Rosenthal (Duderstadt)

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Rosenthal is a desert about three kilometers west of Duderstadt in Eichsfeld .

history

Field names in the former area of ​​Rosenthal

Nothing is known about the establishment of the settlement. It was located in the river basin of the Nathe , as evidenced by the field name "Kirchhof", which is still in use today, for an area of ​​around 2 hectares on the southern bank of the Nathe . According to the oldest document mentioned by Rosenthal, Hugo de Marchia sold some goods in the village to Provost Bertold and his monastery in Teistungenburg in February 1297 , which he had in fiefdom from the Counts in Scharzfeld and Lutterberg and from Honstein . According to the documents, the town center should have become desolate between 1330 and 1360; only a few outlying farms and the water mill continued to operate.

The legend reports that the rich village was destroyed because of the blasphemous way of life of the inhabitants by a huge landslide from the northern slope of the Euzenberg , triggered by torrential rain. With the exception of one family, which remained true to the Christian rules, all residents perished. In fact, the downfall of the village would have been considerably less dramatic. It is true that the legend can have a real core, because the meadows on both sides of the river consist of a wide and very strong strip of alluvial land, which was deposited over the centuries when the areas were flooded frequently. It is therefore not unlikely that the Rosenthalers gradually gave up their settlement after several consecutive violent floods. Despite the lack of sources, it cannot be ruled out that the residents of the settlement core died of the plague epidemic that raged in Central Europe from 1347 onwards .

The common land of the desert, which consisted of approx. 30 hectares of forest, some meadows and arable land and the presumed former town center, the churchyard , was continued to be cultivated by the descendants of the Rosenthal family as a Rosenthal inheritance . The inheritance exists in the form of a real community up to the present day. Its oldest documented traces go back to 1405, almost complete records exist since 1502.

literature

  • Erhard Kühlhorn: The medieval desolations in southern Lower Saxony Volume 3. O – Z, Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89534-133-9 , pp. 221–225.

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  1. ^ A b Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr , Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes , Reprint, Duderstadt 1995.
  2. ^ Julius Jäger, document book of the Teistungenburg monastery , Part II, Halle 1879.
  3. ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn, The Middle Ages Wüstungen in Südniedersachsen , publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, Volume 34, Göttingen 1995, p. 221.
  4. ↑ Anthony Uldaricus from Erath, Codex diplomaticus Quedlinburgensis ff, Frankfurt / Main, 1764. S. 704th
  5. ↑ Max von Westernhagen, History of the Family v. Westernhagen on the Eichsfelde for a period of 7 centuries , Erfurt 1913, p. 79.
  6. ^ Julius Jäger, deed book of the Teistungenburg Monastery , Part II, Halle 1879, No. 121 and 126.
  7. ^ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr, Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes , Reprint, Duderstadt 1995, p. 797 f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 52.3 "  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 36.4"  E