Mosenberg (Weismain)

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Mosenberg
City of Weismain
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 501 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 49  (Jan. 1, 2015)
Postal code : 96260
Area code : 09575
Catholic Chapel of the Virgin Mary
Catholic Chapel of the Virgin Mary

Mosenberg is a village with 49 inhabitants. It belongs as a separate district to the city of Weismain in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels , in the north of the Free State of Bavaria .

Geographical location

Mosenberg is located at 501  m above sea level. NN on a plateau east of the Kleinziegenfelder valley . The plateau belongs to the northern foothills of the Franconian Jura in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park . South of the village is the Kötteler Grund, a side valley of the Kleinziegenfelder valley. The next towns are Schammendorf , Waßmannsmühle , Wallersberg , Weihersmühle , Arnstein , Bojendorf , and Frankenberg . The city center of Weismain is around 4.4 kilometers to the northeast.

history

etymology

In 1360 the place was first called "Maßenperg". The spelling “Mosenberg” from 1422, “Mossenberg” from 1433 and “Osenberg” from 1560 has been handed down. The current place name originated as an agglutination ; the article merged with the place name, which was probably associated with the Asenberg . It is therefore a theophoric place name, a settlement name with the component of a god name, since the sir are the younger gods of Germanic mythology . The origin of the name is particularly clear in the traditional spelling from 1560, which is to be regarded as the pure form of the name. Since the place name goes back to the name of the mountain on which the village is located, the origins of today's village name lie in the naming of the mountain in pre-Christian times.

Prehistory and early history

The plateau around Mosenberg was already settled in pre-Christian times. Several barrows from this period have been preserved to the southeast and east of the village. Two of the barrows were archaeologically examined in 1840 by their discoverer, the Islinger pastor Lukas Hermann (1807–1863). They were each 1.5 meters high, with a diameter of around 20 meters. In one of the three people were buried, which as grave goods sharpening stones of slate had been settled and pig teeth. In the other, Hermann was able to recover five ore earrings and some rather artlessly made clay pots. The burial mounds are believed to date from the Late Bronze Age or Iron Age . In 1964 a row of burial grounds from Carolingian - Ottonian times was discovered in the village .

Late Middle Ages to Early Modern Times

Around 1360 Mosenberg belonged largely to the Rauschner family of Rauschenstein Castle in Arnstein . For an unexplained cause, Mosenberg fell desolate around 1500 and was either before or after that the Rauschners sold it to the Bamberg monastery . This sold the fields and forests in the area of ​​the former village in 1527. In the following centuries residents settled again, so that for 1801 a shepherd's house and seven farms are recorded in Mosenberg.

Probably in 1774 a chapel was built in Mosenberg for the first time. It was a small verschieferten timber on the outskirts of Frankenberg with a floor area of 7.2 m². It was built to replace a small prayer chapel that is said to have stood in the forest near Wallersberg in the past. By 1878 the chapel was already threatened with decay and could only be renovated in July 1880, after a year earlier a new owner had acquired the property on which the chapel stood.

19th century until today

The voluntary fire brigade in Mosenberg was founded in 1884.

In 1961, a new, larger Catholic chapel with the patronage of the Virgin Mary was built according to plans by Werner Ruff . On the outside, next to the entrance door, the figures of the two Saints Anthony of Padua (left) and Laurentius of Rome (right) are embedded. In 2011 it was completely renovated by the Chapel Preservation Association before the 50th anniversary.

In 1971, the road from Wallersberg to Mosenberg was built in its current course, which means that the place was better connected to the Kleinziegenfelder valley and to the next larger towns Weismain and Stadelhofen . The street section was officially opened in January 1972. The then Arnstein pastor Ludwig Wimplinger performed the blessing and District Administrator Helmut G. Walther symbolically cleared the route by cutting a white ribbon. Four years later the road was extended to Frankenberg .

Mosenberg was incorporated into Weismain on January 1, 1976 as part of the Wallersberg community, together with the localities Frankenberg , Schammendorf , Waßmannsmühle and Weihersmühle .

Population development

The table shows the population development of Mosenberg.

year Residents source
1803 53
1833 58
1949 55
1987 60
2013 49
2015 49

societies

literature

  • Joachim Andraschke: The desert on the mountains . In: Heimatgeschichtliche Zeitschrift für der Landkreis Lichtenfels , Volume 11 - 2002, Verlag Vom Main zum Jura, Eggolsheim 2002, p. 32
  • Markus Hatzold: Festschrift of the Wallersberg-Mosenberg Volunteer Fire Brigade , Weismain 2009, length: 118 pages
  • Josef Urban: Festschrift on the occasion of the centenary , Wallersberg-Mosenberg 1984, length: 112 pages

Web links

Commons : Mosenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Topographic map of Bavaria - Mosenberg - Weismain , geoportal.bayern.de, accessed on December 26, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Andraschke (2002), p. 32.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Josef Urban: Leafed through the history books: Stations in the history of Wallersberg, Mosenberg and Weihersmühle . In: Markus Hatzold: Festschrift der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Wallersberg-Mosenberg , Weismain 2009, pp. 37–41
  4. ↑ a b c d Josef Urban: Leafed through the history books: Stations in the history of Wallersberg, Mosenberg and Weihersmühle . In: Markus Hatzold: Festschrift der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Wallersberg-Mosenberg , Weismain 2009, p. 45
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Josef Urban: Leafed through the history books: Stations in the history of Wallersberg, Mosenberg and Weihersmühle . In: Markus Hatzold: Festschrift der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Wallersberg-Mosenberg , Weismain 2009, pp. 65–71
  6. ↑ Josef Urban: From the beginnings of our weir . In: Markus Hatzold: Festschrift der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Wallersberg-Mosenberg , Weismain 2009, pp. 87–97
  7. ↑ a b c d Mosenberg ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 26, 2014
  8. ^ Joseph Anton Eisenmann: Geographical description of the Archdiocese of Bamberg: together with a short overview of the suffragan dioceses: Würzburg, Eichstätt and Speyer . Bamberg 1833, p. 511 ( full text in Google Book Search). , P. 484
  9. ↑ Mosenberg Genealogical Site Directory , gov.genealogy.net, accessed on December 26, 2014
  10. ↑ Distribution of residents in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2013 ( memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 26, 2014
  11. ↑ Distribution of residents in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2015 ( memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), stadt-weismain.de, accessed on October 10, 2015