Merkershausen
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Merkershausen
City of Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 11 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 46 ″ E
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| Height : | 293 m |
| Residents : | 562 (1987) |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1976 |
| Postal code : | 97631 |
| Area code : | 09761 |
Merkershausen is a district of the city of Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld ( Bavaria ).
geography
The place is on the edge of the Haßberge Nature Park . The Franconian Marienweg runs through Merkershausen .
history
In 795 Gundacar gave his own to the Fulda monastery in “villa Marchhereshuson” . The place name Merkershausen means "near the houses of the Marchheries". This should have been the leader of the clearing farmers. In the period that followed, the Fulda monastery took possession of almost all the goods in the community.
In 1309 Anna, "comitissa de Henneberg " transferred the right of patronage in the community to the Langheim monastery . The Counts of Henneberg had meanwhile come into possession of the village. Due to two inheritance divisions in the county of Henneberg -Schleusingen in 1347 and 1353, the places around Königshofen fell to Count Eberhard II of Württemberg . He sold it to the Würzburg monastery in 1354 . Since then, Merkershausen has been part of the Königshofen office in Würzburg , which was temporarily pledged to the Henneberg-Aschach line in the 15th century.
In 1607, 107 local residents died of the plague . In 1629 a major fire raged in the village and in October 1631 Merkershausen was burned down during the Thirty Years' War by Gustav Adolf's advancing Swedish army. The reconstruction took place very slowly, the parish was not occupied again until 1679.
1803 flag Hausen was in Bavaria's favor secularized , then in the Peace of Pressburg in 1805 Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Wurzburg left with which it 1814 final to Bayern fell. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .
On July 1, 1976 Merkershausen was incorporated into the city of Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld.
Culture and sights
religion
In 1743 the new church, built according to plans by the famous Balthasar Neumann , was consecrated to St. Martin. In the 18th century the sculptor Jakob Bindrim created magnificent wayside shrines in the community. The wayside shrine in front of the parish church was created in 1727. It shows a representation of the Holy Trinity and various figures of saints. In 1869 the protective mantle and war memorial chapel was built on the way to Königshofen.
Chariot graves from the Hallstatt period at Merkershausen (800 BC to 450 BC)
In 1879 traces of a chamber wagon grave from the Hallstatt period were found in the village . The finds, which included a set of neck rings, two arm rings, seven so-called swing rings, belt decorations made of bronze and remains of an iron wheel tire, were distributed to several museums. Another suspected wagon grave was discovered in 1993.
Cameo of the Roman Empire from Merkershausen (around 200 AD) and Germanic settlement
In 1981, in the Germanic settlement of Merkershausen, a cameo with a portrait of Faustina the Younger, wife (147–182) of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, which was rare in the former Germania, was found. It consists of a layered onyx. The cameo is from the end of the 2nd or beginning of the 3rd century.
Architectural monuments
See: List of architectural monuments in Merkershausen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 740 and 741 .
- ↑ Carriage graves from the Hallstatt period in the Rhön Lexicon
- ↑ Cameo from Roman times in the Rhön Lexicon