Gretenstein Castle
Gretenstein Castle | ||
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Alternative name (s): | Gretchenstein | |
Creation time : | around 1350 | |
Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
Place: | Villmar | |
Geographical location | 50 ° 23 '39.1 " N , 8 ° 10' 34.5" E | |
Height: | 150 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Gretenstein , even Gretchen Stein called, is a Outbound hilltop castle about 1000 meters lahn down on a 150 m above sea level. NN high cliffs near the municipality of Villmar in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse .
The castle, the former location of which is not exactly clear, was built around 1350 under Philipp von Isenburg as a widow's seat for his wife Margaretha von Katzenelnbogen , from whom the castle was named Gretenstein (Gretchenstein). At the height of a conflict with the Villmar bailiffs, the castle was destroyed in 1360 by the Trier coadjutor Kuno von Falkenstein and not rebuilt. There are no remains of the castle.
literature
- Rudolf Knappe: Castles in Hessen , p. 430
- May: Oberlahnkreis , p. 244
- Augst Gerhardt: (The castle) Gretenstein . In: Land and People 1, 1925
- August Lorenz: The Destruction of the Gretenstein 1361 , In: Alt-Nassau 1916, No. 12
- Vogel: Description , p. 799f.
See also
Web link
- Gretenstein Castle, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Gretenstein Castle at karl-aumueller.de