Sacrificial tree

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Sacrificial tree
community Bergtheim
Coordinates : 49 ° 55 '  N , 10 ° 5'  E
Height : 259 m
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Incorporated into: Bergtheim
Postal code : 97241
Area code : 09367

Sacrificial tree is a district of the municipality of Bergtheim in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg .

Geographical location

Sacrificial tree is located in the far north of the Bergtheim municipality. The district of Schweinfurt begins further north. The community of Werneck with the district Eßleben is closest to Opferbaum. Separated by the Bamberg – Rottendorf railway line is Schwanfeld in the east , also part of the Schweinfurt district. Bergtheim itself is connected to the district by federal road 19 to the south . To the west lies Hausen near Würzburg .

history

The Lambertus Church in sacrificial tree

Sacrificial tree was mentioned for the first time in 1160 in a document in which a certain Rupert gave a farm and a field in sacrificial tree to the St. Stephan monastery in Würzburg for his master Sefried von Opferbaum, probably from the local nobility . The place name is probably derived from sacrifice ban, which means something like sacrificial district. It could point to a Germanic cult site, perhaps on the nearby Eichelberg. The settlement is much older, however, as the sacrificial tree was probably already inhabited during the Stone Age.

The Middle Ages were shaped by many changing rulers. By 1400, a total of about ten gentlemen were wealthy in the village, including the Counts of Castell . At the end of the Middle Ages, only ecclesiastical gentlemen were represented in Sacrificial Tree, the Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan, the monastery of Himmelspforten and the convent of Heiligenthal . The Johanniterkommende and the Würzburg Cathedral Chapter also owned some subjects.

For a long time, the church was dependent on the parish of Eßleben. It was not until 1869 that sacrificial tree became its own parish. In 1553, the Ansbach margrave Albrecht Alcibiades held a battle of retreat in the area of ​​the village . The village was devastated in the Thirty Years War . Also in 1796 the place was the scene of the battles for Würzburg. French soldiers looted the community. Around 1900 the village was the seat of a brewery. In 1978 sacrifice tree joined the municipality of Bergtheim as a district.

Attractions

Wayside shrine with the Trinity, Jahnstraße 15

The center of the village is the Catholic parish church of St. Lambertus. It was rebuilt in 1614 by Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn and equipped with a typical, post-Gothic tower. The nave was rebuilt in 1859. The sacrificial tree is shaped by the many wayside shrines and small memorials that have been set up all over the village and the surrounding area. They testify to the popular piety of past centuries.

literature

  • Christian Will: Greetings from the communities around Würzburg . Würzburg 1983.

Web links

Commons : Sacrificial Tree  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ VG-Bergtheim: History of the offering tree , accessed on May 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Christian Will: Greetings from the communities around Würzburg. P. 9.