Falkenstein (Oedheim)
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Falkenstein
municipality Oedheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 26 " N , 9 ° 15 ′ 45" E
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| Height : | approx. 200 m above sea level NHN |
| Postal code : | 74229 |
| Area code : | 07136 |
 Falkenstein, seen from the Oedheimer Neuberg (March 2008)
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Falkenstein (until 1847: Ritterhof or Gut Neuhof ) is a hamlet that today belongs to the municipality of Oedheim in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg . There used to be a Roman estate ( villa rustica ) on the Falkensteiner district and later a castle or palace complex. Even before 1826 experimented Georg Christian Kessler here with local wines to come out of this sparkling wine "champagne style" - the current term of sparkling wine - producing.
history
Traces of a Roman settlement in the area around Falkenstein were first found in excavations in 1864 and 1865 in today's Gewann Gaißbusch , during which the foundation walls of an estate were exposed. A medieval castle or palace complex is known from documents from the 10th century, without the exact location of the complex being able to be found until today. It may have been destroyed during the Hungarian invasions in the 10th century. It is known of the von Falkenstein family that once a Hans von Falkenstein had a feud with a Hinz von Ahlhausen.
After that, there are only documents from the 15th century about the mark, which was now in the possession of the Teutonic Order and on which there were now various farms , but no castle. During the Peasants' War in the 16th century, these were given up and the fields lay fallow until the Kurmainzer Hofmeisterei in Billigheim bought the land. Hofmeister Winterheld reorganized the borders and leased the fields to farmers from Oedheim and Hagenbach . The Mainz rule did not last long: On March 15, 1705 Kurmainz sold land and the goods to the cellar of Stein , the brother-in-law of the Billigheim court master. The high and low jurisdiction fell to the Lords of Gemmingen-Presteneck .
In 1733 the Neuhof was owned by a Herr von Faber, a former Polish dragoon sergeant major. Other traditional owners are the Schöntal Monastery , in 1750 Friedrich Ernst von Süchteln, the Lords of Gemmingen-Bürg and in 1769 Georg David Jäger , the syndic of the knight canton of Odenwald .
In 1789 the imperial city of Heilbronn leased the Neuhof and set up a brewery here , the spring and cellar of which are still available today. In 1809 the organist and Heilbronn city judge Wilhelm Kessler acquired the Neuhof from the city of Heilbronn. Via Kessler's daughter Christiane Louise Strölin and her husband, the Neuhof came to her brother, the merchant Georg Christian Kessler, in 1820 . He initially acquired the Neuhof for the Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin champagne house in Reims, of which he was a partner. After his return to Germany in 1826, the property became part of his personal property. Kessler had been experimenting with the production of sparkling wine from German wines here for several years. In 1846 the area lost its independence: the northern part of the marking came to Untergriesheim , the southern part including the Neuhof and the Grollenhof, which was added to Oedheim in the 18th century . After the liberation of the peasants , the Falkensteiner Hof came into the hands of various bourgeois owners in 1850. In 1952/1953 the road to Oedheim was paved; Land consolidation took place in 1965 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Föll: The champagne factory of Dr. Christian Zeller and Rudolph Rauch , in: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Jahrbuch 32/1992, p. 219.
- ↑ Werner Föll: The champagne factory of Dr. Christian Zeller and Rudolph Rauch , in: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Jahrbuch 32/1992, p. 219.
- ↑ See: Rulf Neigenfind, The two lives of Georg Christian Kessler. The story of a famous stranger , 2nd edition, Paris 2012, p. 103. The copy of the sales contract dated December 23, 1820 is in the Ludwigsburg State Archives (E 173 III, Bü. 255101).
literature
- Anton Henkel: Oedheim. Contributions to local history . Oedheim community, Oedheim 1975.
- Alfons Denkinger: Oedheim and his courtyards . In: Ralph Walter (Ed.): 750 years of Oedheim. 1235-1985 . Community of Oedheim, Oedheim 1985, p. 146-165 .