Saxony (Steinau)

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Saxony is a deserted area in the town of Steinau an der Strasse , in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

Geographical location

The desert is at an altitude of 185 m above sea ​​level about 2 km northeast of Steinau an der Straße.

history

The village of Saxony belonged to the Steinau district of the rule and later County of Hanau , from 1458: County of Hanau-Munzenberg .

The oldest written mention of the village is from 1167. 1303 a mill is occupied. In 1331 the abbot of the Schlüchtern monastery owned 15 farms in the village . Saxony probably died as a village in the 14th century, but in 1565 there were 3 farms and 14 estates here. In 1567 the von Buchenau sold a farm to Paul von Welsberg and in 1611 Count Philipp Ludwig II von Hanau-Münzenberg bought the area of ​​the desert from the von Welsberg.

Historical forms of names

  • Sahsen (1167)
  • Saxony (1278)
  • Sassen (1331)
  • Sets (1347)

literature

  • Ernst Hartmann: History of the city and the office Steinau ad road. Volume 1: Early and Middle Ages. Stadt Steinau, Steinau 1971, pp. 123-133.
  • Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter . Vol. 40). Hanauer Geschichtsverein et al., Hanau 2003, ISBN 3-935395-02-7 , p. 86.
  • 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. 372 , (reprint. Edited by Dieter Carl. Historical Edition Carl, Vellmar 1999).
  • Matthias Nistahl: Studies on the history of the Schlüchtern monastery in the Middle Ages (= sources and research on Hessian history. Vol. 65). Hessische Historische Kommission et al., Darmstadt et al. 1986, ISBN 3-88443-154-4 , pp. 166, 181, (at the same time: Marburg, Universität, dissertation, 1984).
  • 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. 416 f.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 57.9 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 20.8 ″  E