Mariengart

Mariengart City of Vacha Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	360–385 m
Incorporated into:	Wölferbütt
Postal code :	36404
Area code :	036965
Location of Mariengart in Thuringia
View of the northern location of Mariengart (2012)

Mariengart is a hamlet-like district of Vacha in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

Mariengart is located south of Wölferbütt on the district road 102, which has a connection to the state road 2601. The trough-like valley is flanked on both sides with wooded slopes. Further south is the Arzberg nature reserve . The geographic height of the place is 360  m above sea level. NN .

history

On August 31, 786, the hamlet owned by the Hersfeld Monastery was first mentioned as Schalkeslohe .

Today the ruins of a burial chapel from 1676 and the remains of a barn of the monastery still stand in Mariengart. The chapel was built for Kunigunde von Boineburg and Friedrich von Buttlar. In 1704 it burned down during repair work.

By Henry of herring starting a was monastery causes he the mendicant order of the Servite transferred, the monastery foundation took place in 1339, but the monks quickly realized that the necessary resources and revenues were not applied at this location to build the monastery and for charity . As early as 1368 the monastery was relocated in front of the city wall of Vacha ( Servite monastery Vacha ). The unfinished building complex was taken over by a local nobleman and served as a farmyard; this successor building was attacked and burned down in the Peasants' War in 1525 . The buildings were renewed and from then on served as a farmyard, but the property was looted again during the Thirty Years War and the heavily indebted owners had to leave the homestead to the wealthy von Buttlar family as a pledge. The new owner Johann Friedrich von Buttlar built the estate, which was preserved until the middle of the 19th century, and surrounded the building complex with a protective wall, of which small remains can still be seen. At the suggestion of his wife, Johann Friedrich von Buttlar had the church ruin converted into a private burial chapel, and the church was consecrated in 1680 by the auxiliary bishop of Mainz. His son, General Johann Christoph von Buttlar , was also involved in the church. It burned down in 1704 and he wanted to have it rebuilt, but this prevented his death near Landau in the Palatinate in 1705. The heirs later preferred other castles and farms in the region, the Mariengart estate was leased, and most recently it served as a sheep farm and accommodation for a forest servant. The structural condition resulted in the courtyard buildings being torn down around 1840. Further farms were laid out in the vicinity of the monastery and formed the town of Mariengart to which the rice mill, built in the 18th century, also belonged; it was demolished in the 1950s, and a representative tavern was built opposite as an excursion restaurant.

Attractions

• The church ruins are located on the south-eastern outskirts and are surrounded by a wall. There are several baroque tombstones from the 18th century on the ruins.
• The village linden marks the center of the village and is surrounded by a circular wall.

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  The church ruin

Web links

Commons : Mariengart  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

• Olaf Ditzel, Walter Höhn: Vacha and the neighboring communities in the Oechsetal . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg / Fulda 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-121-8 , p. 28-30 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 173.
3. ↑ Waldemar Küther . (with the assistance of Hans Goller): Vacha and his Servite monastery in the Middle Ages . In: Central German Research . tape 64 . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne; Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-412-10571-6 , p. 365 .
4. ^ Website of the former Mariengart monastery, with mention of the von Buttlar family
5. ↑ Information board at the ruin.
6. ↑ Own research on site.