Holzkirchen (Balhorn)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 4 "  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 31"  E

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Holzkirchen was a village settlement in today's district of Balhorn , in the municipality of Bad Emstal in northern Hesse Kassel district . It was first mentioned in a document in 1081 and was already desolate by 1334 at the latest .

Geographical location

The place was about 1.5 kilometers north-northwest of Balhorn at an altitude of 341  m in the hallway "Holzkirchen" ( dialect "Holzkerchen"). In the immediate vicinity is the "Holzkirchenborn" on Wolfhager Weg, a spring that is now contained , from which a water pipe runs to the cemetery on the northwestern outskirts of Balhorn. The federal highway 450 from Fritzlar in the south to Wolfhagen in the north runs around 600 meters east of the desert.

history

Pottery finds from the 13th to 15th centuries were unearthed in the area of ​​the desert , and earthworks in the early 20th century found a number of human remains near the source , apparently from the church cemetery of the abandoned village.

The place was first mentioned in a Mainz document in 1081 , according to which Archbishop Siegfried I confirmed the possession of the goods donated to the monastery of Godebold and Erkinbert in the "vicus" "Holzchirgon" to the Hasungen Monastery, founded in 1074 . In February 1240, the place was mentioned again in a document from the Hasungen monastery, when the pleban Heinrich von "Holtkirken" was one of the witnesses of an exchange of goods between the churches of Todenhausen ("Dudenhusen") and Schützeberg ("Scuteberc"). The tithe from Holzkirchen was due to the St. Petri-Stift in Fritzlar .

The place was at least from 1235, when a pleban in "Holzkerchen" / "Holzkerken" is mentioned in the witness list of a goods purchase of the monastery Haina , Kirchdorf . 1319 Pastor Walt helmet was of "Holzkircheyn" witness a freight sale of the monastery Merxhausen to the monastery Ahnaberg , and even to 1350 pastors mentioned in Holzkirchen. The church patronage lay with the abbot von Hasungen, and several places in the area were parished under wooden churches.

The village was described as desolate as early as 1334 when Landgrave Heinrich II exchanged his slopes in "Holczkirchin" and the deserts Herbshausen , Bründersen , Ober- Nothfelden and Hildegersen to the Hasungen monastery. The local church existed for longer, but was threatened with collapse in 1345. This year Degenhard is named as the pleban of "Holczkirchin", who had the bells of the church restored; also in 1350 he (Deynhardus) is mentioned as a pastor there. In 1367, Balhorn appears for the first time, where a church and a cemetery were named as early as 1342, as the seat of a parish, which means that the parish was moved from Holzkirchen to Balhorn at this time.

The field mark of the deserted village remained in place for more than 500 years. In 1515, when the place last appeared in a document, nine people paid the Hasungen monastery valid for goods in the district. It was not incorporated into the Balhorn district until the second half of the 19th century, as was parts of the Gershausen , Simmenhausen and Schwalgenhausen districts .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The certificate is, however, a forgery made around 1100. (Manfred Stimming (edit): Mainzer Urkundenbuch, Volume 1: The documents up to the death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137) , Historischer Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt, 1932, pp. 253-258, no. 358).
  2. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg: HStAM Fonds Urk. 27 No. 21st
  3. ↑ Landau: Wüstungen, p. 172.
  4. ↑ Landau: Wüstungen, p. 172.
  5. ↑ Landau: Wüstungen, p. 172.

literature

  • 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 and Regional Studies. Supplement 7, ZDB -ID 200295-4 ). Theodor Fischer, Kassel 1858, p. 172 .
  • Heinrich Reimer (Hrsg.): Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (publications of the historical commission for Hessen). Elwert, Marburg, 1974, p. 247.

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