Udenhausen (desert)

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Foundation walls of the church

Udenhausen is a former village settlement that fell to desolate towards the end of the 14th century in the area of Roßberg , a district of the municipality of Ebsdorfergrund in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf in Central Hesse .

location

The place was 1.5 km south of Roßberg, west of the state road L 3125 from Roßberg to Wermertshausen , at 354 m above sea level in a small valley in today's state forest Roßberg. The up to 1.25 m high wall remains of the former small church are located on a slight terrain spur immediately north of the former village settlement. In addition, the field name "Uthenheußer Wiesen" as well as many field relics that can be found in the surrounding forest area today, such as field terraces and piles of stones, remind of the abandoned village.

history

The village is first mentioned as Votenhusun around 1130 , ceramic finds from the 8th to 14th / 15th centuries . Century in the settlement area and in the corridor indicate however a much earlier settlement.

At the time of its first mention, the village and the tithe belonged to the Villication (Hofverband) Ebsdorf of the St. Stephan monastery in Mainz . From 1249 the income from the villication was leased to the Hessian landgraves . As a result, the Caldern Monastery and the Archbishopric of Mainz also acquired property and income in Udenhausen. The village was abandoned towards the end of the 14th century; in 1388 only one resident was named.

church

Sign at the stump of the church

Until the Marburg History Association carried out the first excavations in 1916, no structural remains of the settlement, which had been assumed to be there for a long time based on the field name "Uthenheußer Wiesen", could be seen. Excavations in 1916, 1961–1963 and 1986 brought to light the remains of a small hall church in addition to various ceramic fragments . The church interior was almost square, with an outer side length of only about 7.5 m. The interior was plastered. The entrance was a 1.3 m high monolith (probably a prehistoric menhir , see Menhir von Roßberg ) made of basalt , into which a door hinge was incorporated. Separated from the main room by a wall with a relatively narrow passage was an apse extension with a horseshoe-shaped floor plan, 6 m wide and 5 m deep; on the east wall of the apse was the no longer preserved altar substructure . The rubble stones around the ruins are not the original remains of the wall, but relics from excavations in the 1960s.

There are no written sources on church building. The simple floor plan indicates the Carolingian era . The church was originally a parish church, but was then parish to Ebsdorf from 1222 at the latest .

literature

  • Christa Meiborg: The church stump of Udenhausen. A deserted village near Ebsdorfergrund-Roßberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf district (= Archaeological Monuments in Hesse. Issue 123, ISSN  0936-1693 ). Department of Archaeological and Paleontological Monument Preservation in the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse and others, Wiesbaden, 1995
  • Werner Meyer-Barkhausen: Small Church Research in Hessen. In: Communications of the Upper Hessian History Association. NF Vol. 43, 1959, ISSN  0342-1198 , pp. 68-80, here p. 72 PDF .

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Other documented names were Uodinhusin and Uttinchusen (both 1222) and Westenodenhusen (14th century).
  2. ↑ The place name, which is based on the pre-Christian deity Odin / Wotan, also suggests permanent settlement before the Christianization of the area.

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 30"  E