Zell (Mainhausen)

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Zell is a desert in the district of Mainhausen in the southern Hessian district of Offenbach .

location

It is located at an altitude of 121 m above sea ​​level , 3 km south of Seligenstadt , northwest of Zellhausen in the field Zellweggewann .

history

The origins of the small town lie in a Heinrichsburg , an Ottonian low castle on what is now known as the cell hill or cell church , the traces of which were archaeologically excavated at the beginning of the 21st century and took up an area of ​​around 1.2 hectares.

The oldest surviving mention of the village of Zell comes from 1344. The document shows that Ulrich II von Hanau presented his newly founded chapel and its priests to the Archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg . The archdeaconate was an ecclesiastical middle authority in the area north of the Odenwald . It assigned this chapel to its district of Rodgau . The chapel was dedicated to Saints George and John the Baptist . It was a branch church first of Seligenstadt, later the St. Nicholas Church in Babenhausen . The church patronage remained with the Lords and Counts of Hanau . There was a pilgrimage to the chapel on St. Mark's Day (April 25).

From the fact that Ulrich II von Hanau presented his newly founded chapel to the archdeaconate in Aschaffenburg, it can be concluded that the place belonged to his domain, where he was part of the Babenhausen office . This means that it was originally owned by the Hagen-Münzenberg family . Adelheid von Munzenberg , daughter of Ulrich I von Munzenberg , married Reinhard I von Hanau before 1245 (the exact year is not known) . Among other things, she brought the Babenhausen office with her, which has belonged to Hanau since then , and with it Zell as well. The village belonged to the judicial district of the tithe Seligenstadt. When the County of Hanau was divided in 1458, the place fell to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg together with the Babenhausen office . With the Reformation in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg, the place became Lutheran .

It is not known when the village ceased to exist. At the latest with the demolition of the church, which took place either in 1816 or 1820, it fell into desolation.

The entire site is a designated soil monument and part of the Kurmainzer Herz cultural route of the Archaeological Spessart project

Historical forms of names

  • Cella (1344)
  • Tzelle (1353)
  • Celle (around 1400)
  • Cell (1474)
  • Tzelle (1480)
  • Cell (1498)
  • Celle (2nd half of the 15th century)

literature

  • Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hessen south of the Main (= writings of the Hessian State Office for historical regional studies. Vol. 29). Elwert in Commission, Marburg 1966, p. 161, (at the same time: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1965).
  • Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book. Volume 1: Starkenburg. Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse, Darmstadt 1937, p. 769 f.
  • Georg Schäfer: Offenbach district (= The art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. A: Province of Starkenburg. ). Bergsträsser, Darmstadt 1885, p. 247 f.
  • Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The former spiritual pens in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Volume 1: Provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse et al., Darmstadt 1873, pp. 260–262 .
  • Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner: The devastation in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Volume 2: Province of Starkenburg. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862, p. 216 ff. , (Reprint with a supplementary appendix by Friedrich Knöpp. M. Sendet, Wiesbaden 1969).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archaeological excavations on the Zellhügel , website of the Mainhausen History and Local History Association with further references; accessed on June 9, 2020
  2. ↑ Both details are competing in Zell (Wüstung), Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Jury for the Hessian Monument Protection Prize 2017 visits excavations. Zellhügel is a special ground monument on Seligenstädter Heimatblatt from May 17, 2017; accessed on June 9, 2020
  4. ^ Kurmainzer Herz , website of the Archaeological Spessart Project www.spessartprojekt.de ; accessed on June 9, 2020


Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 10.8 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 51.5 ″  E