Kühngasse (Dettelbach)

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The Kühn alley is a historical urban center of the Lower Franconian town Dettelbach in Kitzingen . The suburb was formed shortly after the city was raised in 1484 and disappeared in the course of the destruction of the Thirty Years' War. The Kühngassenmühle was located in Kühngasse .

Geographical location

Kühngasse is located north of Dettelbach's old town and is largely built over today, with the old course of the street still recognizable today. The street is located outside the Dettelbach city fortifications; the Brücker Tor was located southwest of the old suburb . Today Kühngasse is surrounded by new building areas, further to the north are the single and multi-family houses in Bergstrasse and Mozartstrasse. The Dettelbach-Stadt train station stood further to the west . The Bibergauer Mühlbach flows on the edge of the former suburb.

The area of ​​the former suburb is now occupied by the new Kühngasse. It was built in the middle of the 19th century and has eight house numbers , most of which are outside the area of ​​the old suburb.

history

Dettelbach was raised to the status of town in 1484 by the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Rudolf II von Scherenberg . At the same time, the place received its own market rights and, in addition to the legal advantages, was also able to rise economically. The upgrading also led to an increase in the population, which settled in the north of the old town on the Bibergauer Mühlbach due to the still unclear extent of the urban area. Soon after the town was raised, Dettelbach was surrounded by a fortification that did not include the new residents in the north.

The suburb was first described in a document in 1591. At that time were in the "suburbs, the Kühn alleys called" about 20 hearths . The origin of the name of the suburb is unclear. All residents of Kühngasse were legally treated in the same way as the citizens of the city. In the meantime, the suburb had probably also been included in the city fortifications as a kind of Vorwerk , so that the residents now benefited somewhat from the protection of the city wall.

In the Kühngasse was the so-called Kühngassenmühle or Vorstadtmühle, which was one of the twelve town mills of Dettelbach. It was arguably the only building that survived the suburb's decline. Kühngasse did not appear in a Salbuch from 1638. The suburb was probably demolished in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War . The residents, who were among the city citizens, had probably moved to the old town of Dettelbach.

At the end of the 19th century, the old city grew out of its limits and the old suburb area began to be repopulated. Mainly larger farmsteads were built there, which had no place in the medieval city. During the work, underground remains of the previous buildings were uncovered. In 1900 the Dettelbach-Stadt train station was built on the edge of Kühngasse and was in operation until 1960.

Kühngassenmühle

The Kühngassenmühle (also Vorstadtmühle, Strobelsmühle or Dienenmühle) stood in the suburbs. It was one of the so-called twelve grain mills around Dettelbach and was first mentioned in a document in 1591, although it was not yet mentioned by name at that time. At that time there was only talk of four mills "against Bibergau ", that is, on the Bibergauer Mühlbach. The Kühngassenmühle was mentioned by name in 1638. The facility was destroyed a little later in the Thirty Years' War.

Unlike the surrounding suburbs, the mill was rebuilt after the war. Around 1700, the then owner Hans Georg Benninger got into a dispute with the neighbors, about the outcome of which the sources are silent. In 1777 the mill was mentioned as a service mill. The mill was only given up in the 1970s by the last miller, Strobel, and the mill was demolished.

literature

  • Hans Bauer: Dettelbach. History of a romantic city on the Main and its districts . Dettelbach 1983.
  • Anton Eberle: The twelve mills in Dettelbach . In: In the Bannkreis des Schwanbergs 1966. Heimat-Jahrbuch from the Kitzingen district . Kitzingen 1966. pp. 118-128.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bauer, Hans: Dettelbach . P. 194.
  2. ↑ Eberle, Anton: The twelve mills in Dettelbach . P. 124.
  3. ^ Bauer, Hans: Dettelbach . P. 149.

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 12.5 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 30.4 ″  E