Langenberg (Geiselwind)

Langenberg Geiselwind market Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	353 m
Residents :	108
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	96160
Area code :	09556
Location of Langenberg (bold) in the Geiselwinder municipality

Langenberg is a district of the Geiselwind market in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

Langenberg is centrally located in the Geiselwinder municipality. To the north, the federal motorway 3 dominates the district, further to the north is the Geiselwind leisure park . The northeast and east are taken by Geiselwind himself. Dürrnbuch extends to the south, while Rehweiler can be found in the south-west . The Abtswind municipality begins further to the west.

Closest, larger cities are Kitzingen , about 21 kilometers away, and Bamberg , about 33 kilometers away.

history

The wayside shrine in the center of the village

The place name Langenberg refers to the natural occurrences in the area around the village. It refers to a long ridge in the west of the village, which is formed by the Heuberg and the Fuchsberg. The prefix Langen- comes from the Middle High German word lanc, which means elongated, long. The village was founded around the year 900 when the Franconian royal estates in Main Franconia had already been distributed to deserving nobles and monasteries.

The oldest mention of the place was in the sources as early as 1040. King Heinrich III. at that time restituted some of his farms to the Benedictine convent in Kitzingen . Among them were “4 mansos in villa que dicitur Langinberc” (Latin: four farms in the village called Langenberg). The abbess of Kitzingen was still in possession of the settlement in 1405 and settled a dispute over the belonging of goods.

During the late Middle Ages, different gentlemen were wealthy in Langenberg. In 1417 the knight Wyrich von Treuttlingen acquired an estate in "Langemberg". In 1426, Erkinger VI bought . von Seinsheim several farms from his widow Beatrix. In 1432 the parish of Geiselwind kept income in the village. At that time the tithe was probably in the hands of the Augustinian Canons of Birklingen . The tithe did not change until 1526 after the monastery was destroyed.

Between 1558 and 1575 the Lords of Wenkheim held the tithe over Langenberg. They had received the right out of thanks from the Würzburg monastery . In 1589 the village was still part of the Hochstiftischen Amt Stadtschwarzach, but the Lords of Schwarzenberg , the Castell and the Crailsheim were also wealthy here. Finally, in the 17th century, the Schwarzenbergs asserted themselves as village lords and in 1684 sold extensive forest areas to a few local craftsmen. In 1972 Langenberg came to the newly formed municipality Geiselwind.

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

A wayside shrine from 1833 is the only sight in the village. It was decorated with reliefs of the Pietà and the Assumption of Mary into heaven.

legend

On the path between Gräfenneuses and Langenberg there is a field with a wayside shrine on the edge. There the legend went around of a fiery man who drove his mischief in the field. He could not leave it, but was caught between the boundary stones there . Therefore it was assumed that the fiery man was once a seventh who had committed a great wrong there.

literature

• Hans Bauer: District of Kitzingen. An art and culture guide . Market wide 1993.
• Johann Ludwig Klarmann, Karl Spiegel: Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald. Reprint of the 1912 edition . Neustadt an der Aisch 1982.
• Wolf Dieter Ortmann: District of Scheinfeld (= historical place name book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, vol. 3) . Munich 1967. Local name part .

Web links

Commons : Langenberg (Geiselwind)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ortmann, Wolf Dieter: District of Scheinfeld . P. 116.
2. ^ Ortmann, Wolf Dieter: District of Scheinfeld . P. 116.
3. ^ Bauer, Hans: District of Kitzingen . P. 87.
4. ↑ Klarmann, Johann Ludwig (among others): Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald . P. 117.