Fuchsstatt

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Fuchsstatt (also Fuchsstadt ) is a deserted area on the boundary of the Lower Franconian market town of Abtswind . The village was probably finally given up in the 15th century. The reasons for this are unclear.

Geographical location

The former village is located about three kilometers from Abtswind. It lies in the east of the market town and borders further to the east on the Geiselwinder district of Rehweiler . The district road KT 15 divides the old district into two parts. The village was located above the Steigerwaldschwelle and was thereby exposed to the climatic conditions much more than the neighboring Abtswind. A hallway is still called "Fuchsstatt" today.

history

The village was first mentioned on October 2, 1281. At that time, Count Heinrich II zu Castell gave his consent to the Frauenroth monastery to convert their own property into a fiefdom. In 1298 Friedrich II zu Castell owned an estate in "villa Fustat". Again the village was mentioned in a document from the Frauenroth monastery. In 1325 Hermann von Thünfeld acquired tithe rights “in villa Fuhstat”.

In 1326, in turn, the village was named in a letter of purchase about fields near "Apeteswinde et Fuhstat" , at that time the Münsterschwarzach monastery held some goods in the village. The village was mentioned again in 1384. Wilhelm I. zu Castell awarded several farms in Abtswind and its surroundings that year. This also included goods in Fuchsstadt. At that time the village was called "Fuchstat das dörflein".

In 1399, however, the village was already known as "fuchstat die wustunge" and was probably deserted. In 1402 and 1426 people settled here again, they lived in a single emigrant farm in the area. In 1440 the village reappeared as "Hof und Wüstung zu Fuchsstatt". The village was gradually abandoned, first the smaller farmers gave up before the aristocratic Fronhof was finally abandoned.

In 1454 the residents of Langenberg, Geiselwind and Abtswind owned several fields in the desert area. In 1481 the desert was a fiefdom owned by Sigismund von Schwarzenberg . The fields were given to residents of Abtswind and Langenberg . At the end of the 18th century some ruins of the aristocratic court were still there.

After 1806, the Burghaslach rulership , part of the old county of Castell , took over the jurisdiction in the area of ​​the desert. The administration was carried out by the Royal Bavarian Office Geiselwind . In 1818 the corridor from Fuchsstatt fell to the small village of Rehweiler, which had been repopulated as the successor to the deserted hamlet . In the following years, however, the corridor of the desert changed its affiliation more often. Today she is part of Abtswind, which is a municipality in the district of Kitzingen .

literature

  • Roderich Machann: Desolations in the Steigerwald (= Mainfränkische Studien Vol. 5). Diss . Wuerzburg 1972.
  • Erwin Riedenauer: Desolation between the Main and Steigerwald . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research. Vol. 47 . Wuerzburg 1987.
  • Peter Rückert: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages in the Franconian Gäuland. Diss . Wuerzburg 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Machann, Roderich: deserted villages in the Steigerwald . P. 110.
  2. ↑ Digital collections: Erwin Riedenauer: Wüstungen between Main and Steigerwald . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research. Vol. 47 . Page 21 , accessed October 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Rückert, Peter: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages . P. 178.
  4. ↑ Digital collections: Erwin Riedenauer: Wüstungen between Main and Steigerwald . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research. Vol. 47 . Page 23 , accessed October 21, 2016.

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 11.6 "  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 16.3"  E