Sondheim (Mellrichstadt)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sondheim in the grave field
City of Mellrichstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 7 ″  N , 10 ° 22 ′ 57 ″  E
Residents : 309  (1987)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 97638
Area code : 09776
Sondheim im Grabfeld (Bavaria)
Sondheim in the grave field

Location of Sondheim in Grabfeld in Bavaria

Sondheim im Grabfeld is a district of the city of Mellrichstadt in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld ( Bavaria ).

Geographical location

The village is located in the Lower Franconian part of the Grabfeld directly on the border with Thuringia .

history

History up to the 16th century

The place Sondheim in Grabfeldgau was mentioned for the first time in 755 in a deed of donation to the Fulda monastery . In 867 the place is referred to in another document from the Fulda monastery as "Villa Sondheim in Pago Grabfeld". A clear assignment of other temporal mentions of places is difficult due to the possibility of confusion with the nearby Sondheim vor der Rhön .

After the rule of the Grabfelder Gaugrafen, the place came to the County of Henneberg at an early stage . With the division of Henneberg in 1274, Sondheim came to the Henneberg-Hartenberg line, which had its headquarters on the Hartenburg in nearby Römhild . Sondheim sold this together with his entire property to the Henneberg-Aschach line in 1371. With two inheritance divisions of the Henneberg-Aschach line in 1468 and 1532, the sovereignty of Sondheim came to Count Berthold XVI as part of the Römhild office . von Henneberg-Römhild , who sold his property to the Counts of Mansfeld in 1548 . They sold the office of Römhild with Sondheim in 1555 to the Ernestine Wettins .

16.-18. century

At the time of the Reformation in 1544, Sondheim parish in neighboring Berkach , which remained Catholic. The population therefore attended the services in Protestant Behrungen , which was noticed in 1555 during a visit. The church was built between 1606 and 1608. The place received its first pastor in 1618.

Due to inheritance divisions, Sondheim belonged to the following duchies as part of the Römhild office in the following period:

During the Thirty Years War , the Croats looted the place and burned it down. Only the church built in 1608 and a small house built in 1611 survived the destruction. After the death of the Duke of Sachsen-Römhild, the sovereignty of the Amt Römhild was divided between Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1/3) and Sachsen-Meiningen (2/3).

19th century to the present

The "cleaning contract" between the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and Saxony-Meiningen, which was signed on June 20, 1808, regulated the border between the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and the ducal Saxon-Meiningian and Saxon-Roman-Hilda area, with Sondheim in the grave field in exchange with Wolfmannshausen was ceded to Würzburg.

With the dissolution of the Rhine Confederation in 1814 and the resolution of the Congress of Vienna , most of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the community of Sondheim was created with the community edict of 1818 . From 1817 the place belonged to the Lower Main District , which was renamed Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg (later just Lower Franconia) in 1838 . Sondheim has been part of the Free State of Bavaria since 1918 .

After the Second World War, Sondheim was directly on the inner German border , which cut off the place from its historical roots in Thuringia due to the border security measures of the GDR . A border district built in the mid-1970s on the road to Berkach on the Thuringian side reminds us of this time as the “ Berkach border monument ”. On May 1, 1978, Sondheim in Grabfeld was incorporated into the city of Mellrichstadt.

lock

A document from 1379 proves the existence of a castle in the village. This was probably destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525. The nobles of Herbilstadt , who were owned by the "Henneberger Hof", were probably expelled.

Culture and sights

Religions

The Protestant church was built between 1606 and 1608. Between 1618 and 1975 the place had its own pastor. The Protestant parish church in the village belongs to the Mühlfeld parish in the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Bad Neustadt an der Saale .

In 1734 the "snail tower" was added to the west side of the church, which enables external access to the galleries and the church tower. The original baptismal font was replaced by a wood-carved baroque baptismal angel in 1688 . When an old bakery was demolished in 1955, an old Gothic baptismal font was found, which is now presented in front of the church. In addition to the oil-painted altarpiece, which shows a Christ on the cross, there is a large post-Gothic Christophorus mural on the south side of the nave.

Architectural monuments

→ List of architectural monuments in Mellrichstadt

traffic

Sondheim is on the federal motorway 71 , the next junction is the “Mellrichstadt” exit. The rest area "Mellrichstädter Höhe" is located near the village.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mellrichstadt then and now. A memory book on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the city uprising 1232/1233. (Ed .: Stadt Mellrichstadt, Ed .: Walter Graumann, Josef Kuhn), Richard Mack KG Verlag, Mellrichstadt 1983, p. 91 f.
  2. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 740 and 741 .
  3. ^ List of architectural monuments in Sondheim

Web links