Stürzelheim

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Stürzelheim (also Sterzelnheim, Stirtzelenheim or Störzelheim ) is a deserted area in the urban area of Rosbach vor der Höhe in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

Geographical location

The place was located between the present-day localities Rodheim , Köppern and Burgholzhausen , 9.5 km southwest of Friedberg . The gently sloping terrain above the Erlenbach is on the Weinstrasse , an old trade route that passed the settlement in a north-south direction. In Rodheim today the Stürzelheimer Straße reminds of the desert.

history

The oldest mention of Stürzelheim comes from the year 1324. Further documentary mentions were made in 1356 and 1390. Most of the time, there are mentions of a knight dynasty resident here, which, like many of the region's lower nobility, named itself after the ancestral seat. After their extinction, Count Reinhard II von Hanau gave the fief to Henne von Bellersheim in 1446 .

The place fell in desolation as early as the end of the Middle Ages , as evidenced by a document from 1560. In it, the residents of Rodheim ask the Hanau Count to be allowed to plow the desert areas in the Stürzelheim district. In the Thirty Years' War lists made for the distribution of costs of war only the Stürzelheimer yard and the associated call Dick mill as a possession of the Lords of Bellersheim. Count Philipp Reinhard von Hanau enfeoffed Adolph von Haxthausen with half of this farm in 1696.

Local nobility "von Stürzelheim"

A lower noble family is first recorded for Stürzelheim in 1324 with Cune von Stürzelheim . Cuno von Stürzelheim is documented as the last representative in 1430. The lords of Stürzelheim can be traced back to the Burggrafschaft Friedberg as castle men . The property in the place, including probably an ancestral seat, whose moats are mentioned, then fell to the Lords of Bellersheim.

literature

  • Wilhelm Braun: Places and farms gone out in the Friedberg district. In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 1, 1952, pp. 1–26, here: pp. 23f.
  • Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The devastation in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Volume 1: The Province of Upper Hesse. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt 1854, pp. 345–347 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stürzelheim. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 18, 2018 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Braun: Outgoing places and courtyards in the Friedberg district. In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 1, 1952, pp. 1–26, here: pp. 23f.
  3. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The devastation in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Volume 1: The Province of Upper Hesse. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt 1854, pp. 345–347 .
  4. ^ Wilhelm Braun: Outgoing places and courtyards in the Friedberg district. In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 1, 1952, pp. 1–26, here: p. 24.

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 54.2 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 32.6"  E