Glass houses

Glashausen is a desert east of Oberstenfeld in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg . The place possibly originated in the high Middle Ages from a glassworks of the Oberstenfeld Abbey and had been removed by the 15th century.

history

Glashausen was first mentioned among the possessions of the Oberstenfeld Monastery in a document from Pope Innocent IV on December 11, 1247. According to historical sources, the place was in the Kurzach valley between Gronau, now part of Oberstenfeld, and the hamlet of Kurzach, part of Spiegelberg . The place is mentioned in several documents, with the documents of the 15th century showing that the place had already been lost at that time. In 1568 a well is mentioned, which is probably related to the abandoned settlement. Later Glashausen only appears as a field name, in 1677 as Claußhausen , after 1685 the place is no longer mentioned.

Based on temporal and spatial connections, one concludes that the settlement could have emerged from a high medieval glassworks of the Oberstenfeld Abbey. Glass may have been needed for the construction of the monastery church in Oberstenfeld as well as for the Mariental monastery and the medieval manor of the margraves of Baden in Steinheim an der Murr . However, there is no evidence of glass production in glass houses. Other sources see the place with the field name Clausshausen mentioned in 1677 more in connection with the name Claus, which is often found in Oberstenfeld .

literature

• Hans Kozlik: The deserted Glashausen near Oberstenfeld . In: History sheets from the Bottwartal . No. 8 , 1999.