Fachsenberg
The Fachsenberg in the city of Neresheim is a mountain tongue with a height of about 601 m above sea level. NHN . There was still a village there in the late Middle Ages .
location
The mountain tongue lies on the Elchingen district and is an extension of the plateau on which Elchingen lies. It is located about one and a half kilometers east of the village. The mountain tongue is delimited by the dry valleys Dossinger Tal in the east, the Elchinger Tal in the south and the Flochberger Tal in the north.
history
A Elchinger Legend has it that on the earlier Fachsenberg Fachsenschloss have been running the Knight of the Fachsenberg lived. In fact, in the files of Neresheim Abbey there is a property called Fachsenberg, which was bought by the Lorch Monastery in 1313 for £ 12. Heinrich Waltkircher lived there with his sons Konrad and Heinrich. Presumably Fachsenberg belonged to the lorchic office of Hohenlohe .
When the village left is unknown. It is not recorded on the original Württemberg map from 1830. If a castle actually stood on the mountain, it was in the immediate vicinity and in the field of view of Merkingen Castle .
literature
- The lordship of the Lorch Monastery , dissertation, Wolfgang Runschke, 2007 (PDF file)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oberamtsbeschreibung Neresheim: Elchingen
- ↑ Fachsenberg-König let the audience freeze. Swabian Post, February 26, 2003
Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 35.6 " N , 10 ° 17 ′ 23.1" E