Wartenberg desert
The hamlet known today as Wüstung Wartenberg (also Wartenburg ) in the urban forest of Weida , Greiz district in Thuringia, was a clearing settlement between Crimla and Nonnendorf that was abandoned in the 16th century .
location
At the highest point of the forest path between Crimla and Nonnendorf, coming from Crimla, on the right side, there were still hewn sandstones in the forest in the 1980s. Due to the intensive mechanical forest use after the fall of the Wall, there are no visible signs of a former development there today. The associated Wartenberg has a summit height of ( 328.4 m above sea level ) and with its southern part "Kalte Lehden" belongs to the municipality of Harth-Pöllnitz , the forest known as "Taubenholz" in the eastern part extends right up to Crimla.
history
The Wartenberg was first mentioned in a document in 1209. The forest on Mount Wartenberg belonged to a family of the same name, which in 1336 was still associated with a Gocze von Wartenberg .
The Weida bailiffs enfeoffed the nunnery Maria Magdalena zu Weida, founded by them in the late 13th century and belonging to the order of the Dominicans, with the district of Wartenberg. A homestead was built on the mountain, later known as the Vorwerk, where more settlers came. A small chapel was also built and handed over to the Mildenfurth canons to look after. In 1363, as punishment for the attacks by Hans von Wartenberg against the Cronschwitz nunnery, the Weidaer Vogt had Wartenberg Castle stormed and the surrounding village turned into a heap of rubble and ash. In the local chronicle of Crimla it is reported that the Wartenberg desert was already part of the Crimla manor before the Reformation and that 4 bushels of grain had to be paid annually to the Weida office and 3 bushels of grain to the Mildenfurth monastery for looking after the chapel .
As early as 1506, the place Wartenberg was considered abandoned. After the forest had been cleared, the soil was too dry and thus prevented agriculture and cattle breeding as well as further settlement. The Weidaer nunnery was also given up as a result of the Reformation in the middle of the 16th century and the property was sold. The Wartenberg was acquired by the city of Weida in 1542. On May 23, 1623, the annual interest payments to the Weida office and the Mildenfurth monastery were waived for the owner of the manor in Crimla, Ulrich von Dienstedt and his descendants.
The wood, which today still belongs to the city of Weida as an exclave, has a total area of 93 hectares and forms corridor 13 of the urban district. In the 20th century, an entrepreneur started operating a sand pit on the mountain.
Hans von Wartenberg (legend)
- In 1363 the owner of the castle, Hans von Wartenberg, got into all sorts of gossips with the nuns of the Cronschwitz monastery. Some said that he had pursued their morality, others that he wanted to set fire to the house over their heads in the manner of robber barons. However, the Vogt von Weida found it right to take care of the nuns and gave this to Herr von Wartenberg to understand his opinion emphatically. In the “Dürren Hain” of Mildenfurth, the knight who was already ambushing the nuns was taken prisoner by the Vogt.
literature
- The northern Vogtland around Greiz . A geographical inventory in the area of Greiz, Weida, Berga, Triebes, Hohenleuben, Elsterberg, Mylau and Netzschkau. In: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Ed.): Landscapes in Germany . tape 68 . Böhlau Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-412-09003-4 , Burkersdorf with Nonnendorf, since 1995 to Harth-Pöllnitz, district of Greiz, and Wüstung Wartenberg, since 1542 to Weida, p. 93 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Thurm: The Dominican nunnery Chronschwitz near Weida 1942
- ^ Helmut Weiser, Siegmar Goldhardt and Gerd Renner: 700 years of Crimla. 1987
- ↑ Weidaer Sagen , Kreismuseum Weida, issue 3, 1988
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '5.1 " N , 12 ° 1' 29.9" E