Wall skull

The wall skull ruin in summer 2007

The ruin Mauerschädel is the ruin of a fortified church in the Rhön , located in the Rhön-Grabfeld district .

Geographical location

The church ruin Mauerschädel is located in a gentle valley directly next to the village of Filke, a district of the Willmars community. The ruin is right on the border between Thuringia and Bavaria .

history

Around the year 770 there is the first written mention of a place "Biscofestat" ( episcopal city? - with supposedly over 300 bakers), to which the church ruin Mauerschädel should originally have belonged. A certain aristocrat donated these estates to the Fulda monastery . In this context there were two other communities that disappeared, “Solzach” and “Hoitino”.

Remains of the tower of the ruined wall skull

The church is believed to be built around the year 1000. The village of Bischofs is said to have still existed in 1334 - a hundred years later it is described as "desert". The forecast for intended incident Huns destroyed the village bishop and a massacre have caused among Christians. In 1458 the place Filke is mentioned for the first time - "To the bishop in the Filken".

Investigations in 1903 are said to have established that the ruins were not - as assumed - the remains of a women's monastery, but the church of the former bishop's place. In the ruin, the gaden of the church can still be seen today .

The inner-German border originally ran between the chancel and the nave. In the 1970s the entire ruin was assigned to the Free State of Bavaria and thus to the Federal Republic of Germany by the German-German border commission.

photos

Remains of the church tower and church walls
Window on the tower
Remnants of the Gaden
View from the church tower to Filke

literature

Franz Georg Benkert : The ruins of the bishop, Würzburg 1850. ( digitized version )
Alfons Maria Borst : Filke: Der Mauerschedel , Mellrichstadt "Heimatblätter" April 1932.
Reinhold Albert : The middle litter Bischofswald in Thuringia . Homeland yearbook of the district of Rhön-Grabfeld 2016, p. 188 ff, Mellrichstadt 2015.
Ludwig Wucke : Legends of the central Werra, the adjacent slopes of the Thuringian Forest, the front and the high Rhön, as well as from the area of the Franconian Saale . Eisenach 1891.

Web links

Commons : Ruine Mauerschädel (Filke) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Historical overview

Individual evidence

↑ Reiner Cornelius: From the Rhön to the Thuringian Forest. From the death strip to the lifeline. Auwel-Verlag, Niederaula, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812981-5-4 , p. 71.

50.518888888889 10.226666666667Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '8 " N , 10 ° 13' 36" E

[1] Reiner Cornelius: From the Rhön to the Thuringian Forest. From the death strip to the lifeline. Auwel-Verlag, Niederaula, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812981-5-4 , p. 71.