Ilmenau (Geiselwind)

Ilmenau Geiselwind market Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	419 m
Residents :	61
Incorporation :	January 1, 1978
Postal code :	96160
Area code :	09556
Location of Ilmenau (bold) in the Geiselwinder municipality

Ilmenau is a district of the Geiselwind market in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

The village is located in the north of the Geiselwinder municipality in a high trough between the forests of the Steigerwald . The district of Bamberg begins to the northeast, and a wooded exclave of the municipality of Burgwindheim lies in the north . The southeast is taken by Burggrub , Neugrub is in the south. Füttersee connects further to the west . In the West, the district of encounters Ebracher hamlet Großbirkach of Ilmenau.

Closest, larger cities are Kitzingen, 25 kilometers away, and Bamberg , 28 kilometers away.

Ilmenau is located in the middle of the Steigerwald nature park, parts of the forest are also a protected landscape area . An old oak has been declared a natural monument since 1984 . It is located south of Ilmenau and shapes the landscape in the area around the village.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1298. At that time it was called "Ilmenawe", which could be a reference to a former elm stand . Count Heinrich II zu Castell gave the Cistercian monastery Ebrach several rights to the village. Around the year 1300 Ilmenau was still part of the Grafschaft Castell , later the monks of the monastery received rule over the village.

At the beginning of the 16th century the place was deserted and was called "Ilmenawe, villa desolata est" (Latin: "Ilmenau, is an abandoned village"), the reasons are unclear. In 1557, however, there were again seven fiefdoms in Ilmenau. Between 1600 and 1628 there was a trial between Hans Sigmund von Crailsheim and the Hochstift Würzburg . The Ilmenau desert was also mentioned . The village was still desolate in the middle of the 17th century.

Resettlement began only after the Thirty Years' War . In 1978 Ilmenau came to the newly formed large community Geiselwind.

Culture and sights

The Catholic branch church is consecrated to St. Laurentius. It was built in the 18th century after a previous building was demolished. A tower with a hexagonal roof turret and the slate-covered dome are the outstanding architectural elements of the church. A large shell limestone cross from the 19th century was set into the cemetery wall.

→ List of architectural monuments in Ilmenau

Parish fair is celebrated on the weekend of the first Sunday in August .

literature

• Hans Bauer: District of Kitzingen. An art and culture guide . Market wide 1993
• Roderich Machann: Desolations in the Steigerwald (= Mainfränkische Studien Vol. 5). Diss . Wuerzburg 1972

Web links

Commons : Ilmenau (Geiselwind)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ilmenau on the municipality website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Machann, Roderich: Wüstungen im Steigerwald , p. 126
2. ^ Bauer, Hans: District of Kitzingen . P. 87