Ratzerod

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Ratzerod is a deserted area in the Hohenzell district in the town of Schlüchtern , in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

Geographical location

Ratzerod lies at an altitude of 385 m above sea ​​level , about 3 km southeast of Hohenzell.

history

The oldest surviving mention of the settlement of Ratzerod comes from the year 1303. At that time a gentleman from Ololsbach carried 1/3 of the village from the diocese of Würzburg as a fief . The Huter Real had the Hof Lindenberg . The place belonged to the County of Hanau , since 1458: County of Hanau-Münzenberg . There he was assigned to the office of Schlüchtern .

From 1496, Jewish families who had escaped persecution during the plague in Steinau began to settle in the Ratzerod area . The name “ Judenschule” , which comes from this settlement, can be found on hiking and historical maps at a spring or a small pond (coordinates: 50 ° 17'27.7 "N, 9 ° 32'40.5" E), which is important for Jewish purification rites .

With the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , Ratzerod fell in 1736 with the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which in 1803 became the Electorate of Hesse .

During the Napoleonic period, the Ratzerod desert was from 1806 in an area under French military administration that belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807–1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . The area then fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. In 1817 there were only meadows here and there is a note that Rudolf's village should have stood here. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, during which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the area of ​​Ratzerod belonged to the district of Schlüchtern . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War . The field name Ratzerod can be found in the German basic map from 1906 . After the Second World War , the area became part of the federal state of Hesse .

Historical forms of names

  • Rateresrode (1303)
  • Ratsrode (1331)
  • Ratzerod (1496)
  • Ratzenrod (1817)

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. 367 , (reprint. Edited by Dieter Carl. Historical Edition Carl, Vellmar 1999).
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Vol. 14, ISSN  0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 374.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 38.4 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 32.9 ″  E