Gretenstein Castle

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Gretenstein Castle
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 Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '39.1 "  N , 8 ° 10' 34.5"  E
Height: 150  m above sea level NN
Gretenstein Castle (Hesse)
Gretenstein Castle

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.

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