Schmalfeld (desert, Kitzingen)

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Schmalfeld (later Reupelshof , Reubelshof ) is a deserted area on the boundary of the independent city of Kitzingen in the district of the same name in Lower Franconia. The settlement was abandoned in the 16th century. Probably it had already been converted into a single estate.

Geographical location

Schmalfeld was already located in a document from the High Middle Ages between Kitzingen and Großlangheim . After the settlement was dissolved, the district was initially largely assigned to Großlangheim. Today the area of the Kitzingen airfield with the conneKT technology park rises south of the state road 2272 at the deserted site. The settlement was traversed by the Bimbach, which is called Weihersbach here. The corridors Reupelswand and Schmalfelder Wiesen are reminiscent of the place.

history

The name of the settlement with the ending -feld refers to the settlement phase of the 6th or 7th century, when Frankish colonizers subjugated the long -established Germanic tribes and promoted the development of the country. The prefix Schmal- (from Latin malus) probably goes back to the natural geography around the village. The site was not very fertile and only allowed a few families to survive.

Schmalfeld was first mentioned in 1276. At that time, Eberhard Fuchs (von Bimbach) left the village “Smalvelt” to the Cistercian monastery of Ebrach . The monks converted the village into a so-called grangie , a single farmstead, leaving only the fortified house in the village. The moated castle originally served the Segnitz von Schmalfeld family as a residence. In 1336 the farm between Kitzingen and Großlangheim was called "Scmaluelt". The land register of the monastery described the farm in more detail. Several meadows and trees were part of the complex next to the farmland. Ebrach had leased the farm to the Viennese couple.

In the 14th century the estates changed hands frequently. In 1351 a certain Konrad, called Ekhart, gave the Kitzinger Spital some meadows near the farm. In 1359 the Würzburg cathedral chapter received some interest from "Smalfelt". In 1365 the hospital in Kitzingen received additional meadows on the “Smalfelder” mark. In the same year, the district court in Nuremberg canceled the sale of the farm by Kunz Raspe to Götz von Hohenlohe . It remained in the hands of the Steigerwald Abbey.

Heinz Cölln and his wife from Kitzingen became tenants in 1368. They had to provide building money for the court in 1379 after the judgment of an arbitration court. At that time, the Schmalfelder Hof consisted of a small chapel in addition to the farm buildings. By the end of the 14th century, the farm had already fallen desolate for a time. Heinz Cölln was made responsible for this. In the 15th century, some Kitzinger families leased the farm, so the Segnitz family has been recorded there from 1488.

After the former castle complex stood empty for a few years, it was probably demolished by the city of Kitzingen in 1515. In 1520 the Ebrach monastery handed over some arable land and meadows to the community of Hoheim . From then on, a watermill with a manor on the site of the old settlement is documented for the first time .

It was bought in 1662 by the Reubold family who coined the name Reupelshof. Possibly the name goes back to the court chamber director Reubel or the Würzburg businessman Reibelt. In 1764 the Würzburg Juliusspital acquired the farm. In 1816 the remains of the fortified predecessor buildings were still being used for road construction. In 1893, a stop on the Kitzingen – Schweinfurt railway line was named Reubelshof. At the beginning of the 20th century, the mill was also torn down when the airfield was being built.

literature

  • Reinhard Feisel, Stephanie Nomayo: Saufeder, Hirschfänger and Federspiel. Waidwerk in Franconia until the end of the feudal hunt. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition of the City Museum Kitzingen. November 22, 2013–30. March 2014 (= series of publications by the City Museum Kitzingen, vol. 7) . Kitzingen 2014.
  • Peter Rückert: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages in the Franconian Gäuland. Diss . Wuerzburg 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feisel, Reinhard (among others): Saufeder, Hirschfänger and Federspiel . P. 109.
  2. ^ Rückert, Peter: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages . P. 140.
  3. ^ Rückert, Peter: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages . P. 248.
  4. ↑ Feisel, Reinhard (among others): Saufeder, Hirschfänger and Federspiel . P. 97.
  5. ↑ Feisel, Reinhard (among others): Saufeder, Hirschfänger and Federspiel . P. 110.

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 59.8 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 13.9 ″  E