Heidenkessel settlement
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Heidenkessel settlement
City of Tauberbischofsheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 48 ″ N , 9 ° 38 ′ 42 ″ E
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| Postal code : | 97941 |
| Area code : | 09341 |
 Junction from the L578, access to the Heidenkessel settlement
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The Heidenkessel settlement is a residential area as well as a former quarry , which is located in the Tauberbischofsheim district of Dittwar in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg . The historical "Heidenkessel" was a former, Celtic sacrificial site. The place is therefore already in the time BC. As settled.
location
The Heidenkessel settlement is located about one kilometer northwest of Dittwar on the edge of the Muckbach valley . After another kilometer in a northerly direction, the small settlement at Dittwar station follows , where the Muckbach flows into the Brehmbach . Tauberbischofsheim is located about three kilometers northwest of the settlement.
history
Early days
Prehistoric finds, including a sacrificial stone (eponymous for the "Heidenkessel"), indicate that today's settlement area dates back to the time BC. Was settled. The two Celtic highways Main-Neckar and Spessart-Hohenlohe met at the “ Wetterkreuz ”, which is two to three kilometers away. The sacrificial stone on the Heidenkessel was therefore probably of Celtic origin and part of a former place of worship.
middle Ages
Before the neighboring town of Dittwar became an independent parish in 1222, the Heidenkessel settlement was already inhabited, because the Dittwar Christians made pilgrimages to Bischofsheim (today: Tauberbischofsheim) at the church festivals and, according to tradition, were pelted with dirt by the pagans who lived there at the Heidenkessel.
Modern times
In the quarry at Heidenkessel, it was mainly the travertine stone that was mined in the 19th and 20th centuries (including by the company Zeidler & Wimmel ) . This stone was in demand for its durability. Travertine from Heide boiler was, among others, the construction of the Nazi Party building in Nuremberg and the town hall in Rio de Janeiro delivered. The Tauberbischofsheim-Dittwar-Königheim railway line was built between 1912 and 1914 due to this quarry and the necessary removal of the stones in demand. The lumps of stone were transported by horse and cart from the Heidenkessel to the Dittwar train station, about a kilometer away , where they were loaded onto freight trains. After the Second World War , work was carried out again for a short time in the quarry on the Heidenkessel before operations were finally closed.
Little is known about the nature of the historical "Heidenkessel". In 1864 this sacrificial stone was tragically blown up and used to build a railway bridge at Halbigsmühle. Historians believe that the Heidenkessel, in addition to the presumed shape of an altar, is the fact that the cauldron belonged to the rock under the entire hill to be more likely. It has been reported, among other things, that the actual "cauldron" in which sacrifices were made could be a smaller depression in a very large lump of travertine.
On January 1, 1975, the Heidekessel settlement was reclassified to Tauberbischofsheim together with the Dittwar community to which it belonged.
traffic
literature
- Manfred Maninger: Chronicle of the community Dittwar. Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e. V., accessed on February 16, 2017 (published in 1968, made available online by Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e.V.). (Section: B. The story, 5. Alt-Dittwar, Heidenkessel ).
Web links
- Heidenkessel, settlement on the leo-bw.de website
- Heidenkessel quarry (picture collection) from 1933 on the website hkvdittwar.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ LEO-BW.de: Heidenkessel settlement on the leo-bw.de website. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e. V .: Manfred Maninger - Chronicle of the community of Dittwar, 1968 . online at www.hkvdittwar.de. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 469 .
