Immenhausen Castle

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Immenhausen Castle
Former castle courtyard

Former castle courtyard

Alternative name (s): Pascheburg, Emmenhusin
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall foundations
Place: Immenhausen
Geographical location 51 ° 25 '39.2 "  N , 9 ° 28' 42.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '39.2 "  N , 9 ° 28' 42.5"  E
Height: 247  m above sea level NN
Immenhausen Castle (Hesse)
Immenhausen Castle

The castle Immenhausen , even Paschenburg called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on a flat spur at 247  m above sea level. NN west of the church in the small town of Immenhausen in the Kassel district in Hesse .

location

Immenhausen Castle is located in northern Hesse about twelve kilometers north of downtown Kassel on the southwest slope of the Reinhardswald . As a city ​​castle , it served to secure the place. Their remains are now west of the town church of St. George .

history

The Owl Tower with city wall (southwestern direction), the western entrance to the village in the middle of the picture, the former castle area begins on the right edge of the picture (north)

A noble family of Immenhausen was mentioned as early as 1123 with Burgrave Dudo de Emmenhusen at the Mainz castle Rusteberg in Eichsfeld . The family died out as early as 1189. It is still unclear whether she could be the builder of the castle.

The castle must have existed before 1282, because it was named in a dispute with Kurmainz that year . 15 years later, the Hessian acquired Landgraf Henry I of Count Otto of Everstein the Office Grebenstein , gave the place Emmenhusin 1298 city rights as in a document dated November 2, 1298 can be seen, leaving in 1303 to build the site as a city, secure and renew the castle . Hans von Stockhausen or Heinrich von Uffeln are documented Hessian castle men.

As early as 1385, on July 19, Mainz troops conquered the place and destroyed the castle. The place and the city ​​wall were rebuilt, but the castle itself remained in ruins and was later completely demolished.
In the meantime the foundations of the castle have been uncovered on the castle stables .

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites . 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 16.

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