Veherbronn

Veherbronn is a total devastation near Reichertshausen , a district of the city of Neudenau in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The place died in the 14th or early 15th century.

location

Veherbronn was about a kilometer west of Reichertshausen in the Ochsenwiesen .

history

Veherbronn was first mentioned in a document in 1328, when Albrecht von Hohenlohe testified that he had received the three hamlets of Richertshußen ( Reichertshausen ), Verherbrunnen (Veherbronn) and Luhtenwyler ( Leichtenweiler ) from his deceased first wife. In 1337 Albrecht transferred the three hamlets with all residents, property and rights to the Würzburg monastery , which his son had joined as a canon. These two documents are the only certain information about the existence of the places Leichtenweiler and Veherbronn, while Reichertshausen still exists today. The next documentary mention in 1473 already says that the fields of the two places were cultivated from Reichertshausen for at least one generation. It is believed that Leichtenweiler was abandoned before Veherbronn, as the Leichtenweiler corridor was first divided between Reichertshausen and Veherbronn before Veherbronn fell into desolation and the entire corridor came to Reichertshausen. In the course of time not only the places but also the hallways fell desolate. While in 1473 there were 130 acres of fields that belonged to Veherbronn, in 1542 only four acres were farmed. Only after the Thirty Years' War were the arable land partly cleared again.

The reasons for the abandonment of Veherbronn lie both in the plague that occurred several times in the 14th century and in the concentration of settlements in favor of the fortified village of Siglingen .

The location of the place can be localized via an old well, which was already mentioned in 1499 and of which it is said in a document from 1777 that it was previously in Veherbronnen, but is now located in the Ochsenwiesen , so that the place is probably in today's Ochsenwiesen district was located.

literature

• Hartmut Gräf: Siglingen, Reichertshausen, Kreßbach - Ein Heimatbuch , Neudenau-Siglingen 1978, pp. 158–166.

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 54.2 "  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 25.2"  E