Meerhof (Alzenau)
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A former homestead near Alzenau in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg is called the Meerhof , or more popularly known as the Meerhöfchen .
geography
The Meerhof is located in the lower Kahlgrund on the district road AB 25 between Alzenau and Kahl am Main on a peninsula in the Meerhofsee .
history
The Meerhof was first mentioned in a document in 1592, but it is assumed that it was originally one of the many courtyards in the lost village of Prischoss . This is concluded from the fact that the disappeared town also extended on the right side of the Kahl and the Meerhof is very old. In 1565 the homestead was listed as a sheep farm in the free court . At that time, the farm included: a house, two sheep stables, a pigsty, a barn, a bakery and a well. The shepherd also had the right to build a bridge over the Kahl into Prischoss, which is still called the Sheep Bridge today .
There was a long dispute between Kurmainz and Hanau over the lands of the Meerhof. Mainz had the so-called Emmerichshöfe built, which meant that the Meerhof lost important pastures. Hanau then ordered the shepherd to graze in the brushwood undamaged. The shepherd was threatened with blows from Mainz if he was to carry out this order. Hanau took the shepherd under protection. It was not until 1772 that the dispute between Kurmainz and Hanau was settled by a contract.
In 1821 the farm came to the city of Alzenau, and since 1902 there has been a pub in the former farmstead. As a result, the employees of the basalt quarry between Alzenau and Kahl submitted an application to get their food and drinks from the nearby Meerhof. With the construction of the gravel works, the bed of the Kahl was relocated, and it was believed that the Meerhof would one day disappear with the northern expansion into the Wilmundsheim pit . However, the expansion project was canceled because it would have relocated the roads and the Kahl – Schöllkrippen railway line . When the mining work was completed in 1968, the open-cast mine filled with groundwater, and the lake created here was named Meerhofsee in 1972 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1968 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN 0933-1328 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '9.7 " N , 9 ° 2' 34.7" E