Zoighe
The Zoighe desert is located in the area of the municipality of Anrode in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .
location
The former place was about one kilometer southwest of Bickenriede on the eastern roof of the Upper Eichsfeld on the southeastern edge of the Eichsfeld . At an altitude of about 340 m, the place probably had no source or stream; it is not known whether the ditch running in a depression carried water in the Middle Ages. Immediately to the south there is another ditch, the Spittelsgraben, and the Mühlhäuser Landgraben runs behind it . To the west, a small wood, the Eichholz, borders the deserted site, behind which is the Wilhelmswald . The former state road 2035 from Bickenriede to Struth led south past the place.
History of the settlement
There is only one written mention of the village of Zoighe from 1317. At that time Heinrich von Tastungen sold a hoof in campetis quodam ville dicti zöghe with a small forest (oak) to the Anrode monastery . Probably not long after that the place fell into desolation. The residents moved to Bickenriede and continued to cultivate the land from where it was still possible to prove the district until the separation in the 19th century.
Remnants of buildings can no longer be traced, but numerous fragments of ceramic shards, hollow bricks and stove tiles were found, which suggest settlement from the 12th century.
Archaeological finds in the area
The former village was at a fork in two paths that crossed here coming from Bickenriede and Anrode Abbey. In Bickenriede there was a medieval village fortification, the gate on the way towards Zoighe was called Zietor . Another path led further south to the Mühlhäuser Landgraben. There was a waiting tower, the so-called goat tower, of which there are no structural remains. The name of the tower was probably also derived from the village name.
A fourth path, the Wahlweg or Wallweg, led into today's Wilhelmswald, which was only planted in the 19th century. The name Wahlweg already suggests a former hill fort. At the eastern edge of the Wilhelmswald there is evidence of a high medieval hill fort or castle site. The system has a diameter of about 40 meters, with a wall and ditch that is only flat and an inner surface of nine meters. There is another rampart in front of it, in the direction of Zoighe the entrance to the castle could have been. No archaeological finds have been made so far, and documentary evidence is missing. It is not known to what extent the castle was connected to the village, which is only a kilometer away, nor is it known which owner it had. The following noble families were wealthy in the immediate vicinity: the eunuches of Mühlhausen, the Counts of Gleichen and the von Tastungen family.
literature
- Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : The desert areas of the Eichsfeld: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of justice and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, pp. 1059-1060
- Rolf Aulepp: Medieval desertification in the Eichsfelder part of the Mühlhausen district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte, ed. Pedagogical District Cabinet Worbis, Eichsfelddruck Heiligenstadt 1989, Issue 4, pp. 348–351
Individual evidence
- ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 1060
- ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, p. 38
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 56.8 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 48.4 ″ E