Elbicherode (desert)
The Elbicherode desert is located in the district of Dünwald in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .
location
The former place was about one kilometer southeast of Hüpstedt on the thin plateau on the eastern edge of the Eichsfeld . At an altitude of about 440 m, there were no springs or streams available to the place, only wells and a few dry ditches carried water. The Mühlhäuser Landgraben runs to the south and east . Another presumed settlement is on the way between Hüpstedt and Elbicherode.
Spellings
A mix-up with the desert towns of Elcherode and Schalcherode , which are in the immediate vicinity in the community of Sollstedt, cannot always be ruled out due to the similar spelling in the documents and the ownership structure at the time. The certificates contain a variety of spellings, an exact assignment is not always possible with certainty. To what extent these places were related is not clear, the ditch separating the area on the Düne was only built in the 14th century. Here is a selection of other spellings: Ebelrode, Eichelrode, Ebrolderode, Ebelrolderode, Elbericherode.
History of the settlement
The place is often mentioned in connection with the Reifenstein monastery northwest of Hüpstedt . Members of various noble families transferred land, property and rights in the place to the monastery:
- 1260 Vogt of Ammern
- 1266 Hermann von Hagen with his brother's sons sells his estate (or the village?), Which he carried as a fief from Heinrich, Margrave of Meißen, and Margrave Heinrich von Meißen hands over the village of Elbicherode with the chapel in the same year
- 1307 Conrad Wolf from Kefferhausen renounces 4 Hufen Landes.
In 1268 the Archbishop of Mainz allowed the abbot of the monastery to restore the church in Elbericherode and to appoint a priest. The Reifenstein Monastery and the Brothers of the Order of St. Lazarus in Breitenbich exchange 1278 goods in town. In 1567 the "villa Albicherode" was sold by the Reifenstein monastery to Thomas Thonhos (but it is not certain whether this place is meant).
It is not known when the village was left, probably around the year 1400. In 1573 the residents of Hüpstedt asked Christoph von Hagen to be allowed to clear one hundred acres in this corridor. Between 1979 and 1987, numerous artefacts from the high to late Middle Ages and early modern times were recovered in the area of the desert, which are stored in the Mühlhausen local history museum.
literature
- Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : The desert areas of the Eichsfeld: 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, pp. 274-280
- Rolf Aulepp: Medieval desertification in the Eichsfelder part of the Mühlhausen district (IX). In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte, ed. Pedagogical District Cabinet Worbis, Eichsfelddruck Heiligenstadt 1990, Issue 3/4, pp. 303–305
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Duval: The Eichsfeld. Sondershausen 1845, page 103
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 21.4 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 28.5 ″ E