Finkenhain (desert)

Finkenhain was a place in the Hintertaunus, southeast of today's Laubach (Taunus) .

In 1100 a place called vinkenhagen is mentioned in a document. 1401 it is mentioned as Fynkenheim, 1405 as Finckenhayn . In 1580 Finkenhain was still referred to as a desert with the words “long expired” .

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhard Michel: From the desert in the Hochtaunuskreis . In: Ingrid Berg, Eugen Ernst, Hans-Joachim Galuschka, Gerta Walsh (eds.): Heimat Hochtaunus . Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , p. 163-171 .

50.3574 8.448014Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '26.6 " N , 8 ° 26' 52.9" E

[1] Reinhard Michel: From the desert in the Hochtaunuskreis . In: Ingrid Berg, Eugen Ernst, Hans-Joachim Galuschka, Gerta Walsh (eds.): Heimat Hochtaunus . Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , p. 163-171 .