Lahr (desert)

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Example of a stoned terrace for arable farming in neighboring Wermers

Lahr (also Lohr , late medieval : Lare vor der Ronen ( Lahr vor der Rhön )) was a village near Oberelsbach south of the Gangolfsberg above the Els , was southeast of the clearing place Wermers (today Schweinfurter Haus ) and fell desolate again in the 15th century .

The place was the Würzburg fiefdom. The place is mentioned again in a deed of garnishment for 1435, when the Hildenburg office with Fladungen and other localities was pledged by Bishop Johann II von Brunn to Count Georg von Henneberg - Römhild for 11990 guilders . It was purchased after the desert, as was the nearby town of Lanzig von Oberelsbach , which was also deserted . Today the settlement area is mainly in the area around Ostheim vor der Rhön .

The clearing site should promote the development of the Rhön Mountains. The place or hamlet was in the area of ​​today's Mühlwiese corridor . Today only cleared terraces north of the corridor, rows of stones and heaps of stones below the steep slope of the Gangolfsberg are visible . These can be discovered on a hiking trail that leads up and around the Gangolfsberg.

The place is noted in the legends of the Rhön. Lahrberg and Lahrgrund in the direction of Urspringen are remnants of the settlement by name. Most of the arable land and settlement area is again forested today. The area is with the number D-6-5526-0009 Wüstung "Lahr" of the late Middle Ages a ground monument according to the Bavarian Monument List , which was created on the basis of the Bavarian Monument Protection Act of October 1, 1973.

literature

  • Christoph Rytka: The settlement history of the Rhön - Grabfeld area from the late Latène period to the end of the 13th century. 1989, p. 270.
  • Reinhold E. Lob: The desolations of the Bavarian Rhön and the north-western grave field: and their significance for the periodization of the history of the natural landscape. Friends of Main Franconian art a. Story e. V., 1970, p. 71 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documented mention of 1317, noted on a board on the hiking trail around the Gangolfsberg: Historisches Ackerland Gangolfsberg
  2. ^ Christiane Barr: Conflict and criminal court: the expansion of the central jurisdiction of the Würzburg prince-bishops at the beginning of the early modern period. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, p. 39.
  3. ^ H. Wagner: Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Neustadt ad Saale. Commission for Bavarian State History, 1982, p. 127.
  4. ↑ Chr. Ludwig Wucke: Legends of the central Werra: the adjacent slopes of the Thuringian Forest, the front and the high Rhön, as well as the Franconian Saale. Hofbuchdruckerei Eisenach, 1921, p. 194.
  5. ↑ List of monuments Ostheim vor der Rhön of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , No. D-6-5526-0009, desert "Lahr" of the late Middle Ages , re-qualified (as of November 13, 2015)

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 33.5 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 9.9 ″  E