Kinzdorf

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View from Hanau over the ruins of the Kinzdorf Church (in the foreground) to Steinheim (engraving by Wenzel Hollar ).
Border between the Archdiocese of Mainz and the County of Hanau, drawn due to legal disputes on the occasion of the establishment of the Neustadt Hanau in 1597. On the right below the Neustadt fortifications the Kinzdorf Church.

The Kinzdorf is a desert in today's urban area of Hanau .

Geographical location

The Kinzdorf was located south of the medieval town center of Hanau at a height of 100 m above sea ​​level and had its center approximately where the street “Im Kinzdorf” joins Westbahnhofstraße.

history

development

The Kinzdorf was probably older than Hanau, although the earliest documented mentions date from 1338, 1353 and 1364. It was a fishing village oriented towards the Main .

Hanau developed as a settlement around the castle of the Lords of Hanau . The church of “Our Lady” in Kinzdorf, first mentioned in 1322, is said to have been founded in the Middle Ages . It was the parish church for Hanau for about 200 years . The Marienkirche in the city of Hanau was initially its branch church . It was not until 1434 that Count Reinhard II transferred the parish church functions to the Marienkirche in Hanau. In the church of the Kinzdorf a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary was venerated, which is now in the Gross- Steinheimer Church of St. Johann Baptist , where it was probably sold after the Reformation .

The village was subject to the immediately neighboring settlement focus of Hanau, which - in contrast to the village - was also fenced with solid walls to protect the residents. The village fell into desolation - probably in the course of the 16th century. This was due to armed conflicts in 1504 and floods in 1564 and 1590. Only the church continued to exist as a cemetery chapel over the next turn of the century.

The church was then torn down in 1633 during the construction of the fortifications in front of the city of Hanau , the cemetery, in which the Hanau residents were also buried until 1633, was abandoned and destroyed in the Thirty Years War during the siege of Hanau.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Kinzdorf was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Kinzdorf (1338)
  • Kindisdorf (1338)
  • Kinstorf (1342)
  • Kinzesdorf (1353)
  • Kunczdorf (1434)

remains

In the 1960s, an underpass under the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line was built opposite the confluence of the “Im Kinzdorf” street with Westbahnhofstraße , and numerous bones were discovered - probably the remains of the cemetery that surrounded the Kinzdorf church. However, this did not lead to any systematic archaeological excavation .

literature

  • Georg Landau : Historical-topographical description of the desert places in the Electorate of Hesse and in the grand-ducal Hessian parts of the Hessengaue, the Oberlahngaue and the Ittergaue . Vellmar 1858.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck 14, ISSN  0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 279 (unchanged reprint. Ibid 1974, ISBN 3-7708-0509-7 ).
  • Oskar Schenk: The Kinzdorf . In: Hanau city and country. A home book for school and home. Hanau History Association, Hanau 1954, p. 348.
  • Heinz Kurz: The Kinzdorf and its church. In: 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanau History Association 1844 e. V., Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-242-4 , pp. 150-153.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau, city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian weatherwave city and former county. Increased edition. Graphische Kunstanstalt Heydt, Hanau 1919 (reprint. Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 ).

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Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 8 ° 55'  E