Hundshausen Castle

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Hundshausen Castle
Alternative name (s): Fackenburg (1575), Fackenburgk (1579), Vockenburg (1580)
Creation time : 9th to 10th centuries
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: gone, wall and ditch remains
Place: Jesberg - Hundshausen
Geographical location 50 ° 58 '18.2 "  N , 9 ° 8' 50.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '18.2 "  N , 9 ° 8' 50.3"  E
Height: 280  m above sea level NN
Hundshausen Castle (Hesse)
Hundshausen Castle

The castle Hundhausen was a small moated castle near the town Hundhausen , in the municipality of Jesberg in northern Hesse Schwalm-Eder-Kreis .

location

The Burgstall is located at an altitude of 280 m, about 500 meters southeast of today's village in Wiesengrund, east of Hundshauser Water , which flows into the Treisbach south of Jesberg , and the state road L 3145 from Jesberg to Schwalmstadt .

description

The small castle, with a rectangular floor plan, was probably built in the 10th century and had ramparts and moats. Building foundations and trench remains were discovered in 1876. During further excavations in 1968 ceramic and brick fragments from the 10th to 15th centuries were found. It was a 45 × 21 step (about 34 × 16 m) large facility with an 8 foot (around 2.4 m) deep moat and a wall piled up on two sides of the facility, which dammed the dog house water and into the Moat headed. It is said to have been the fortified house of a certain Hunold, after whom the village "Hunoldeshuson" was named when it was first mentioned in a deed of donation from Emperor Otto I from 969.

It is not known when the castle was destroyed; it may have been in the Hessian fratricidal war in 1469 when the troops of Landgrave Ludwig II, who ruled in Niederhessen , burned down the cities of Borken and Schwarzenborn and destroyed the castles of Jesberg and Schönstein . In 1466 the castle still existed: On December 22nd and 23rd, 1466, Burkhard and Eckhard von Hundshausen were among the Hessian knights who, at a court day chaired by Count Wolrad I. von Waldeck and the knight Bodo von Rodenhausen, in a dispute between the Ganerbe of the Buseck Valley and the knight Gerhard Ruser von Buseck sat with us in court. Presumably these two are members of the noble family von Linsingen , named after their place of residence , who also owned Jesberg Castle.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Treisbach flows into the Gilsa on the northern edge of Jesberg .
  2. ↑ Hundshausen, at Castle Inventory ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgeninventar.de
  3. ↑ "Hundshausen Castle, Schwalm-Eder District". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 20, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ↑ Felix von Gilsa to Gilsa: Alstat, a castle of the hess. Count Werner von Grüningen. In: Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies: Messages to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Year 1876, 1st quarterly issue, pp. 14–15
  5. ^ Felix von Gilsa to Gilsa: Correction. In: Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies: Messages to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Year 1878, IV. Quarterly Issue, pp. 23–24
  6. ↑ lohra.wiki: "von Rodenhausen"

Web links

literature

  • Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten: Local history paperback for the Fritzlar-Homberg district, A. Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen, 1972
  • Otto Meyer: 1000 years of Hundshausen 969-1969 . Festschrift on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the first documentary mention of the Hundshausen community, 1969
  • Rolf Gensen: The low castle "Wall" near Jesberg-Hundshausen. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen: The Schwalm-Eder district. Theiss, Stuttgart, 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0369-5 , pp. 166-168
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 94.