Wintersbach (desert)

Wintersbach is a desert in the area of today's Sinntal municipality in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

The location of the former village is in the district of the district Blackrock suspected. The name forms Wimersbach (1366) and Winterspach have been handed down . The place belonged to the Altengronau court , which came to the Hanau rulership in 1333 as an imperial loan from an inheritance from the Rieneck family. The Schwarzenfels Office of the County of Hanau emerged from the court in the 15th century ; from 1459: County of Hanau-Münzenberg . The settlement still existed in the middle of the 15th century.

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. 366 , (reprint. Edited by Dieter Carl. Historical Edition Carl, Vellmar 1999).
Matthias Nistahl: Studies on the history of the Schlüchtern monastery in the Middle Ages (= sources and research on Hessian history. Vol. 65). Hessische Historische Kommission et al., Darmstadt et al. 1986, ISBN 3-88443-154-4 , p. 247, note 78, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1984).
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. 522.