Mühlhausen (desert)

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Mühlhausen is a desert south of the town of Schwarzenbach an der Saale in the Upper Franconian district of Hof .

The exact location of Mühlhausen has not yet been finally clarified, but it can be narrowed down. It was to the east of today's state road St 2177 between Schwarzenbach and Kirchenlamitz in the area of ​​Various, Waldbad and Entenloh.

The place was first mentioned in 1317 in the Henneberg fief register . The ending of the place name in -hausen indicates a very early Franconian settlement on an old road for the region . In 1398 Arnold von Hirschberg received various fiefs from the Nuremberg burgrave Johann III. , including Mühlhausen, known as the desert. A document from 1420 shows that three farmers lived in the village. In the period from 1466 to 1592, the place was often mentioned in documents, but the name gradually changed from a village to a forest area. Thiem suspects that Mühlhausen was the original name for Schieda or that it was incorporated into it. The place name first appeared in 1538. It refers to the old designation "Kleines Mühlhölzlein" for today's forest department Waldbad. The assignment to Schieda is doubtful because there was another Schieda near Dörflas and, in the 15th century, a Schieda homestead near Hallerstein , which was usually mentioned together with Hallerstein and Gettengrün . Ernst Zeh refers to an older, rejected theory according to Warg, according to which the place is said to have been between Schwingen and Quellenreuth .

literature

  • Reinhard Höllerich : Former district of Rehau and formerly district-free city of Selb . Historical book of place names of Bavaria , Volume 3, Munich 1977. P. 41f.
  • Rudolf Thiem: Disappeared Villages and Settlements in the Western Fichtel Mountains , Hof 2002. P. 80–82.
  • Ernst Zeh: Local history of the city of Rehau (...) . 1916. Reprinted by Hof 1987. p. 55.

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