Lützelaue

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As Lützelaue or Lützelau (historically also Lutzelauwe , from mhd. Lützel : small, little) a strip of land on the banks of the Rhine between Winkel and Geisenheim was referred to in the Middle Ages and early modern times , which until the 17th century in the Rheingau as a place of execution and assembly ( painting ) , so for the Rheingau state parliaments, served.

location

The strip of land lies inland from today's Rhine meadows from Oestrich-Winkel , as today's B 42 marks the bank line of the Rhine before the Rhine regulation of 1839, i.e. between the B 42 and the field path that runs parallel to the B42 to the north and follows the route of the historic country road . The neighboring Elsterbach (or, historically, Klingel- )bach, before the Veronese donation, represented the western border of Kurmainz , then the border between the upper and lower Rheingau. If you follow the location drawing by Rudolf Rosensprung (see below), you can find the former Execution site, Hauptstrasse 177, today a specialist company for tombs.

Place of execution

The Lützelau as a place for the central and blood court gave its name to the judicial district. So it is said in 1881:

"In 1625, the district court of Lützelau in the Rheingau comprised twenty villages with 2575 houses or families, ie a population of around 12,000 souls."

- Heinrich von Sybel

Rediscovery

In later times the memory of the location was lost and it was assumed that the location was on a no longer existing Rhine island. In 1962, the Mittelheim teacher and local researcher Rudolf Rosensprung was able to localize the Lützelaue at the place mentioned. While Rosensprung's findings are followed in the historical local lexicon in the state historical information system of Hessen and the Bartholomäus chapel is described by Winkel as being located in Lützelau, there are, on the other hand, historians to this day who do not seem to know Rosensprung's work and the view of 19th century historians of the reproduce lost Rhine island.

Name interpretation

In misunderstanding the original meaning of Lützel , the name was related to a presumed donor of the site, Rheingraf Ludwig II (documented 1076–1104).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel: Description of the Duchy of Nassau . Beyerle, January 1, 1843 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed June 20, 2016]).
  2. ^ Entry on the Winkel district of Oestrich-Winkel in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council , accessed on February 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Heinrich von Sybel: Origin of the German royalty . 1st edition. European History Publishing House , Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7340-0535-0 , pp. 77 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2016] reprint of the original from 1881).
  4. ↑ Contribution to the localization of the Lützelau. In: www.regionalgeschichte.net. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  5. ^ Winkel, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 1, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 10 ″  E