Heratskirch

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Heratskirch
City of Bad Saulgau
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 674 m above sea level NN
Residents : 100

Heratskirch is a suburb of the city of Bad Saulgau in Upper Swabia , which belongs to the village of Bolstern .

geography

Geographical location

The place lies between forests, on the European main watershed between the Danube and the Rhine , and on the slope of the Michelsbühl hill .

history

Heratskirch, written in old scripts Eratskirch or Erartskirch , probably means something like Erhardskirch . It was first mentioned in a document in the 11th century.

On January 4th, 1083 the nobles Hezelo and Hesso founded a monastery in Eratskirch in honor of St. George, of which they owned relics. At the same time, Hezelo hands over the village of Wald (Königseggwald) under the protection of Count Mangold von Alshausen , so that he may place the monastery in it under the apostolic chair. Hezelo planned to build the monastery in Upper Swabia, but the Hirsau abbot Wilhelm (1069-1091) insisted that the foundation be relocated in order to largely withdraw the new monastery from secular influence. Finally they agreed on a place in the Black Forest as a place for the foundation of the monastery: Kloster Sankt Georgen in the Black Forest .

The Sießen monastery was the landlord of Heratskirch, the sovereignty was always Friedbergisch . In 1373, Beli and Walther von Königsegg sold the Heratskirch estate with Zwing and Bännen, court, bailiwick, kilch and kilch set to the Sießen monastery for 600 lb. By the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 the monastery Sießen was secularized and the manorial rule over Heratskirch fell to the princely House of Taxis . In 1816 Heratskirch, previously a branch of the Sießen monastery, came to Bolstern as a suburb. Today Heratskirch has between 90 and 100 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The small Romanesque chapel in Heratskirch is dedicated to St. James . It is located on a feeder road to the Camino de Santiago . Its interior houses three late Gothic wooden sculptures from the workshop of Michel Erhart, created around 1500 in Ulm: Madonna and Child as well as the Saints James and Wendelinus. It was incorporated into the Sießen monastery in 1447 and parish to Sießen until 1816 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Josef Mone, magazine for the history of the Upper Rhine. IX (1858), page 196 ff. [1]
  2. ↑ Bolstern . In: Hans Willbold: City of Saulgau - A small guide. A guide through the city of Saulgau and its history . ed. from City of Saulgau, Gebr. Edel, Saulgau July 1998, p. 98f. here p. 99