernhausen were also but not permanent members.

In a peace treaty (a so-called atonement treaty ) of 1283, which ended the Nassau-Eppstein feud between the two neighboring and warring mansions Nassau-Idstein and Eppstein , between Count Adolf von Nassau and Gottfried von Eppstein, Adolf von Nassau was given jurisdiction in the forest. Nassau-Idstein therefore appears later as Obermärker. The Mainz Albansstift , the Arnstein Monastery , Der Stalhof in Esch and Reifenberg (for the first time from 1430) had rights to the Mark . In 1441 the rights of Nassau were confirmed in a recess between Count Johann von Nassau and Gottfried von Eppstein. In 1496, the Arnstein Monastery owned a quarter of the Vogtei over the Mark and the Eichelberg. In a recess in 1595, Kurmainz and Nassau-Idstein agreed on their rights in the market.

The Märkergeding was held in Oberjosbach in front of the church under the linden tree.

When the Mark was divided in 1808, the area was 1,000.5 acres .

In the areas bordering the Eichelberger Mark, intensive charcoal burning was carried out in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . A plaque from the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park in the forest northwest of Oberjosbach reports on this . Several hundred Meilerplatten from former Meiler locations were mapped there between 2007 and 2012 and bear witness to the historic charcoal industry. Iron slag heaps and wolf pits exist in the forests around the Eichelberger Mark as further cultural and historical landscape elements.

Today the area is largely part of the subdivision of Niedernhausen, a smaller part belongs to Idstein .

literature

• Adolf Tham: The Atonement Treaty; in: 700 years of Niedernhausen and Königshofen, 1983, pp. 75–85
• Gerd Bethke: Main-Taunus-Land: Geschichtliches Ortslexikon, 1996, pp. 43–44