Old castle house Schrecksbach

Old castle house Schrecksbach
Alternative name (s):	Old castle, Langenstein castle seat
Creation time :	around 1580
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	Receive
Construction:	Sandstone
Place:	Schrecksbach
Geographical location	50 ° 50 '1.7 "  N , 9 ° 17' 13.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '1.7 "  N , 9 ° 17' 13.9"  E

The so-called Old Castle House , and Old Castle or Langenstein shear castle seat called, is a castle house in Schrecksbach , the nucleus of the community Schrecksbach in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

Street side

history

The castle seat probably had a predecessor on the Schrecksbacher Kuppe (field name Gontzenburg ), which is about 1.2 km east of Schrecksbach.

The aristocratic seat was built between 1580 and 1592 as a castle seat of the noble family von Langenstein called Gonzenrod, possibly as a replacement for a previously inhabited older castle seat on the Schrecksbacher Kuppe (field name Gontzenburg) 1.2 km east of the village. Since Schrecksbach had become the southern border town of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel opposite the Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 , the place was fortified in the following years by defensive structures and castle-like aristocratic seats.

The castle house is also said to have been the center of a system of underground passages that was created during this time and connected at least three of the four noble residences in the place. In the Thirty Years' War this tunnel system villagers said to have saved his life. On Christmas Day 1635, the emperor's Croatian mercenaries invaded the village, plundered and pillaged. A number of the residents are said to have escaped into the corridors between the cellars of two castle seats, others fled to the crypt under the church, according to ancient traditions.
The tunnel system, if there was one, has not been accessible for generations, but in the basement of the old castle house the entrances to at least three corridors (or further cellar vaults) are still visible, framed with heavy sandstone blocks and lined with field stones.

After the von Langenstein family died out, the castle seat and the property belonging to it came first to the landgrave's court master Ludwig von Harstall , and then around 1715 to a branch of the von Haxthausen family . After the death of Elisabeth von Wrede, b. von Haxthausen, the landgrave chief magistrate von Schreyvogel acquired the castle seat. In 1750 this included around 150 Casseler acres of land, around 50 acres of meadows, 17 acres of gardens and 211 acres of forest and the Losenmühle. In 1813 the estate complex was bought by General August von Marschall from the Electorate of Hesse, who owned it until 1828. After that, the Lords of Dalwigk were owners. In 1861 the property came into state hands, was split up and sold to private owners.

Todays use

The castle house is now used as a restaurant with a vaulted cellar and beer garden .

description

The castle-like, two-storey building with an attached, round stair tower on the northwest side as well as the courtyard wall and gate is in the southern part of the center of Schrecksbach, at Immichenhainer Straße 5. It is made of solid sandstone , with a rectangular floor plan of about 20 × 17 m side length, and has a tent roof .

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 . P. 164f.
• Karl-Heinz Schwarz: The four castle seats in Schrecksbach , yearbook for the Schwalm-Eder district, vol. 5 / 1979. pp. 115–118

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ 1561 is also mentioned as the year of construction.
2. ↑ The Gonzenrod, called by Langenstein, are mentioned as early as 1569 as the owners of two castle seats with associated buildings and an open courtyard in Schrecksbach ( "Langensteinscher Burgsitz Schrecksbach, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)
3. ↑ The Secret Remains Hidden , in HNA, August 20, 2010

Web links

• Langensteinscher castle seat Schrecksbach, community Schrecksbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Schrecksbach, community of Schrecksbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).