Oberweilbach (desert)
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 8 ° 24 ′ 26.7 ″ O Oberweilbach is a desert in the area of today's Hofheim am Taunus . It is located southwest of Diedenbergen am Weilbach .
The first documentary mention dates from around the year 1280: Mr. von Eppstein received 21 Simmer Hafer Binger Maß from superiori Wylebach at interest . Niederweilbach (today's Weilbach ) is mentioned in a document from 1222 . The name Niederweilbach allows the conclusion that there must have been an Oberweilbach already at that time. The place was mentioned in documents under different names, as superiori Wylebach (around 1280), as zum hayne gegen Oberwilbach (1309) and as Oberwilbacher wege (1309).
The location is known from a map by Wilhelm Dilich from 1608. At this point, however, the place had long since fallen into desolation. The place was last described as inhabited in 1443, but it must have been desolate as early as 1457.
Oberweilbach had a chapel with a Petrus altar. The altar was moved to the church in Wallau before the chapel was destroyed in 1518 . In 1829 a trapezoidal coffin from the period between 950 and 1250 was found in the area of the desert. This coffin probably comes from the Oberweilbach cemetery. The stone coffin, the only find from the desert, is now in the courtyard of the Wiesbaden Museum.
Today reminiscent field names to upper Weilbach, small and large upper Weilbacher field and upper Weilbacher meadows to the deserted village.
literature
- Dietrich Kleipa: Burlach, Hartbach, Heddingheim and Oberweilbach. Four devastation in the Main-Taunus-Kreis. In: Rad und rafter. Vol. 6, 1980, ISSN 0342-2860 , pp. 11-18, here pp. 16-17.
- Heike Lattka: Places that nobody knows anymore. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , of December 30, 2011, p. 57, accessed on December 31, 2014.
Web links
- Oberweilbach (desert), Main-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).