Emserberg

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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 39 ″  E

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Emserberg (also Emsberg ) was a village settlement that was probably built in the 13th century and fell into desolation towards the end of the 15th century in what is now the area of the small town of Niedenstein in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district . More than 200 ceramic shards from the 13th and 14th centuries were found on the site, but building remains or other settlement relics have not been preserved.

View from the Hessenturm to Niedenstein and the Emser Berg (left)

Geographical location

The former settlement was located in the northwest of the district of Niedenstein, almost 2 km west of the core town, on the northern slope of the 446.5 m high Emser Berg between the core town of Niedenstein in the east and the Bad Emstal districts of Sand in the west and Merxhausen in the southwest.

The village site consisted of several courtyards and lay on a Hangverebnung of about 250 meters in diameter, about 400 meters above sea level in the region of two there springing sources . Another farm was about 250 meters southwest on a former small stream. At the edge of the slope, several medieval field borders can still be seen running parallel to the mountain slope .

history

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1335, when the knight Heinrich and his wife Luitgard von Wolfershausen sold their village and court Emseberg , which the von Wolfershausen had acquired through marriage in 1304, to the knight Konrad Wackermaul and his wife Gertrud. In March 1344 Konrad and Gertrud Wackermaul transferred income from ten fields in Emseberg to Konrad's sisters, the nuns Jutta and Luitgard in the Merxhausen monastery . The village seems to have come into the possession of the nobleman Ludwig von Buchenau immediately afterwards, because in May 1344 he announced that he had sold the village of Emmeseberg with court, tithe and accessories to the provost Conradt and the convent of Merxhausen monastery for 52 marks of silver; It is assumed that Konrad Wackermaul's widow Gertrud was married to Ludwig von Buchenau for the second time and that the village was her dowry .

The settlement was originally an Electoral Mainz fiefdom , but came to the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1354, like almost all previous Mainz possessions in Lower and Upper Hesse . Subsequently, the landgraves enfeoffed their own feudal lords with the village or parts of it, but the Merzhausen monastery also acquired further property and income in the village through purchases and donations until at least 1403. Around 1376 the brothers Rudolf, Curd and Wiederhold von Wichdorf owned an estate in Emserberg as a landgrave's castle fief. In 1385 , Landgrave Hermann II pledged the village, which belonged to the Balhorn court in the Gudensberg district , to Friedrich III. von Hertingshausen , to whom he owed 950 gold guilders for various services . In 1428 Landgrave Ludwig I gave the village to Reinhard the Elder as part of a Niedenstein castle and man fief . Ä. von Dalwigk , then to Hermann Hund in 1434 . The dogs were enfeoffed with it until 1655.

The single farm, which lies a little to the south-west, was a landgrave fief of the Hess von Wichdorf from 1389, initially and also in 1444 as a velvet fief together with the Schade. After the death of Daniel Wilhelm Hess the Elder. J. in 1631 he was transferred to the Rabe von Pappenheim .

The village was probably given up in the 15th century at the latest. In 1489, only the Emserberg wood is reported, and in a document from the Merxhausen Hospital from 1544, when Kurt Hess sold the meadows and woodland he held there as a Hessian fief to the hospital, Emserberg is referred to as a desert. The mortgages announced in the following period relate only to the Emserberg wood, without exception.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The place name appears in manifold variations over the centuries: Emseberg (1335, 1434), Emzeberg (1335), Emmeseberg, Emmesberg (1344), Ymmeseberg (1377), Ymseberg (1384), Emsperg (1388), Emeselberg (1399) , Emesberg (1403), Emeßebergk (1489), Amenschenburg (1539), Emsserberg (1557), Amelsburg (1558), Emßberg (1573), Embser Berg (1575/85), Embßerberg (1577), Ameschenburgk (1579), Emeseberg (1593), Embßburgk (1628). ( Emserberg, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)
  2. ↑ a b Emserberg, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ Ernst Wolfgang Heß von Wichdorf: Contributions to the history of the town of Niedenstein and the Heß v. Family. Wichdorf. In: Hessenland: Journal for Hessian History and Literature , Kassel 1888, No. 8, April 15, 1888, pp. 115–116
  4. ↑ The Wackermaul also called themselves Wackermaul von Wichdorf after their ancestral seat ( Carl Heßler (Hrsg.): Hessische Landes- und Volkskunde: The former Kurhessen and the hinterland at the end of the 19th century. Elwert, Marburg, 1907, p. 193 ).
  5. ↑ The Wackermaul died out in the male line with Konrad in 1344 and Widukind in 1346.
  6. ↑ Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten, Bernecker, Melsungen, 1972, p. 79
  7. ↑ This was the price for the military assistance that Landgrave Heinrich II. Archbishop Gerlach von Nassau had provided against his rival Heinrich von Virneburg ; only Fritzlar , Amöneburg and Naumburg remained in Mainz ownership .
  8. ^ Bad Emstal cultural and history association: Emser Berg
  9. ↑ Landgrave Regest online No. 2973. Regest of the Landgrave of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  10. ^ Niedenstein, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  11. ↑ Landgrave Regests online No. 3102. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  12. ↑ Landgrave Regests online No. 3193: Otto and Heinrich Schade receive goods in Emserberg and Mutslar (May 20, 1444). Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  13. ^ Ernst Wolfgang Heß von Wichdorf: Contributions to the history of the town of Niedenstein and the Heß v. Family. Wichdorf. In: Hessenland: Journal for Hessian History and Literature , Kassel 1888, No. 8, April 15, 1888, pp. 115–116

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