Winnau (desert)
| Wehnaw desert | ||
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 Overview of the site |
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| Alternative name (s): | Winnau | |
| Creation time : | before 1354 | |
| Conservation status: | only the surface and the source are preserved | |
| Place: | Mengerskirchen | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 33 '33.4 " N , 8 ° 8' 0.8" E | |
| Height: | 410 m above sea level NN | |
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Winnau is the deserted village of the medieval village Wehnaw that in the area of today's community Mengerskirchen in Limburg-Weilburg had lain. Today there is a holiday home of the parish of St. Johannes (Lahr Westerwald) on the site .
location
The desert is located between the elevations Nielstein, Seeköppel and Hillscheid in the area of the market town Mengerskirchen, Hesse, directly on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate on an open area 1.5 km off the main road L 3281 between Mengerskirchen and Elsoff . The Seeweiher Mengerskirchen is approx. 1.5 km to the south .
The desert extends over an area of 4.5 hectares.
In the past, the trade routes from Cologne to Frankfurt and from Herborn to Limburg cut in the market town of Mengerskirchen. The desert was part of the dominion of the House of Nassau , which built Mengerskirchen Castle.
history
The first evidence of the existence of the Winnau desert and the former village of Wehnaw (also: Wehnau, Winden) is the document from 1354.
The parish archive of Lahr, one of the oldest archives in the district, reports on the desertification in 1576. The transcript was made by the Calvinist pastor Eberhard Artopaeus at the time. He reports: "[...] to know that times ago this pastorey was part of [...] 4. Wehnaw [...] These villages and churches are now all partly disturbed and perished, partly decaying and falling into other hands."
This point says that the village of Wehnaw must have died out (extinct) before 1576, probably due to the plague that raged in the Mengerskirchen district . This clearly refutes the claim that the village was wiped out by the Thirty Years War .
A record of Pastor Artopaeus' predecessor, the Lutheran Pastor Joducus Schütz, shows that the villages of Lahr, Hintermeilingen, Ellar, Hausen, Fussingen and Waldernbach belonged to his office. Schütz reports that these branch communities had their own chapels in which he held services at certain times. In return, these chapel congregations made regular payments that were precisely recorded in the parish register. Until 1532, the church "Unter Merenberg", the Appen or Jakobskirche, belonged to Lahr as a parish vicarie, as well as the church between Waldernbach and Mengerskirchen, which was located on the lake pond that was dammed up in 1452. The village of Wehnaw, which had gone out, was also located here, and tithes were paid from its field property to the parish. The village has appeared in documents since the 14th century and it was not until 1850 that these tithes belonging to the parish were replaced by the municipality of Mengerskirchen.
There is a water source on the site that is still in use today. The chronicle of the volunteer fire brigade Mengerskirchen reports that the most important water supply in case of fire was the washing pond at today's playground, which was fed by the springs of the knots and the Winnauerberg.
The parish of St. John the Baptist in Lahr came to the property through an inheritance as a foundation for masses. The Lahr parish chronicle reports on two women from Wehnaw who, after a major plague epidemic that raged in the Mengerskirchen district , emigrated to the surrounding villages as some of the last inhabitants of the village. Many settled in the protection of the fortified market town of Mengerskirchen, only these two women still had relatives in Lahr and therefore emigrated there.
The parish of St. Johannes the Baptist Lahr made the land available to the neighboring farmers for cultivation until 1967. In 1967, Pastor Artur Reitz built a youth home on the site to provide the youth of the parishes in the pastoral area with an alternative room for religious youth education, as the local premises of the Waldbrunn parishes were insufficient. In the following years, the site was expanded through the purchase of land, so that today it has an area of almost 4.5 hectares of land.
In the following years the holiday home developed into a place for youth work in the pastoral area of Waldbrunn .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ oldest document from 1354 in the main state archive Wiesbaden, section 170, also contained in May, Territorialgeschichten des Oberlahnkreises, p. 33 above.
- ↑ John the Baptist Lahr: Festschrift zur Kirchenweihe, 1965, p. 7.
- ↑ parish registers Lahr.
- ↑ John the Baptist Lahr: Festschrift for the consecration of the church, 1965, page 7
- ↑ Mengerskirchen Voluntary Fire Brigade, Festschrift, p. 23.
- ↑ oral transmission by Rev. i. R. Artur Reitz, Hausen.