Etzelsbach (desert)

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View over the Etzelsbach pilgrimage chapel

Etzelsbach is a desert in the district of Steinbach in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

location

The desert is about one kilometer east of Steinbach in a meadow valley on the L 2018 state road to Breitenbach . Today the Etzelsbach pilgrimage chapel stands in the same place . In the immediate vicinity is the source of the Etzelsbach , after which the place was probably named. The brook flows into the Leine in Wingerode .

History of the settlement

The name is probably derived from the Old High German agaza for magpie, a place where many magpies occur. A derivation from the legendary Hun King Etzel cannot be proven. It is not known when Etzelsbach was founded as a settlement. The town must have been abandoned by the residents as early as the 15th century, only the church remained. Etzelsbach is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1525 in a damage record of the Beuren monastery, where the church and the brother's house were destroyed during the German Peasant War. In 1556 the place was called the Achzelsbach desert . It is not known whether the church was rebuilt afterwards. In 1801 a new chapel is reported to have been built. The current chapel was built in 1897 and 1898. There is only a few archaeological evidence of medieval settlement.

Pilgrimages

A pilgrimage to Etzelsbach is already accepted for the time before the church was destroyed in the Peasants' War. There were interruptions after the Peasants 'War and as a result of the Thirty Years' War . From the middle of the 17th century, pilgrimages to Etzelsbach were resumed.

literature

  • Helmut Godehardt: From the history of the Eichsfeld deserted Etzelsbach. Editor Kulturbund Worbis, Eichsfelder Heimathefte, No. 2 1985, pages 123-134
  • Andreas Anhalt. The place of pilgrimage Etzelsbach in Eichsfeld. Mecke Verlag Duderstadt 1998
  • Levin Freiherr von Wintzingeroda-Knorr: The desert areas of the Eichsfeld. List of desolations, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of justice and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt (province of Hanover), Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen (state and city) and Worbis (province of Saxony) . Ed .: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt. Halle / Saale 1903, p. 1113 .
  • Peter Anhalt: Different interpretations of the name "Etzelsbach". In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Vol. 56 (2012), issue 2, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2012, pp. 43–46

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Müller: The place names of the district of Heiligenstadt. Heilbad Heiligenstadt 1989, p. 16
  2. ↑ Helmut Godehardt: From the history of the Eichsfeldische Wüstung Etzelsbach Eichsfelder Heimathefte, Worbis 1985,127
  3. ^ Andreas Anhalt: Etzelsbach pilgrimage site of Pope Mecke Verlag, Duderstadt 2011, pp. 32–33
  4. ↑ Helmut Godehardt: From the history of the eichsfeldische Wüstung Etzelsbach Eichsfelder Heimathefte, Worbis 1985, 129-131

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 14.3 ″  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 2 ″  E