Madenhausen

Madenhausen community Üchtelhausen Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	356 m
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	97532
Area code :	09720
Location of Madenhausen in Bavaria

Madenhausen is a district of the community of Üchtelhausen in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt . From 1620 to 1802 Madenhausen belonged to the imperial city of Schweinfurt .

Geographical location

Evangelical Church of St. Wendelin

Madenhausen is located on a cleared island in the Schweinfurt Rhön , five kilometers north-northeast of Üchtelhausen and eleven kilometers northeast of Schweinfurt . The district of Madenhausen already rises close to the village over 400 m above sea level and borders in the north on the Bad Kissingen district .

From Madenhausen, the district road SW 7 leads north to Volkershausen , a district of Maßbach , and the district road SW 30 south-west to Weipoltshausen . Madenhausen is connected to the state road St 2280 , which runs east of the village in a north-south direction.

climate

As a result of its location in the northern mountainous region of the Schweinfurt Rhön, the climate is free from extreme heat in summer and relatively cold and snowy in winter for Lower Franconian conditions. In the snowy winters of earlier decades, a cross-country ski trail was prepared not far south, near the hamlet of Thomashof , at the Haselstaude hut of the German Alpine Club .

history

Territory of the imperial city of Schweinfurt until 1802 (dark yellow) with Madenhausen in the far north

The first known documentary mention of the place comes from the year 1198.

In 1436/37 the city council of Schweinfurt received some villages and estates from the Teutonic Order for 18,000 guilders, including the neighboring towns of Zell and Weipoltshausen . In 1620 Madenhausen was added to the imperial city territory, although it was separated from the rest of the imperial city area by a very narrow corridor on Hoppachsgrund at the level of the hamlet of Hoppachshof . The residents of the villages belonging to Schweinfurt were subjects of the imperial city, but as a rule had no citizenship . With the last acquisition in 1620, an almost continuous Protestant corridor was created from the city of Schweinfurt via Madenhausen and the knightly canton of Baunach through the Hochstifte Würzburg and Bamberg into the Protestant Duchy of Saxony .

Madenhausen: to Schweinfurt until 1802, then independent, from 1972 to Üchtelhausen, now with the responsible town hall in Hesselbach

During the Thirty Years' War , the victorious Protestant Swedish King Gustav II Adolf stayed in Madenhausen from October 1st to 2nd, 1631 , before his invasion of Schweinfurt, where the General Field Marshal of the Swedish Army Karl Gustav Wrangel set up his headquarters.

In 1852 the Protestant St. Wendelin Church was consecrated.

On January 1, 1972, Madenhausen became a district of Üchtelhausen , a new large community that includes almost the entire western Schweinfurt Rhön , with town hall in Hesselbach as part of the Bavarian regional reform .

Web links

Commons : Madenhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Madenhausen on the website of the community of Üchtelhausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} website of the community of Üchtelhausen. Retrieved November 20, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Several authors: Great Atlas of World History . Lingen Verlag, Cologne 1987, map p. 79: Germany in 1648