Vogelsburg (Volkach)

Vogelsburg City of Volkach Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 2 ″ N , 10 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	275 m
Residents :	13 (1987)
Postal code :	97332
Area code :	09381
	Location of the Vogelsburg (bold) within the Volkach municipality

Vogelsburg is a wasteland on the outskirts of the Volkach district of Escherndorf in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

The Vogelsburg is located in the west of the Volkach municipality. In the north, separated by the Main, lies the Elgersheim district on the driver . Astheim is further east , while the Main Canal Volkach and the city begin in the southeast . Nordheim am Main is located south of the Vogelsburg , and the Main flows between the districts. Escherndorf joins in the east.

The closest larger cities are Kitzingen , which is about 15 kilometers away, and Schweinfurt , which is 20 kilometers away. The next big city is Würzburg , about 19 kilometers away.

Naturally, the Vogelsburg lies in the area of the Volkacher Mainschleife , which is counted as a sub-unit of the Middle Main Valley of the Mainfränkische Platten .

history

The center of the district is the Vogelsburg monastery. This place was already settled in the Paleolithic and was used as a settlement place by different cultures in the following period. In the Bronze Age , the prominent point on the Main loop was converted into a fortification. With the Frankish settlement in the 5th century AD, the fortifications were expanded and converted into a royal court.

In the 9th century the estate was given away to the Fulda Abbey . The 11th century brought another change of ownership when the rising Counts of Castell seized the castle. Count Hermann zu Castell converted the complex into a monastery of the Carmelite Order in 1282. During the German Peasants' War in 1525, the buildings suffered so much that from then on the monastery was co-administered from Würzburg. With the secularization in 1803 it came into private hands and became part of the Escherndorf district.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the mountain and the monastery complex began to attract more and more day trippers from nearby Würzburg. The Vogelsburg, which was part of the Gerolzhofen district office , was given its own stop on the Mainschleifenbahn , which was closed again in 1922. Today, most of the buildings in the desert are part of the Juliusspital Würzburg Foundation . From November 2013 to July 2015 the Vogelsburg was modernized and converted into a hotel.

Attractions

Only a few sections of the ramparts have survived from the original, early medieval castle complex. The center of today's complex is the church of Mariä Schutz, whose roof turret dates back to the 18th century. In the hallway there are several wayside shrines and small memorials, most of which are from the 17th century. A footpath to Escherndorf leads through the steep vineyard slopes in the area.

The northern slopes of the Vogelsburger Flur, which are not covered by wine, are part of the Mainhang an der Vogelsburg nature reserve . The Vogelsburger Pforte is one of the smallest vineyards in the Franconian region.

literature

Herbert Meyer: The Vogelsburg - middle of a blessed landscape . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1993-2007 . Volkach 2008.
Herbert Meyer: From Gottesberg to the pearl of Franconia. The Vogelsburg in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1993-2007 . Volkach 2008.

Web links

Commons : Vogelsburg (Volkach) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987. Issue 450 of the articles on Statistics Bavaria. Munich November 1991, p. 366 ( digitized version ).
↑ Geography Giersbeck: Map 152 Würzburg , PDF file, accessed on January 10 of 2019.
↑ Meyer, Herbert: The Vogelsburg - middle of a blessed landscape . P. 40.
↑ See: Meyer Herbert: From Gottesberg to the Pearl of Franconia .

[1] Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987. Issue 450 of the articles on Statistics Bavaria. Munich November 1991, p. 366 ( digitized version ).

[2] Geography Giersbeck: Map 152 Würzburg , PDF file, accessed on January 10 of 2019.

[3] Meyer, Herbert: The Vogelsburg - middle of a blessed landscape . P. 40.

[4] See: Meyer Herbert: From Gottesberg to the Pearl of Franconia .