Leichtenweiler
Leichtenweiler is a total deserted area near Reichertshausen , a district of the city of Neudenau in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The place, the exact location of which is not known, died in the 14th or early 15th century.
location
Leichtenweiler was about a kilometer northwest of Reichertshausen, probably between Mehlgrund and Leichtenweiler pond .
history
Leichtenweiler was first mentioned in a document in 1328, when Albrecht von Hohenlohe testified that he had received the three hamlets of Richertshußen ( Reichertshausen ), Verherbrunnen ( Veherbronn ) and Luhtenwyler (Leichtenweiler) from his deceased first wife. In 1337 Albrecht transferred the three hamlets with all residents, property and rights to the Würzburg monastery , which his son had joined as a canon. These two documents are the only certain information about the existence of the places Leichtenweiler and Veherbronn, while Reichertshausen still exists today. The next documentary mention in 1473 already says that the fields of the two places were cultivated from Reichertshausen for at least one generation. It is believed that Leichtenweiler was abandoned before Veherbronn, as the Leichtenweiler corridor was first divided between Reichertshausen and Veherbronn before Veherbronn fell into desolation and the entire corridor came to Reichertshausen. In the course of time not only the places but also the hallways fell desolate. While in 1473 there were 55 acres of fields that belonged to Leichtenweiler, in 1542 only three and a half acres were farmed. Only after the Thirty Years' War were the arable land partly cleared again.
The reasons for the abandonment of Leichtenweiler lie both in the plague that occurred several times in the 14th century and the concentration of settlements in favor of the fortified village of Siglingen and possibly in the early drying up of the old springs in the Sülztal.
literature
- Hartmut Gräf: Siglingen, Reichertshausen, Kreßbach - A home book. Neudenau-Siglingen 1978, pp. 158-166.