Main ferry Schwarzenau

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The Main ferry in front of the ruinous Schwarzach monastery church , Ludwig Richter 1835

The former Main Ferry Schwarzenau was a bar ferry on the Main . It ran between Schwarzenau and the opposite Stadtschwarzach in today's district of Kitzingen. With the construction of the Schwarzenau Ludwigs-Brücke in 1890, the ferry lost its importance and was finally abandoned

history

The Schwarzenau Main ferry is one of the oldest in the wider area. Similar to the Kitzingen ferry station , which was reinforced with a bridge in the Middle Ages , there was an elevated road in Schwarzenau into the northern Steigerwald . First, the ford was crossed on a mount before the ferry station was established. The construction of a ferry was probably also pushed ahead because the Schwarzenau residents had to reach their mother church in Gerlachshausen .

During the Middle Ages, the Counts of Henneberg zu Mainberg held ferry justice. The entourage of Count Wilhelm von Henneberg was allowed to take the ferry across for free. In 1542, the Würzburg bishop Konrad III. from Bibra the free passage for himself and the officials of his bishopric. In later times the ferry rights fell to the Echter von Mespelbrunn when they acquired the village of Schwarzenau in 1588. Later the von Erthal and Ingelheim family held the right.

However, the crossing with the Schwarzenau Main ferry was often associated with accidents, so that Valentin Echter von Mespelbrunn raised the branch church of St. Laurentius von Schwarzenau to a parish church in 1609 and thus made frequent crossings superfluous. From then on, almost only non-residents used the Main ferry. On July 30, 1796, two French divisions passed the ferry station and crossed the Main.

With the transition of the region to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg at the beginning of the 19th century, the Main ferry became an important transition for the French troops. On October 3, 1806, Napoleon marched through Franconia and had a large ship bridge built in Schwarzenau. The Mainstockheim ferry was also used for this purpose . In 1812 the ferry was transported to Heidingsfeld . A year later, in 1813, the French fortified the ship bridge by "throwing up the jumps".

In winter, the Main ferry was threatened by ice drift. Christoph Lenz died in 1848 while trying to save the ferry from the ice. In 1871 the ferry crashed on the Kitzinger Main Bridge. In 1839 it had already been converted into a flying bridge . Only the initiative of the city of Dettelbach meant the end of the ferry: The city built a bridge near Schwarzenau in 1890, so that the importance of the ferry decreased.

In the same year the ferry service was stopped due to unprofitability . Only between 1945 and 1946, after the Main Bridge had been destroyed by the soldiers of the Wehrmacht , was a ferry set up again. At that time, the system was operated by the fisherman Martin Weichsel, who had previously managed the customs revenue at the Main Bridge.

Ferrymen

The names of several ferrymen or ferrymen who operated the ferry on behalf of the community have been handed down from the 18th century. The Ungemach family temporarily held the ferry rights in the nearby Mainsondheim .

Surname Mentioned Remarks
Benedict hardship 1740
Michael Söder 1763
Sebastian Gallena 1774
Martin Weichsel 1945-1946 Weichsel operated the emergency ferry after the Main Bridge was blown up

See also

literature

  • Peter Burger, Reiner Dressler, Ralf Prappacher, Werner Sendner: Schwarzenauer village chronicle . Schwarzenau 1992.
  • Fritz Mägerlein: Inauguration of the bridge in Schwarzenau . In: In the Bannkreis des Schwanbergs 1959. Heimat-Jahrbuch for the district of Kitzingen . Kitzingen 1959. pp. 156-157.
  • Otto Selzer: Fords and ferries in the Kitzingen district (2) . In: In the Bannkreis des Schwanbergs 1961. Heimat-Jahrbuch for the Kitzingen district . Kitzingen 1961. pp. 128-138.

Web links

Commons : Main ferry Schwarzenau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selzer, Otto: Fuhrten and ferries in the district of Kitzingen (2) . P. 128.
  2. ↑ Mägerlein, Fritz: Bridge consecration in Schwarzenau . P. 156.
  3. ↑ Selzer, Otto: Fuhrten and ferries in the district of Kitzingen (2) . P. 129.
  4. ^ Burger, Peter (among others): Schwarzenauer Dorfchronik . P. 37.
  5. ^ Burger, Peter (among others): Schwarzenauer Dorfchronik . P. 35.

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 6.6 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 4.8 ″  E