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Helmbund is an abandoned settlement near Neuenstadt am Kocher in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The place was first mentioned in 797 and is considered the mother settlement of Neuenstadt am Kocher. After the new town was established, Helmbund was given up in the 14th century. Today only the ruins of the Helmbundkirche remind of the former settlement.
location
The ruin is situated on the southern precincts border of New City between two branches of Clever Sulzbacher road just above the left bank of the Brettach to about 170 m above sea level. NN in the lower triangle of the mouth of its Limbach tributary . Sports fields are connected to the north and west.
history
Helmbund was first mentioned in a document in 797 in the Lorsch Codex on the occasion of the donation of a court horse from Milo in Helmanabiunde to the Lorsch Monastery . The place was on the left bank of a large loop of the Brettach on a branch road of the trade route from Worms to Regensburg . The place name means manor of the Helmana . 1193 confirmed Emperor Heinrich VI. Rights and property of the Lorsch monastery in Helmbund. Later the lords of Dürn , the taverns of Limpurg and the lords of Weinsberg had the place as an imperial fief . Feudal people of the Weinsberger called themselves von Helmbund and are proven to have owned the place until 1354, elsewhere until 1466.
In 1325 the new town of Neuenstadt am Kocher was first mentioned , which was originally also known as the Helmbund the new town and in favor of which the old settlement was abandoned. The church consecrated to St. Kilian in the old settlement of Helmbund was subordinate to the Schöntal Monastery from the late 13th century , remained the parish church of the new town until 1481 and was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The surrounding churchyard was the burial place for Neuenstadt and Cleversulzbach until 1636 . Various regional nobles were buried in the church's crypt until the 18th century.
literature
- Helmut Schmolz : Thoughts on the early history of the village of Helmbund and the new town called Helmbund . In: Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian History . Volume 34. Heilbronn Historical Society, Heilbronn 2001. pp. 137–146
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3537, May 17, 797 - Reg. 2581. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 210 , accessed on April 8, 2016 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 51.6 ″ N , 9 ° 20 ′ 33.9 ″ E