Ruthardshain

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Ruthardshain is the name of a desert in the district of Kronberg im Taunus in the Kronberg Forest northwest of the Bürgelkopf about 2 kilometers north-northwest of Kronberg Castle .

In 1330 Ruthartishain is mentioned as a forest. According to this document, Else, Walter von Kronberg's wife , had a right to wood there. A newly built chapel is mentioned in Rutharteshan in 1339 . In the following year this is called the chapel gloriose VM (aria), ste. Cruzis, Judoci et sti. Anthonii called.

With a document from 1354, Frank and Ulrich von Kronberg agreed an alternating right of investiture . In 1381 and 1419 presentations by new priests to the Church of St. Judocus and St. Anton are documented. An altarist is mentioned for the last time in 1440. In 1550 the church fell into disrepair and the altar was moved to the Kronberg church.

Other spellings of the name were Rutershayn (1340), Ruthatzhane (1350) and Ruthartshayn (1357). The field name Ruders still exists today . The name of the Kronberg settlement Rothenhang is also derived from the desert.

literature

  • Reinhard Michel. From the desert in the Hochtaunuskreis. In: Ingrid Berg, Eugen Ernst, Hans-Joachim Galuschka, Gerta Walsh (eds.): Heimat Hochtaunus. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pp. 163-171.
  • Gerd Bethke: Main-Taunus-Land: Geschichtliches Ortslexikon, 1996, p. 163
  • A. von Cohausen: The Ruders Chapel in the Cronberger Forest; in: Nassauische Annalen , Volume 20 (1888), p. 51