Trautberg

Trautberg Municipality of Castell Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 2 ″  N , 10 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	268 m
Residents :	11
Postal code :	97355
Area code :	09325
Location of Trautberg in the Casteller municipality

Trautberg is a district of the municipality of Castell in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

The hamlet is located in the extreme northwest of the Casteller municipality. The Rüdenhausen market begins to the north, and Wiesenbronn lies to the west . The courtyards are lined up on the KT 10 district road . East of Trautberg is the Geiersmühle , in the north the Gründleinsbach flows past.

The closest larger cities are Kitzingen, about 12 kilometers away, and Volkach , about 15 kilometers away.

history

The history of the hamlet begins in the 10th century. At that time the place was called "Trutberg", which indicates a pagan cult site, a mountain of the Druids . According to other interpretations, the name goes back to the Middle High German word trust for familiar. Trautberg could then be identified as a familiar mountain. Perhaps this first mention only referred to the mountain of the same name.

The village soon came into the possession of the Counts of Castell and became the core property of the County of Castell . The castellers repeatedly used the estate as a widow's residence. The count's sheep farm also sat there. In the Casteller deed of division of 1258, grapevines are reported that grew around the village. In 1453 the village was not listed on a wild ban map of the counts, but the place will still have existed.

In 1582 the Trautberg was given its own district. On a representation from the year 1700, Trautberg can be seen with a mill. The so-called Grünewaldsmühle and the stately sheep farm still existed in 1719. In addition, the Count's Wasenmeisterei was housed there before moving to today's forester's house. Around 1808 the hamlet was inhabited by only three families. Until the 1970s, a children's home of the Rummelsberg Institutions was housed in the old sheep farm .

Culture and sights

Trautbergshöfe

For centuries, the center of the village of Trautberg consisted of two courtyards, which for some time were also used as widows' homes for the count's family. Both were first mentioned in 1558 and divided between two tenants that same year . One of the two farms soon acquired the rule and in 1617 Countess Juliana zu Castell, née Countess zu Hohenlohe, lived in the property. The Rodamer family acted as tenants at this time. As early as 1719, one farm was described as abandoned.

Countess Juliana lived in the farm for only one year and then moved to the other. She lived there until 1672 and then sold the farm to the estate manager Georg Grubert. In the years that followed, the property changed hands more frequently, so at the end of the 17th century the Albrecht family owned the Trautbergshof. The mayor and innkeeper Leonhard Göllner sat there between 1737 and 1765 . His son passed the farm on to his daughter's husband, Georg Leonhard Beyer, under whom the farm was rebuilt.

In the 19th century the property was expanded to include additional outbuildings such as a cattle shed. In 1869 the house was extended by one storey. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Lösch family owned the farm. On September 29, 1933, the National Socialists declared the Trautbergshof a so-called hereditary farm . Starting in 1944, the family leased the facility to various holdings that farmed here. The Lösch family sold the farm in 1968. The property has now been converted into a residential building.

legend

The Trautberg is said to have originally been a witches' square. At the foothills of the Steigerwald and its mountain ranges, the wind was particularly strong, so that the fields were often hit by so-called wind breaks or camp crops on stormy days . If this wind break happened while the grain was in bloom, it could happen that the ears could not be fertilized and the harvest was poor.

In Trautberg, the witches explained the windbreak and the fruitless stripes in the fields . They practiced landing with their brooms on these “Schleifen”. The witches are only said to have disappeared when bells rang for the first time in the Münsterschwarzach monastery .

literature

• Elisabeth Kramer, Jochen Kramer: Casteller house chronicle . Neustadt an der Aisch 2000.
• Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Steigerwald cultural guide. Documentation of an old cultural landscape . Dettelbach 2003.
• Theophil Steinbrenner, Gerhard Wahler, Auguste Steinberger, Felix von Fokczynski (eds.): Intermediate lights. Traditional stories from the old county of Castell . Albertshofen² 1979.
• Karl Treutwein : From Abtswind to Zeilitzheim. History, sights, traditions . Volkach 1987

Web links

Commons : Trautberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Raftopoulo, Wolf-Dieter: cultural guide Steigerwald . P. 79.
2. ^ Kramer, Elisabeth (among others): House Chronicle Castell . P. 274.
3. ^ Treutwein, Karl: From Abtswind to Zeilitzheim . P. 236 f
4. ^ Kramer, Elisabeth: House Chronicle Castell . P. 277.
5. ^ Kramer, Elisabeth: House Chronicle Castell . P. 278.
6. ^ Kramer, Elisabeth: House Chronicle Castell . P. 279.
7. ↑ Steinbrenner, Theophil (ed., Among others): Zwischerlichten . P. 88.