Owl mill

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Owl mill
Giebelstadt market
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 14 "  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 11"  E
Height : 281 m above sea level NN
Residents : 6  (1987)
Postal code : 97232
Area code : 09334
Kauzenmühle (Bavaria)
Owl mill

Location of Kauzenmühle in Bavaria

The Kauzenmühle is a district of the Giebelstadt market in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg .

location

The wasteland lies on the Langwiesenbach, around 15 kilometers south of Würzburg on the corridor between the Giebelstadt districts of Ingolstadt and Sulzdorf .

history

On June 4, 1525, the last battle of the German Peasants' War in Franconia took place at the site of today's Kauzenmühle , in which the peasants were defeated by the army of the Swabian Confederation . According to Lorenz Fries , around 5000 farmers lost their lives. After the battle, 356 experienced peasants who had withdrawn to Florian Geyer 's castle were also defeated in the course of storming the castle. Then the villages of Bütthard , Sulzdorf and Giebelstadt were burned down.

On May 1, 1978 the community of Ingolstadt, to which the Kauzenmühle also belonged, was incorporated into Giebelstadt.

literature

  • Peter Blickle: The Peasants' War - The Revolution of the Common Man . Noerdlingen 2012
  • Lorenz Fries: history, names, gender, life, deeds and death of the bishops of Würzburg and dukes of Franconia. Also what happened during the government of each and every one of the same strange things . Volume 1, Würzburg 1924
  • Market Giebelstadt: Giebelstadt and districts. A cultural and historical foray . Giebelstadt 2005