Krutzen (desert)

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Krutzen was a place near Frankfurt am Main , about seven kilometers northwest of the village of Kalbach , which probably went under in the first half of the 16th century and became a desert . The settlement was at an altitude of 129  m above sea level. NHN .

Settlement history

The settlement was first mentioned in 1256, but finds from 1983 show that it had existed since the late 8th century. The homestead consisted of a house and pit houses as well as the Crutzenkirche . In the 9th / 10th In the 19th century it became a settlement. The expansion of the church with a well chapel took place in the 12th century, which was abandoned in the 13th century. In the first half of the 16th century the church and the place were abandoned, only the cemetery was still used.

possession

In 1310 the abbot Heinrich V von Fulda enfeoffed Siegfried von Eppstein with the monastery courtyard in Kalbach, with four courtyards there, called the Kargengut, and with the right of patronage over the church in Krutzen.

church

From 1256 there is evidence of a church that was raised to a parish from 1310. For parish half belonged from Kalbach, the deserted village Niederstedten and white churches.

Historical forms of names

  • Crucifying (1256)
  • Crutzen (1257)
  • Cruze (1250-60)
  • Cruzen (1310)

literature

  • Kleinfeldt: Church Organization, pp. 67–68
  • Schäfer: Herren von Eppstein, p. 415 with note 298
  • Dohrn-Ihmig: Krutzen

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Krutzen (desert), City of Frankfurt am Main. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '  N , 8 ° 38'  E