Hayn (Züschen)

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Former church of the village desert Hayn on the Johanneskirchenkopf, excavated foundation walls of the rectangular choir

Hayn or also Hain and earlier the Heyne is a deserted village near Fritzlar in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

geography

It is located at an altitude of 325  m almost on the summit of the Johanneskirchenkopf , a 332 high mountain at the southern end of the Old Forest (natural area 340.14), northwest of Fritzlar, northwest of the Geismar district , northeast of the Edertal district of Wellen and southwest of the Fritzlar district of Züschen , in the district of Züschen.

history

The village ("Villa Hayn prope Geismar"), documented in 1332 and 1378, can still be found in the interest registers of St. Petri-Stift in Fritzlar in 1390 and 1420 , but was expressly declared as a desertification "Heyne" in 1433 “Heynberg” is the name given when the Lords of Meysenbug , who were resident in Züschen, owned the place, which was part of the Waldeck Office of Wildungen , as a fiefdom of the Counts of Waldeck . Investigations showed that the settlement was inhabited from the late 12th to the early 15th century. Then the fields from Züschen, Geismar and Riede were tilled.

Evidence of a settlement in the 8th century was not found, which refutes the assumption that it was the settlement of Hagini or Hagene, founded by Franks near a watchtower in the upper Edertal around 800 and later fallen desolate. This is probably the village of Haine , which was resettled in the 16th century , part of the municipality of Allendorf in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hesse .

Excavations

During archaeological excavations in 1905, the foundations of several buildings were exposed, including that of the Hainskirche, which was 6.50 × 5.90 m in size and was mentioned in 1564 and is now called St. John's Church. They are made of red sandstone , about 90 cm thick and up to about 1.60 m high. Window approaches are missing. Also excavated and visible today in the midst of the dense oak population are the remains of house walls, a well enclosure and the silted up remains of the village pond . The bones found in 1905 were reburied on site; a tombstone marks the spot.

Donareiche

The place is occasionally mentioned as a possible location for the Danube oak . According to this hypothesis, the predecessor chapel of St. John's Church is said to have been built from the wood of the Donar oak. Archaeological evidence of the location of the oak is not known.

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 53 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 29 ″  E

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Theodorich von Hain, mentioned in a document in 1270, who sold goods in Berningshausen with his wife and children ( Georg Landau : Historical-topographical description of the desert towns in the Electorate of Hesse . Fischer, Kassel, 1858, pp. 153-154 ), is probably not Hayn at Geismar, but the deserted Hain (Hegene) at Maden .
  2. ↑ http://www.naturfreunde-bad-emstal.de/daten/ecopfad/Kulturweg.pdf
  3. ^ Harzklub Zweigverein Hayn: Photos of the tombstone and the remains of the church, a house, the fountain and the pond

literature

  • V. Brendow &. J. Kulick: The Johanneskirche near Züschen. Leaflet to the desert on the Johanneskirchenkopf near Züschen, City of Fritzlar, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis. (Archaeological Monuments in Hessen, Issue 23) State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden, 1982, ISBN 3-89822-023-0
  • Erika Eckhardt: Mythical place and historical riddle: The Hayn desert on the Johanneskirchenkopf near Geismar. In: Yearbook Schwalm-Eder-Kreis 2002, pp. 180–181
  • Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten. Bernecker, Melsungen, 1972, p. 160

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