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Groschlag (also: Grasloch ) is a deserted village , formerly near, today on the district of Hochstadt , a district of Maintal in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

Detail of the map of the Wetterau by Matthäus Merian with the town of Groschlag.

location

Groschlag was southwest of Hochstadt at an altitude of 110 m above sea ​​level on the edge of the Kochberg (field name: To the Storkissneste ).

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of the place comes from the year 1359. The village belonged as an allodial property to the rule and later county of Hanau , from 1458: Hanau-Münzenberg . The village assigned these to their office in Büchertal .

In 1393 the Haina Monastery in Groschlag owned a farm . The Patershausen Monastery and the Liebfrauenstift in Frankfurt am Main also owned land here. The largest agricultural property, however, the Dinghof, with which the village jurisdiction was connected, belonged to the St. Gallen monastery , then the diocese of Constance . The Knights of Kronberg held this court as a fief in the 14th century and it passed to the Counts of Solms-Rödelheim by marriage at the beginning of the 16th century . The associated lands were given to farmers. Ecclesiastically, Groschlag belonged to Hochstadt.

Historical forms of names

  • Grasloch (1359)
  • Grasloc (around 1360)
  • Graeslog (1364)
  • Groslach (1578)

Early modern age

Up to 37 families lived in the village in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1568 the village was incorporated into Hochstadt. In 1598, 34 families were still living here. But then the village was left very quickly by most of its residents, who moved to Hochstadt and continued to cultivate the fields from there. This cannot have been due to the Thirty Years War , whose early phase did not yet affect the County of Hanau. In 1615, after the last resident died, the last house was also torn down. The Groschlager court continued to meet for its annual session. It was not until 1847 that the Dinghof - which no longer existed in reality - was formally dissolved.

When Hochstadt was expanded to include new building areas after the Second World War , the basement foundations of the Groschlag buildings are said to have been uncovered.

Others

It has not been proven whether the Franconian noble family of the Groschlag zu Dieburg derives its name from this place.

literature

  • Erhard Bus: The time of devastation. The west of the county of Hanau-Munzenberg after the Battle of Nördlingen, 1634–1648. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter . Vol. 45). Hanau History Association 1844, Hanau 2011, ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 , pp. 197–226.
  • Regenerus Engelhard: Description of the earth of the Hessian Lands Casselischen Antheiles with notes from history and from documents explained. Part 2, which contains Upper Hesse and the other princely lands. Verlag des Waysenshauses, Cassel 1778, p. 763 .
  • 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. Supplement 7, ZDB -ID 200295-4 ). Fischer, Kassel 1858, p. 377 , (reprint. Edited by Dieter Carl. Historical Edition Carl, Vellmar 1999).
  • Wilhelm Mankel: The Dinghof and court to Groschlag. From the Chronicle of Hochstadt. sn, Hochstadt 1949.
  • NN: A village disappeared from the ground. In: Hanau. Urban and countryside. A home book for school and home. Hanau History Association, Hanau 1954, 353 ff.
  • Heinrich Reimer : Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Vol. 14, ISSN  0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 181.
  • Ernst J. Zimmermann : Hanau, city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian-Wetterauischen city and former. County. With special consideration of the older time. Increased circulation. Self-published, Hanau 1919, p. 38 (Unchanged reprint. Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Prince - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900–1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 196 -230 (204).
  2. ↑ Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1968 (= Kurhessisch-Waldeckisches Pfarrerbuch. Vol. 2 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 33, 2, 1). Volume 1. Adapted from Lorenz Kohlenbusch. Elwert, Marburg 1984, ISBN 3-7708-0789-8 , p. 145.
  3. ↑ Bus: The Time of Desolation. 2011, p. 212, lists the contradicting voices in the literature on whether the place was destroyed by the Thirty Years War or before.
  4. ↑ NN: A village disappeared from the ground. 1954, p. 355.


Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 58 "  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 42.8"  E