Wikramshausen

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Wikramshausen is a deserted village in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

Geographical location

Wikramshausen lies at an altitude of approx. 100 m above sea ​​level, probably east of Dörnigheim . Dörnigheim is now a district of Maintal .

history

The oldest surviving mention of the place can be found as “Wicrameshusen” in the Lorsch Codex for the year 793. There it is listed as being in Maingau (in pago Moynachgowa). At that time a donated Wolfbodo the Lorsch Abbey property to Dörnigheim the locus Wicrameshusen between Braubach and Surdafalacha am Main .

Wikramshausen belonged to the office of Büchertal in the rule and later county of Hanau and was thus allodial property of the lords and counts of Hanau .

literature

  • Georg Landau : Historical-topographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse and in the grand-ducal Hessian parts of Hessengaue, Oberlahngaue and Ittergaue (= journal of the Association for Hessian History. Supplement 7, ZDB -ID 200295-4 ). Fischer, Kassel 1858, p. 378 , (reprint. Edited by Dieter Carl. Historical Edition Carl, Vellmar 1999).
  • Heinrich Lapp: Dörnigheim am Main. History of a village (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 16). Hanau History Association, Hanau 1952.
  • W. Mankel: A village disappeared from the ground: Groschlag. In: Hanau city and country. A home book for school and home. Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau 1954, pp. 353–354.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Vol. 14, ISSN  0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 217 (unchanged reprint, ibid 1974, ISBN 3-7708-0509-7 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. After Landau and Lapp, pp. 22–26.
  2. Codex Laureshamensis III, p. 135, No. 3452

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 12.8 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 29.5 ″  E