Mühlfeld (Mellrichstadt)

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Mühlfeld has been part of the town of Mellrichstadt in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld since 1978 . In 2011 Mühlfeld had 363 inhabitants.

location

The small Franconian town lies between the Rhön and the Thuringian Forest on the edge of the Grabfeld in one of the areas with the lowest rainfall in Bavaria , right on the eastern border with Thuringia . Mühlfeld is characterized by a hilly, often wooded landscape with a view of the Hochrhön . The A 71 runs south two kilometers away.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1196. In the 14th century, when Mühlfeld belonged to the Counts of Henneberg ( Amt Maßfeld ), there is evidence of a noble seat in the village. Several noble families held the castle as fiefs. In the late Middle Ages there is talk of a castle in Mühlfeld that was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 and then rebuilt. Presumably, the construction fell again when Mühlfeld in the Thirty Years' War temporarily to the deserted village was. The place belonged to the imperial knighthood and at that time was owned by the Woliehen family , who had a castle built here in the 18th century. In 1786 the Wolzo family had to sell the castle to the Seefriede von Buttenheim family due to indebtedness .

Until the introduction of the Reformation in 1547 by Count Georg Ernst von Henneberg , Mühlfeld belonged to the parish of Mellrichstadt. In 1638 Mühlfeld became a parish branch of Berkach for several years , as the devastation caused by the Thirty Years' War meant there was no financial means for an own pastor. An important pastor of the place was the poet Andreas Mergilet (1539-1606) from Mellrichstadt, who was crowned Poeta Laureate and worked in Mühlfeld from 1590 until his death. The church with a late Gothic choir tower was built in 1593 and expanded in 1723. The altar painting shows a crucifixion scene and was probably designed by Johann Christoph Wahnus .

In 1808 Frickenhausen came to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and in 1814 to Bavaria .

On May 1, 1978, Mühlfeld was incorporated into Mellrichstadt after the two-class elementary school in the town was incorporated into the Mellrichstadt Christian Community School in 1967.

Worth seeing

Wolzog Castle was built in 1715 by Reichshofrat Johann Christoph Freiherr von Wolhaben, whose family was expelled from Austria due to their Protestant beliefs and was owned by the von Wolhaben family until the foreclosure sale in 1988 , from whom it also borrows its name. The city had it extensively restored and it now serves as a museum (including the Heinrich Reich porcelain collection ) and an exhibition building.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolzog Castle in the Rhön Lexicon
  2. ↑ a b c Mellrichstadt then and now. A memory book on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the city uprising 1232/1233. (Ed .: Stadt Mellrichstadt, Ed .: Walter Graumann, Josef Kuhn), Richard Mack KG Verlag, Mellrichstadt 1983, p. 86 ff.
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 741 .
  4. ↑ Castles and Palaces, Volume 42 , German Castle Association, 2001, page 50

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 21'  E