Lindelach
Lindelach (also Lindeloch , Lindeloh , Lindinloch ) is a deserted area in the district of the Lower Franconian town of Gerolzhofen . The settlement was devastated in November 1631 and not rebuilt. Today only the two former mills Lindelachshof and Klesenmühle have survived in the area of the village.
Geographical location
The place where the village was is now bordered by the buildings of the Klesenmühle and the Lindelachshof. It is located about 1 kilometer east of the center of Gerolzhofen. The village lay at the northern foot of the Kapellberg, which during the late Middle Ages was home to a "bishop's palace" of the Würzburg monastery . Today the Gertraudis Chapel stands nearby. The Volkachbach touches the former settlement area.
history
The area around Lindelach was probably settled as early as the Paleolithic . Excavations in the area of the former village also produced small devices from the Mesolithic period . Hardly any finds from the Bronze Age came to light, only the end of this period is documented by excavations. The Elbe Germans of the Großromstedt culture built a homestead here that could be identified as a post structure.
In 994, "Lindinlog" is mentioned for the first time as a court in the chronicle of Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg . The name probably refers to a depression, a hole overgrown with linden and chestnut trees.
In a document from King Konrad III. the "curia episcopi Lindinloch" (Latin bishop's court Lindinloch) appears again in 1151 in the sources. For the 13th century Lindelach has its own local nobility "de Lindenloch". Between 1303 and 1313 Konrad Preising owned a fiefdom over several fields and meadows near the village. At the same time, a mill in the village was first mentioned. It was in the hands of the butcher Heinrich Herlein.
After the Fuchs von Bimbach were mentioned in the 16th century as the buyer of what are now two mills in Lindelach, the village is consistently referred to as "villa" (Latin for village). In 1565 17 families lived here, they are listed in a municipality bill, in 1589 there are 22 families. Between 1597 and 1598, the community built its town hall , which was near today's Lindelachhof.
During the Thirty Years' War in November 1631, Swedish troops came from Schweinfurt and moved towards Gerolzhofen. However, the city had holed up and the siege halted. Thereupon the Swedes and some Schweinfurt citizens set fire to the villages of Rügshofen and Lindelach and completely destroyed the village. The homeless residents moved with the attackers in front of the Dingolshausen gate in Gerolzhofen and the city capitulated.
After several attempts to rebuild the village had failed, the Lindelacher family was accepted into Gerolzhofen. Here they remained an independent community until the 19th century. In 2011 and 2012, excavations by the University of Bamberg took place on the site of the deserted village for the first time . Three farms from the 14th to 17th centuries, including their ancillary structures, were partially archaeologically examined.
literature
- Eike Henning Michl, excavations in the Lindelach desert. An archaeological contribution to settlement research and material culture in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Bamberg Writings on Archeology in the Middle Ages and Modern Times 7 (Bonn 2017). ISBN 978-3-7749-4097-0
- Mario Dorsch: Disappeared Medieval Settlements. Desertification between Steigerwald, Main and the Volkach . Hassfurt 2013
- Hans Koppel: Lindelach. Readings, readings and more (= de geroldeshova vol. 10) . Gerolzhofen 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Koppel, Hans: Lindelach . P. 8 f
- ↑ Dorsch, Mario: Disappeared medieval settlements . P. 147
- ^ Koppel, Hans: Lindelach , p. 38
- ↑ Eike Henning Michl: Excavations in the Lindelach desert. An archaeological contribution to settlement research and material culture in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7749-4097-0 , pp. 102 ff .
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 55 " N , 10 ° 21 ′ 56.7" E