Stahlnhain
The Stahlnhain desert is a former village in the area of today's town of Neu-Anspach . The village existed between the 11th and 14th centuries in the Stahlnhainer Grund, located in the valley of the Erlenbach below the Klingenberg . Today the former place is a few hundred meters northwest of the Hessenpark open-air museum .
Stahlnheim is first mentioned in a document in 1370. In a document dated November 11, 1370, the knights Franke and Walther von Cronberg pledged half of Altweilnau and a large number of other places in the Hintertaunus , including Stalhayn, to Count Gerhard von Dietz and his wife Gertrud. Further documentary mentions were made on May 26, 1373 and August 7, 1376.
At this point the place must have existed for a long time. From the settlement history of the Taunus and from broken fragments it is assumed that it was founded during the second clearing period in the 11th to 12th centuries.
The place consisted of ten to twelve courtyards. In addition to agriculture, iron processing was the economic focus, as the name of the place suggests. Stahel refers to the Middle High German "stâl" (steel armor, iron tool).
At the end of the 14th century, the village was mentioned in local documents. For example, Stahlnheim is missing from the document from 1393, which records the damage caused by the troops of the city of Frankfurt am Main during the siege of Hattstein Castle . At this point in time, an independent town of Stahlnhain no longer seems to have existed and the area of Stahlnhain has become part of the Anspach district.
In Stahlnhain Grund, a number of mills on the Erlenbach remained even after the fall of Stahlnhain. Even if the place was abandoned, the name was handed down as a name for a farm in the 16th century.
In 1985 and 1986 there was an excavation on the site of the desert. The remains of five buildings were uncovered in the excavation cuts.
The forest area name Kirchenborn is possibly derived from the field name Kirchwies and indicates the location of the church of Stahlhain.
literature
- Eugen Ernst : The Stahlnhainer mills; in: Eugen Ernst and Heinz Reitz, Mühlen in Geschichte und Zukunft , Hessenpark, series of publications by the Hessian Open Air Museum, issue 8, Neu-Anspach 1991, pp. 92–94.
- Eugen Ernst: Neu-Anspach. Becoming and working. Neu-Anspach community, Neu-Anspach 1974, pp. 397–412.
- Hermin Herr: Lexikon vom Hohe Taunus, 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 , p. 105
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermin Herr: Lexikon vom Hohe Taunus, p. 65
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ' N , 8 ° 31' E