Weingarten (desert)

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Weingarten (also Weingartshof ) is a deserted area in the district of Geiselwind in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen . The village was probably abandoned in the 15th century. The reasons for this are unclear.

Geographical location

The desert site is in the east of Geiselwinder Marktplatz on the southern slope of the Krackenberg. Today the last remnant is the Weingartsmühle, about 300 m southwest of the desert site. The field name Weingartsleiten and the Geiselwinder street names Am Weingart and Weingartsstraße are reminiscent of the former village. In the south today the Schlüsselfelder Straße leads past the desert area.

history

The place name of the desert refers to the old age of the settlement. It comes from the Middle High German word wingarte , which means vineyard or vineyard. Originally, viticulture was practiced here on the southern slope of the Krackenberg. Weingarten was probably created during the Carolingian expansion phase in the 8th or 9th century. The village was mentioned for the first time in 1123. Among the witnesses of a donation to the Bamberg monastery Michelsberg also appeared a man "de Vinea" (Latin from Weingarten).

In a document from the Benedictine convent of Kitzingen from 1316, "Wingarten" was mentioned again. Between 1317 and 1322 the cleric Gundelach de Windeheim owned a curia in "Wingarten". In the 14th century, the Cistercian monastery Ebrach was also wealthy here. In 1380 the knight Erkinger Zolner sold his fiefdom in the "village of Weingarten". The village was then in the hands of the Counts of Castell .

The village did not change hands until 1426, when Erkinger VI. von Seinsheim , later Freiherr zu Schwarzenberg, acquired the tithe in "Weingart" from the Casteller counts. Between 1498 and 1506, Hans von Schwarzenberg finally received the “wustung zu weingarten” from Count Georg zu Castell . So the village was already deserted. In 1506 Johann zu Castell renewed the fiefdom letter to the Schwarzenbergs.

On January 20, 1622, the so-called Weingarthshoff appeared in the sources for the first time. The settlement had probably shrunk to a single farm. A legend from this time also moved the castle of the Lords of Weingart to the place of the desert. However, in the 16th century, a nobleman from Weingarten , who came from a Palatinate family, had built properties near the former settlement by chance .

literature

  • Roderich Machann: Desolation in the Steigerwald. (= Mainfränkische Studien. Volume 5). Dissertation . Würzburg 1972, DNB 720279151 .
  • Wolf Dieter Ortmann: District of Scheinfeld. (= Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia. Volume 3). Munich 1967, DNB 457000929 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolf Dieter Ortmann: District of Scheinfeld. 1967, p. 211.
  2. ↑ Roderich Machann: Desolations in the Steigerwald. 1972, p. 170 f.
  3. ^ Wolf Dieter Ortmann: District of Scheinfeld. 1967, p. 211.

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 26.8 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 22.7 ″  E