Gosselndorf

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Gosselndorf is a desert near Bad Hersfeld in the north Hessian district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg . The ruins of the church tower, on a meadow at the edge of the forest south of the A 4 motorway between Bad Hersfeld and Friedewald , can be seen clearly from the motorway.

Geographical location

The desert is located about 7.7 km east-northeast of Bad Hersfeld, 3.3 km northeast of Kathus and 3.3 km west of Friedewald in the district of Kathus. The former settlement was west of the Hahnebalz mountain at 297  m above sea level. NHN Höhe in the so-called "Geusensdorf Graben", the valley of a small stream that flows into the Breitzbach not far north of the motorway . The Altstrasse once ran through the short Hesse region nearby .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1312. According to a source from the year 1312, Goszilndorf, which belonged to the Benedictine Provosty Petersberg , a subsidiary of the imperial abbey of Hersfeld , only about 5.5 km away and in whose bailiwick of Solz (e), was not long ago, was now inhabited no more. The climate change that caused bad harvests in the early 14th century was probably the reason for the abandonment of the place. In the same century, however, the place was repopulated, and in 1363 the church in the place was consecrated . 1386 the church received from the Bishop of Wurzburg the funeral rights .

It is not known when the place was left. In the Forstsalbuch of the Landgrave Hessian Office Friedewald in 1561 only the ruins of the "Geussendorf Kirch" are mentioned, and the place was probably already deserted for a long time. The Friedewalder Salbuch from 1579 reported that next to the Krumbacher auw underm sand mountains by the water, the Breizbach, is located the deserted Guessendorf .

In 1716 farmers wanted to try to settle on the site, but this request was rejected because of the endangerment of game.

Today only the well-preserved stump of the former church tower of the so-called Gißlingskirche remains .

In the course of the work begun in 2006 to widen and improve the line of the A4 motorway (the motorway moved approx. 21 m closer to the ruins), numerous pottery fragments from the time before the Renaissance were found during excavations , but not the hoped-for monuments and wall remains.

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 4 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 49"  E

Footnotes

  1. ^ Georg Landau: Historical-topographical description of the desolate places in the Electorate of Hesse ... Fischer, Kassel, 1858, p. 342
  2. ↑ Over the centuries the place name appeared in alternating forms: 1312 Gozilndorf, Goszilndorf, Gosselndorff (HStAM inventory K No. 260, f. 11, 15v.), 1313 Gozilndorf, 1363 Gozzzelnorff (HStAM Urk. 57 No. 178), 1370 Gosselndorf (document archive Petersberg), 1386 Goszeldorf (HStAM inventory document 56 no. 610), 1539 Goesseldorff (HStAM inventory document 56 no.1480), 1561 Geussendorf Kirch (forest salary book of the Friedewald district), 1579 Guessendorf, Giessendorf (Friedewalder Salbuch) , 1636 Gösslerskirche (secret council files, clearings), 1705–1710 Güssendorf's desert (Schleenstein map), 1716 Giesselsdorf (Kassel secret council files Giesselsdorf).
  3. ↑ The Vogtei was named after the Fulda tributary Solz .
  4. ^ Gißlingskirche, at Museum Friedewald
  5. ^ Gißlingskirche, at Museum Friedewald
  6. ↑ The church ruins were called Gösslerskirche in 1636 and on more recent maps Giesslingskirche or Gießlingskirche.
  7. ↑ Gießlingskirche remains mysterious (Hersfelder Zeitung, October 31, 2010)

literature

  • Klaus Sippel: The foundry church near Friedewald, district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg: Guide sheet to the deserted Gosselndorf and other medieval village places in the western Seulingswald. (Hessen Archeology, Archaeological Monuments in Hessen, Issue 46), Wiesbaden, 1985, ISBN 3-89822-046-X
  • Ellen Kemp: Cultural monuments in Hesse: District Hersfeld-Rotenburg II, Ludwigsau to Wildeck. 1997, p. 535
  • Thomas Wiegand: Cultural monuments in Hesse: District Hersfeld-Rotenburg III, City of Bad Hersfeld. 1999, p. 392

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