Elgersheim

Elgersheim City of Volkach Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 35 ″  E
Height :	200 m
Residents :	10  (1987)
Postal code :	97332
Area code :	09381
Location of Elgersheim (bold) within the Volkach municipality

Elgersheim is a wasteland on the parish of the Volkach district of Fahr in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

Elgersheim is located in the west of the Volkacher municipality. To the north, separated by the Main , begins the district of Würzburg ; the community of Eisenheim is closest to Elgersheim. To the east is the city of Volkach. To the south, also traversed by the Main, is the Vogelsburg monastery .

The closest larger cities are Kitzingen and Schweinfurt , 15 and 19 kilometers away respectively. The next big city is Würzburg, 20 kilometers away .

Naturally, Elgersheim is in the area of ​​the Volkacher Mainschleife , which is counted as a sub-unit of the Middle Main Valley of the Mainfränkische Platten .

history

Elgersheim was founded in the 7th or 8th century as a royal estate of the Franconian rulers. From the 10th century, changing monasteries and noble families ruled the estate before it was assigned to the Steigerwaldkloster Ebrach in the 12th century . In 1340 the monastery also received jurisdiction over Elgersheim. The monks also set up an administrative district in the courtyard .

With the secularization , the parish of the property was assigned to the community of Fahr, which was in the district of Volkach . In 1821 the town of Volkach received the buildings and set up a retirement home in them, the benefactors were looked after by nuns. It was not until 1954 that the facility was dissolved and the buildings leased.

Attractions

The Elgersheimer Hof forms the center of the district. The Hofgut presents itself as a two-storey half - hipped roof , which was built from plastered quarry stone masonry . It was created in its current form in the early 18th century. The outbuildings are to be assigned to the 17th century, a wall ring surrounds the property.

Quarry ponds can be found in the immediate vicinity . The nature reserve Sandgrasheiden at Elgersheimer Hof was designated in 1986.

literature

• Mario Dorsch: Disappeared Medieval Settlements. Desertification between Steigerwald, Main and the Volkach . Hassfurt 2013.
• Georg Wehner: Elgersheim near Fahr- an old Ebrach monastery courtyard . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop, 1993-2007 , Volkach 2008

Web links

Commons : Elgersheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987. Issue 450 of the articles on Statistics Bavaria. Munich November 1991, p. 366 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Geography Giersbeck: Map 152 Würzburg , PDF file, accessed on January 10 of 2019.
3. ↑ See: Wehner, Georg: Elgersheim bei Fahr