Leimbach (Altmorschen)

The Leimbach desert is a desolate place in the area of Altmorschen , municipality of Morschen , in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, which fell by the 16th century at the latest .

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1061 as “Leinbach” and was located between Altmorschen and Heinebach , about 2.2 km southeast of Altmorschen in the Fulda plain north of the river and immediately south of today's Bebra - Kassel railway line , the former Friedrich- Wilhelms-Nordbahn . Nearby, on the other side of the railway line and on federal highway 83 , there is a modern agricultural farm named after the desert, the Leimbachs Hof.

The place had its own church early on, because 1235 is called a pleban . In 1263 the Duchess Sophie von Brabant , mother of the later Hessian Landgrave Heinrich I , donated the church to the Haydau Monastery . In 1579 the now desolate church is mentioned for the last time in the Hay Duration Salbuch .

A lower aristocratic family probably named themselves after the place, which was recorded in 1220 and died out in the 15th century. The first abbess of the Haydau monastery, Gertrud von Leimbach , a confidante of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia .

Remarks

↑ Later mentions also call the place “Leigenbach” (1196) and “Legenbach” (1235).
↑ The church was probably not, as is sometimes assumed, 0.9 km further northwest on the 209 meter high Kapellberg, because the Haydau monastery built a pilgrimage chapel there in 1514 .

Web links

Leimbach (desert), Altmorschen district, Morschen community, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

51.052 9.6332Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 7 ″ N , 9 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E

[1] Later mentions also call the place “Leigenbach” (1196) and “Legenbach” (1235).

[2] The church was probably not, as is sometimes assumed, 0.9 km further northwest on the 209 meter high Kapellberg, because the Haydau monastery built a pilgrimage chapel there in 1514 .