Cleeberg Castle

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Cleeberg Castle
Cleeberg Castle from the opposite Cleebaum Hill

Cleeberg Castle from the opposite Cleebaum Hill

Alternative name (s): Kleeberg
Creation time : before 1129
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Langgöns -Cleeberg
Geographical location 50 ° 26 '49.2 "  N , 8 ° 33' 36.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '49.2 "  N , 8 ° 33' 36.7"  E
Height: 290  m above sea level NHN
Cleeberg Castle (Hesse)
Cleeberg Castle

The castle Cleeberg is a castle in the eastern Hintertaunus and located in the center of the district Cleeberg the community Langgöns in the district of Giessen in Hesse .

history

The exact time the castle was built is not known. It was in 1129 first mentioned as a possession of the counts of Cleeberg, 1230 through inheritance as ganerbschaft . The keep of the fortified castle was first mentioned in a document in 1263.

In 1557 the castle complex with a castle-like main building in horseshoe shape was expanded into a residential castle and around 1700 by adding ancillary buildings, after the Landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt shared 2/3 and the Counts of Nassau 1/3 in 1648 . Hesse-Darmstadt ceded its share in the office and county of Cleeberg to Nassau in 1803, but not the castle property, and set up a forestry in the buildings. In 1845 the Cleeberg community bought the property and used it to set up a school. In 1855 and 1882, the dilapidated parts of the keep were dismantled and filled into the neck ditch . In 1968 the residential buildings were gutted. A hotel was operated in the newly divided rooms from 1970 to 1979. Cleeberg Castle has been privately owned by a community of owners since 1982.

investment

Floor plan of Cleeberg Castle from 1905 (the arrow here does not show N as north, but to the west)

The raised, roughly triangular base of the castle complex was formerly enclosed by a circular wall and shows the remains of a bailey . In 1900 one before the former was Palas situated smaller inner courtyard separated from the courtyard to the keep. Its access or driveway is via the former moat from the south. The horseshoe-shaped palace building is located at the northern tip of the complex. Its semicircle corresponds to the donjon, which is also semicircular towards the north, of whose previous height - over 33 meters as a stone tower plus around 9 meters of wooden structures - 20.60 meters are still left today.

literature

  • Helga Block: Die Burg Cleeberg , Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 205 (2006), pp. 1-3.
  • 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. 284.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 227f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , p. 298
  • Ferdinand Luthmer: The architectural and art monuments of the Wiesbaden administrative district. , Volume II: The architectural and art monuments of the eastern Taunus. Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1905, pp. 163–170 (unaltered reprint Martin Sendet, Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-253-02730-9 )

Web links

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