Settlement on the Mohli

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The settlement on Mohli (also settlement on Mannlehen , historically probably: Schwarzach ) is a desert near the Benedictine monastery Münsterschwarzach in the area of ​​the district of the same name of Schwarzach am Main in the district of Kitzingen . The settlement was built next to the early medieval monastery as a settlement for employees and traders. It was probably given up in the course of the construction of Stadtschwarzach in the 13th century.

Geographical location

The settlement area comprises areas between the Main in the west and the area of ​​the monastery in the east. Today the bus stop of the Egbert-Gymnasium and a large public parking lot can be found here. In the West today runs State Street in 2271 to the settlement place over, while in the east continue to the stone wall of the monastery Münsterschwarzach starts. An access road to the state road divides the former settlement area into two halves. The settlement area is noted as a ground monument .

history

The former settlement, which was probably named after the Schwarzach monastery during its existence, is now in the Mohli or Mannlehen corridor . Probably people who were oriented towards the monastery lived here from the Carolingian period . The Via Regia , coming from Schwarzenau on the other side of the Main and connecting Swabia with Saxony via Schweinfurt , ran north of the village . The village was directly affected by the regionally important road Kitzingen –Münsterschwarzach– Volkach .

The population had no access to the Main , because the district of the neighboring Gerlachshausen was put in place immediately west of the village between the river and the settlement on the Mohli. Therefore, mostly craftsmen, farmers and servants of the monastery were suspected here. During excavations in 1966 and 1967, the remains of the village were found and a bronze sewing needle, pottery shards, animal bones, house clay and iron slag from the 9th to 11th centuries were excavated . The discovery of a silver obol from around 1030 was particularly significant .

The reasons for the abandonment of the settlement are unclear. Burkard Bausch mentions the Mannlehen in his monastery chronicle from the 17th century , but refers to its use as arable land. The settlement on the Mohli may have been abandoned because the ongoing floods of the Main made it impossible for the community to flourish. Perhaps in this connection the planned layout of the town of Schwarzach further south, which could now accommodate the monastery staff, also played a role. Only in 1339 and 1342 were a few houses built around the Münsterschwarzach monastery.

literature

  • Franziskus Büll: The Monastery Suuarzaha. A contribution to the history of the Münsterschwarzach women's monastery from 788 (?) To 877 (?) . Münsterschwarzach 1992.
  • Adelhard Kaspar: Find a Würzburg early coinage (after 1030) . In: Society for International Monetary History: Monetary News 5th Jhg. July 1970. Frankfurt am Main 1970. pp. 159-160.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Büll, Franziskus: Das Monasterium Suuarzaha . P. 18 (map).
  2. ^ Büll, Franziskus: Das Monasterium Suuarzaha . P. 65.
  3. ↑ See: Kaspar, Adelhard: Find an early Würzburg coinage (after 1030) . P. 159 f.
  4. ^ Büll, Franziskus: Das Monasterium Suuarzaha . P. 66.

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 14.2 "  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 39.7"  E