Unterscheffach

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Unterscheffach
Municipality Wolpertshausen
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 28 "  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 58"  E
Height : 287 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 74549
Area code : 07907
The castle stables of the moated castle in front of the All Saints Chapel, on the right above the incision of the Heinlesklinge
The castle stables of the Wasserburg in front of the All Saints Chapel, on the right above the incision of the Heinlesklinge
The All Saints Chapel in Unterscheffach is one of the oldest churches in the area

Unterscheffach is a hamlet in the municipality of Wolpertshausen in the Schwäbisch Hall district in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg .

Unterscheffach is located in the southern tip of the Wolpertshausen municipality in the valley of the northwest flowing lower Bühler , which is cut almost 150 meters deep here opposite the Haller level (in the narrower sense) in the southwest and its part Ilshofener level in the northeast. The place with its less than fifty houses is mostly to the right of the river, on both sides of the village stream, which reaches it from the plateau around Wolpertshausen-Reinsberg through the steeply incised Heinlesklinge in the Upper Muschelkalk on the lower slope and then flows into the Bühler. On the left bank of the river there are only two houses at the foot of the slope and the Leonhardsmühle estate close to the river bankthat generates electricity today. From this side the Greutbach flows , which also runs from the plateau in the southwest around Schwäbisch Hall-Otterbach over a steep blade cut into the upper slope.

The hamlet, which is mainly built on the debris cone in front of the Heinlesklinge, runs through the Bühlertalstraße K 2667 from Ilshofen - Oberscheffach to Wolpertshausen- Cröffelbach , which is called Kirchstraße in the local area, to the right of the river at the foot of the lower slope . It is cut here by the Brückenstraße , the K 2568, which descends into the valley from Schwäbisch Hall-Otterbach in the south-west on the Haller level and crosses the river at the mill. After the crossing, she climbs the other side of the slope in the direction of Wolpertshausen- Reinsberg .

The old All Saints Chapel with its wooden tower structure is located on the south-eastern edge of the village, a little above Kirchstrasse . Beyond the thoroughfare, a small depression in the valley indicates the location of the former Unterscheffach moated castle , of which nothing else has been preserved. A castle probably used to stand northeast of the village on a spur of the plateau next to the Heinlesklinge. Above the lower serpentine of the road from Reinsberg to the west-north-west of the place on a south-west spur of the plain around Reinsberg are the ditches and rubble heaps of another castle stable.

history

Older mentions name the place (initially not differentiated from Oberscheffach) as Scefowe (1085), Nidern Scheffauwe (1364) and Undern Scheffau (1399), later it is also called Unterscheffau. The local aristocratic family von Scheffau initially stood mainly as a feudal relationship with the Limpurg taverns . A Marholdus de Scheffovve is mentioned as early as 1078 , the local All Saints Chapel in 1414. In 1421 Hans Wegner von Scheffau donated the early mass there. The castle of the local aristocrats was probably the Unterscheffach moated castle on the southern edge in the deep Bühleraue, which, however, does not fit well with the other statement that it stood "on an eastern hill from Unter-Scheffach". According to the measuring table sheet from 1937, there was also a castle northeast of the hamlet and on the left side of the Heinlesklinge near the upper bend of the Bühlertal slope and high above the hamlet. Later, the imperial city of Hall and the citizens of Hall acquired goods and rights in Unterscheffach.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geography according to the State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information ) ( detailed map ).
  2. ^ History based on the section on the Unter-Scheffach parcel in the Wolpertshausen chapter of the description of the Hall Oberamt from 1847.
  3. ↑ Unterscheffach - Wohnplatz , page of the regional historical information system www.leo-bw.de on Unterscheffach.
  4. ↑ Meßtischblatt 6825 Ilshofen from 1937 in the Deutsche Fotothek .

Web links

Wikisource: Unter-Scheffach  - in the chapter on Wolpertshausen of the description of the Oberamt Hall from 1847