Kaltenhof (Schonungen)

Kaltenhof Community Schonungen Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 33 ″  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	306 m
Postal code :	97453, 97526
Area code :	09721, 09727, 09526
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The Kaltenhof is a courtyard in the Schonungen district and part of the municipality of the same name in the Schweinfurt district in Lower Franconia . The farm is located 5 km northeast of the city center of Schweinfurt .

Geographical location

Mainberg village and castle with the river Main and vineyards. Above left the Kaltenhof, right in the back Schonungen

The Kaltenhof is 100 m above the Main , within sight of Schweinfurt, on a mountain spur and southern foothills of the Schweinfurt Rhön . This hill is bordered in the south by the steep valley of the Main and in the west by the deeply cut valley of the Meerbach , in which the Schonungen district of Mainberg is located. In the east the hill is bounded by the Steinach valley with the main town of Schonungen and in the northeast by the Hausener Mühlbach with the Schonungen district of Hausen . In the north, the mountain spur runs into the Schweinfurt Rhön, which is largely uninhabited here, initially covered by fields and then by large forests.

Mainberg Castle is located 500 m southwest of the Kaltenhof. Even closer to the south, on the steep slope to the Main, the corridors of the Kaltenhof are bounded by the Mainberger Schlossberg vineyard .

history

The place name Kaltenhof probably refers to the lack of heating options on the mountain above Schonungen or to the cooler micro-location 100 m above the Main. The place was first mentioned in a document around the year 1380. At that time, the farm was subject to interest payments to the Benedictine monastery Theres near Haßfurt . A hundred years later, the Kaltenhof appeared as an economic property of Mainberg Castle. The rebels destroyed the farm in 1525 during the German Peasants' War. A short time later the farm was rebuilt and handed over to a tenant.

In 1685 the Würzburg prince-bishop Johann Gottfried von Guttenberg sold the farm to various farmers. A total of eight farmers in the area were still working the farm in the 19th century. From 1828, the manufacturer Wilhelm Sattler acquired the buildings piece by piece. His successor was the industrialist Ernst Sachs , who bought the farm in 1925. The past as an estate was revived in 1952 by the Münsterschwarzach monastery .

Todays use

The Münsterschwarzach Abbey sold the Kaltenhof in 1995 to an association for mentally ill people. Kaltenhof gGmbH has existed as a non-profit company since 2006. It offers social therapeutic jobs in the field of household liquidations and second-hand goods markets.

literature

• Karl-Heinz Hennig: District of Schweinfurt. Northwestern part: art, culture and history. From the Haßberge to the Franconian wine country . Schweinfurt 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hennig, Karl-Heinz: District of Schweinfurt . P. 107.
2. ↑ Homepage Kaltenhof-Levi