Ulberg

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Ulberg is a desert in the area of ​​the city and the district Volkach , immediately east of the district road KT 10. The village was probably inhabited until the 17th century, before the residents moved to the nearby city. The reasons for this are unclear.

Geographical location

The place where the village was located is in the south of the Volkach municipality. The corridor Ölgrund and the small brook Ölberggraben are reminiscent of the former village. The Mainfranken barracks and the Halbmeilensee are a good 800 meters to the north, the Strehlhof is just under two kilometers to the east and Eichfeld is further away . In the south is Dimbach . The so-called wine island begins to the west . The site of the former village is classified as a ground monument by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation.

history

The place name of the settlement with the ending -berg refers to a foundation in the 8th or 9th century. Ulberg is thus a late foundation of the Franks advancing towards the Main , who built the village on the so-called Heiligenberg. The prefix Ul- comes from Middle High German and means a damp, musty surface, a swamp. The settlement was built on the mountain and was surrounded by a swampy area.

The place was first mentioned in 1289, when the village was called Uleberch and belonged to Count Friedrich von Castell , who expanded Ulberg together with the young town of Volkach. A few years later, in 1295, Ulberg came to the St. Markus monastery in Würzburg . Again the village changed hands when the nearby Münsterschwarzach monastery acquired the bailiwick of the settlement on behalf of the Duchy of Würzburg.

At the end of the 14th century, a Casteller Zehnthof becomes tangible in Ulberg. It was acquired by the Würzburg Monastery in 1514 . In 1520 the village went to Bishop Konrad von Thüngen for 4,300 guilders . The town of Volkach later received the settlement, which was probably largely abandoned at the beginning of the 17th century. The name "Oelberg" has been handed down from 1611, and by 1624 at the latest there were no more residents in the village of Ulberg.

literature

  • Gerhard Egert: The place names as a historical settlement source. Situation structure and interpretation . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Volkach. 906-2006 . Volkach 2006. pp. 11-16.
  • Gerhard Egert: The Ulberg desert . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst. Vol 37 . Würzburg 1985. p. 136 ff.
  • Fridolin Friedrich: The dispute over the oil ground . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1978-1992 . Volkach 2008. pp. 64-67.
  • Erwin Riedenauer: Desolation between the Main and Steigerwald . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research. Vol. 47 . Würzburg 1987. p. 47 , accessed on August 8, 2017.
  • Peter Rückert: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages in the Franconian Gäuland. Diss . Wuerzburg 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egert, Gerhard: The place names as a historical settlement source . P. 15.
  2. ^ Rückert, Peter: Land expansion and desertification of the high and late Middle Ages . P. 261.
  3. ↑ Friedrich, Fridolin: The dispute over the oil ground . P. 64.

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 34.4 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 44"  E