Salt forest

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The salt forest is the state forest in the former Salzgau in Lower Franconia in Bavaria and a former municipality-free area .

location

The forest comprised the area of ​​the Brend , the headwaters of the Sinn up to the Diesbach, which flows from the Auersberg into the Breite Sinn. To the south the Salzgau extended to the Aschach, to the north to the Sonder brook.

history

The Franconian dukes and kings divided their land into Gaue. The counts, nobles, bishops and monasteries were given rights and possessions in the individual districts. As a result, the influence of the dukes and kings in these districts decreased. However, they reserved the Salzgau with the salt forest as a royal property, which was passed from one king to the other as household property. This district was called Salzgau because it was located near the Salzburg Palace, which the kings had built for themselves not far from the still existing Salzburg. This palace no longer exists.

When the Carolingians came to their Salzburg near Bad Neustadt, they went hunting in the salt forest. This Gau with its forest remained the property of the German kings and emperors until the year 1000. In the year 1000, Emperor Otto III. the Salzgau with the extensive forest to the bishops of Würzburg .

The bishops of Würzburg gave the administration of the forest to the Counts of Henneberg , from which their lineage Henneberg- Aschach arose. Already in the times of Charlemagne, beekeepers and honey cutters were employed in the salt forest. According to a register from 1697/98, 337 birds of prey , 15 old and 26 young wolves were killed in the forest . The last wolf was shot around 1800.

Some of the surrounding communities now have parts of the salt forest in their possession.

source

  • Anton Schumm: History of the City of Bischofsheim , 1875

Web links

Wikisource: Salt forest in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts