Gerzhausen

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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 53 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 55 ″  E

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Gerzhausen is a deserted village in today's district of Waltersbrück , a district of the Neuental community in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse . It is not known when the place, first mentioned in a document in 1209, was left.

Geographical location

The place was at an altitude of 239  m on the western slope of the Schwalm valley, about 1.8 km southwest of Waltersbrück and 1.8 km north of Schlierbach in the Feldmark. The Goldbach , which today is dammed up to two ponds , flows north past . About 300 m east of the desert, the state road L 3067 runs from Schwalmstadt to Zimmerrode , 200 m further east is the Marburg - Wabern - Kassel line of the Main-Weser Railway and between the two the Schwalm, into which the Goldbach joins after crossing the L 3067 .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document as "Geroldeshusen" in an income directory of the St. Petri-Stift zu Fritzlar from the year 1209. In the following centuries the place name appears in variously changing forms, which means that the name is assigned to this or other places similar name difficult today; already Georg Landau wrote in 1858: It is very difficult from the waldeck. Hofe Gershausen in the documents. Variations of the place name appearing in documents and written records were: "Gershausen" (1253), "Gerrettichusen" (1294), "Gerhartshusin" (1320), "Geroldishusin" (1359), "Gertzhusen" (1445), "Geroltshusen" ( 1467), "Geroltßhußen" (1471), "Gerorltshusen" (1479), "Gertzhusen" (1484), "Geroltzhusen" (1489), "Gertzhußen" (1490), "Gyrßhusenn" (1493), "Gurßhausen" (1500 ), "Gertzhusen" (1501), "Gerßhusen" (1504), "Gortzhusen" (1512), "Geroldeshaußen" (1517), "Gertzhawßen" (1523), "Gerßhußen" (1530), "Gertzhausen" (1569) , "Geroltshusenn" (1574), "Geroldeßhaußen" (1578), "Geroltzhausen" (1623), "Gertzhaußen" (1629), "Gershausen" (1656) and "Görtzhaußen" (1731). In many cases it is unclear whether they refer to this place. In fact, several incidents in the Historical Ortlexikon Hessen on-line related to the Gerzhausen treated here relate without a doubt to the Waldeck town of Gershausen (today Gershäuser Hof) south of Braunau in the Kellerwald , about 7 km south of Bad Wildungen , others to Herzhausen near Schwalmstadt or on Gershausen near Naumburg (see note below).

Thus, only a few recorded events can be clearly assigned to Gerzhausen. When the Waltersbrück court was divided in 1359, “Geroldishusen” came to the Lords of Löwenstein-Schweinsberg , together with Bischhausen , Schlierbach, Ahausen , Glimmerode and Dorheim ; the gentlemen of Gilsa received the places Zimmerrode and Gilsa and their estate at Gerzhausen was released from the Löwenstein jurisdiction and from services for the benefit of those of Gilsa. The von Gilsa were enfeoffed from at least 1445 to 1725 by the Fritzlarer St. Petri-Stift with a tithe to Gerzhausen. In 1493, the von Löwenstein-Westerburg enfeoffed the Henne tavern and comrades with, among other things, their part of the tithe in Gerzhausen. On January 16, 1582, Johann von Löwenstein-Schweinsberg and his wife Margarethe prescribed ten thalers a year from Weybach, Waltersbrück and Gerzhausen for the sum of 200 thalers they had loaned to Eitel von Berlepsch , captain of the Ziegenhain water fortress . On November 30, 1644, the village and court came to Waltersbrück (with Schlierbach, Bischhausen, Dorheim and the Gerzhausen desert) as a gift from the Landgrave widow and regent Amalie Elisabeth von Hessen-Kassel to the Privy Councilor and Court Marshal Jakob von Hoff († 1671). This property remained in his family until it died out in the male line in 1734, when the landgrave Prince George took care of him. With his death in 1755 it fell back to Hessen-Kassel as a settled fiefdom .

annotation

Much of what is assigned to Gerzhausen in the on-line historical local lexicon Hessen at LAGIS relates in all probability to Gershausen (today Gershäuser Hof) south of Braunau am Gersbach. The Lords of Löwenstein, who lived at their Löwenstein Castle just under 5 km to the south-east , had property and income lent to them in Gershausen by the Counts of Waldeck , probably because they were feudal men of the Counts there. For example, it is known that Löw von Löwenstein received castle money from the Counts of Waldeck in 1320 for “Gerhartshusin” and that the von Löwenstein in 1506 received the previous Waldecker bullet for “Gerßhußen”. What is certain is that the place was desolate in 1530, when the hat to "Gerßhußen" was divided after a dispute between Waldeck and those of Löwenstein. In 1580 Johann von Löwenstein sold his last property in Gershausen to Waldeck.

The donation made in 1253 by Count Berthold von Felsberg of all his own property and fiefs , including three Hufen in Gershausen, which probably came from the dowry of his wife Bertha von Naumburg , to the Breitenau monastery is erroneously classified here at LAGIS but instead on Gershausen near Naumburg.

After all, the purchase of a Löwenstein estate in Gershausen by Hans von Lüder in 1502 does not belong here, which is based on a reading or typing error, but rather belongs to the deserted area of ​​Herzhausen near Ziegenhain , a village that Landgrave Wilhelm III took him to in 1490 . had enfeoffed in 1490 and where the von Lüder had already been enfeoffed with property by Count Johann I. von Ziegenhain in 1424 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The level map of the Electorate of Hesse from 1840–1861 shows the field name "Gerzhausen" between the Goldbach in the south and the Gebelsborn in the north . ( Electorate of Hesse 1840-1861 - 30. Fritzlar, in: Historical maps )
  2. ↑ Landau: Wüstungen, p. 140.
  3. ↑ HStAM Fund Document 49 No 2894
  4. ^ Wilhelm Bach: Historical news of the courts and the parish Jesberg in the Electorate of Hesse. Kassel, 1828, p. 52
  5. ↑ HStAM Fund, Document 16, No. 16
  6. ↑ Landgrave Regesten online No. 7807
  7. ↑ Herzhausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

literature

  • Georg Landau : Historical-topographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse and in the grand-ducal Hessian parts of Hessengaue, Oberlahngaue and Ittergaue (= journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Supplement 7, ZDB -ID 200295-4 ). Theodor Fischer, Kassel 1858, p. 140 .
  • Waldemar Küther (edit.): Historical local dictionary Fritzlar-Homberg. Elwert, Marburg, 1980, ISBN 3-7708-0679-4 , p. 100

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