Poppenheim

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Poppenheim is a desert west of Riedstadt - Erfelden . The place went down in the Rhine at the end of the 15th century . Its exact location is unknown.

location

Poppenheim was west of Erfelden. The Hessian Historical Ortlexikon assumes that the place in the area of ​​today's district Leopoldsgewann was about 2 km from today's Rhine. In contrast to this, Georg Wagner assumed in 1862 that it was in the area of ​​the current course of the Rhine near the Kleiner Kühkopf . He justifies this with the sinking of the place in the Rhine and an accumulation of places associated with Poppenheim in this area; also have Hahn sand belongs to Popp Heimer district.

history

Poppenheim was first mentioned in 765 in the Lorsch Codex as uilla Pophenheim . In 782 the Lorsch Monastery was given real estate here, and between 780 and 802 the Fulda Monastery as well . In 1252, the Archbishop of Mainz, Gerhard I von Dhaun , acquired Poppenheim, along with other towns, and the Mainz church subsequently received other goods in the town, including the St. Viktor monastery in front of Mainz . The Eberbach Monastery is also documented as the landowner in the middle of the 14th century .

In 1433 the Counts of Katzenelnbogen signed a contract with the Eberbach monastery and numerous places in the Hessian Ried about the maintenance costs of the destroyed Rhine dike between Poppenheim and the bank of the Rhine opposite the Nierstein.

In 1486 the pastor of Hofheim (today's Philippshospital ) was commissioned by Archbishop Berthold von Henneberg to demolish the Poppenheim chapel in order to rebuild it at another location or to use the building material for the Hofheim parish church, as the foundations of the chapel were repeatedly attacked by the Rhine and the chapel would likely collapse in the next flood. Some farms in Poppenheim had already been given up in 1474. Probably the place fell deserted between 1474 and 1486 by floods. The interest book of Konrad X. von Frankenstein noted in the entry on Poppenheim for the year 1489 that the Rhine took away most of it.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Poppenheim (desert), Groß-Gerau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner: The devastation in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Starkenburg Province. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862, pp. 161–168 .
  3. ^ Thomas Berger: Contributions to the history of the parish Hofheim 802–1535. In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History. Vol. 43, 1991, ISSN  0066-6432 , pp. 13-50, here p. 47.

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 2.8 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 44.7"  E