Ottersbach (desert)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 53 ′ 28 ″  O Ottersbach is a desert area in the district of Kammerbach , a district of Bad Sooden-Allendorf in the Werra-Meißner district in North Hesse .

location

The settlement was at the foot of the Hoher Meissner about 2 km southwest of Kammerbach at 318  m above sea level. NN Höhe on the left, western bank of the Ottersbach , the right source brook of the Oberrieder Bach , shortly before it turns north when coming from the southwest. The state road L 3301 leads south and west of the desert around 700 m away , which can be reached from the road via a dirt road .

history

The place, although undoubtedly older, was first mentioned as Otterbach in 1300, when the von Rusteberg brothers exchanged their goods there with Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse or sold them to the Landgrave. By 1354 at the latest there was a small moated castle at or near the town of Attirsbach , which was built by the Lords of Völkershausen on their land held there by the landgrave as a fief . Another part of the place was evidently owned by the Fulda Abbey and was lent to the Lords of Ziegenberg by this, at least in the second half of the 14th century . Towards the end of the 14th century, the Fulda part also seems to have come into landgrave possession: in 1395 and 1414 Hans von Völkershausen held a third of the village and court of Ottersbach from Landgrave to Lehen, while the other two thirds continued to be landgrave property and to the landgrave's court Bilstein belonged. The village, however, was quite small: in 1414 only 2½ hubs and three people liable for interest are mentioned. The rest of the usable area seems to have belonged to the manorial court. In 1416 Hans sold by Völkershausen with landgräflicher approval much of his tenure at Apel Appe, the Landgrave bailiff to Bilstein, including the now two-thirds of the court and village Ottersbach with wood, field and 2½ Huben, he Landgraf Ludwig I. held on fief. After Apel Appes death, Landgrave Ludwig I confirmed this fiefdom for his sons Apel and Hans Appe in 1438. In 1444 the settlement comprised nine hubs, but 17 years later, in 1461, the place is called a desert.

Two years later there were settlers on site again, when Landgrave Ludwig II. After the death of the last Appe son to Joh. And hardening of Eschwege, the goods that her brother-in-law Apel Appe had owned, including two thirds of the village and Court Ottersbach with 2½ hubs, meadows and ponds. It is not known whether the small moated castle Ottersbach still existed, but it is no longer mentioned in a document, although landgrave enfeoffments with the court and village of Ottersbach are notarized until 1837. Already in 1471 4½ Huben and 1498 14½ Huben are documented, and in 1556 the district comprised 250 acres of land, 87 acres of meadows and 410 acres of forest.

The place was probably finally given up in the first half of the 19th century. In 1858 Georg Landau reported that you could still see the fountain, the village pond and the churchyard. At the end of the 19th century, the churchyard at Ottersbach was still part of the salary of the pastor at Orferode , whose parish Kammerbach and Ottersbach apparently belonged to.

Current condition

Of the former castle, only remnants of the moat that surrounded the complex can be seen faintly in the area. There is nothing left of the bower or other buildings of the castle or the village. Otherwise, remember only the place names "Outside the church," "church Höfchen" and "front of the castle cesspool" of the lost village and the former castle.

literature

  • Georg Landau : Historical-topographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse and in the grand-ducal Hessian parts of Hessengaue, Oberlahngaue and Ittergaue (= journal of the Association for Hessian History. Supplement 7, ZDB -ID 200295-4 ). Fischer, Kassel 1858, p. 303 , (reprint. Edited by Dieter Carl. Historical Edition Carl, Vellmar 1999).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regest no. 2635. Regests of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Ottersbach Castle, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of January 30, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).