Holnstein (desert)

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Holnstein is the name of an abandoned probably in the late 14th or early 15th century settlement in today's district of Raboldshausen , in the municipality of Neuenstein in Hersfeld-Rotenburg , Hesse .

location

The desert is located around 1.7 km southeast of Raboldshausen on the southern slope of the Holnsteinkopf in the unusually high position of around 510  m above sea level. NHN . The place extended along a creek flowing southeast to the Erzebach on the "Long Meadow", a 400 m long and 30-40 m wide clearing that accompanies the creek from its source on both sides. In the forest a little east of the former location - immediately to the north next to a forest management path that crosses the "Lange Wiese" and that comes up to the west from Eisenbergstrasse (Kreisstrasse 34) between Raboldshausen and Willingshain - are the foundations of a chapel, which were excavated in 1936 and re-mortared in 1999 , the so-called Holstein Chapel ( ⊙ ), which probably dates from the 10./11. Century.

history

So far, only one documented mention of the place is known: it relates to the year 1368, when the place changed its owners through sale - although the direction of the sale is not entirely clear. According to Georg Landau , the brothers Ludwig and Werner I von Wallenstein , sons of the late Simon I von Wallenstein, sold their share in the villages of Neuenhain , Grebenhagen , Saasen , Holnstein and Babenhausen to the brothers Heinrich, Simon and Fritz von Schlitz called von Steinau. The Hesse State Historical Information System (LAGIS Hessen), on the other hand, depicts this change of ownership in the Hesse Historical Local Dictionary in the opposite direction. The settlement, which was founded in the 11th century, was probably abandoned soon after.

Current condition

In the area of ​​the “Long Meadow”, ceramic shards, cultivated terraces that can still be seen today, as well as kiln hills (remnants of medieval racing kilns ) testify to the disappeared settlement. A triangular gable or door cover stone of the chapel with a carved, equal-armed cross in a recessed circular area, which was found during the excavations in 1936, is in the Municipal Museum in Bad Hersfeld .

About 150 m southwest of the remains of the chapel is an atonement cross that was discovered in the ground during road construction work in the early 1930s and has been re-erected at this point . It dates from the late Middle Ages and has nothing to do with the abandoned village of Holnstein.

Also in the area of ​​the “Long Meadow”, between the chapel ruins and the atonement cross, there is a Neolithic barrow from around 1500 BC. Chr.

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 3 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 23 ″  E

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Simon von Wallenstein owned the castle Neuwallenstein half, Friedrich von gen slot. Steinau (and Frederick Herzberg son of Berthold of Lißberg , the 1344 through marriage with Mechthild / massacre of Romrod and following inheritance and Landgrave's investiture owner of the castle fief of the castle Herzberg had become) each owned a quarter. (Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners, Volume 2, Luckhard, Kassel, 1833, p. 384 )
  2. ↑ Raboldshausen is probably meant.
  3. ↑ Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners, Volume 2, Luckhard, Kassel, 1833, p. 388
  4. ^ Holnstein (desert), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ http://www.kreuzstein.eu/html/body_raboldshausen.html
  6. ↑ http://www.kreuzstein.eu/html/body_raboldshausen.html

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