Großer Gudenberg castle ruins

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Großer Gudenberg castle ruins
Creation time : documentary Mentioned in 1209
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Trench, wall and wall remains
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Zierenberg
Geographical location 51 ° 21 '59.6 "  N , 9 ° 16' 17"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '59.6 "  N , 9 ° 16' 17"  E
Height: 568.7  m above sea level NHN
Großer Gudenberg castle ruins (Hesse)
Großer Gudenberg castle ruins

The castle ruin Großer Gudenberg is the ruin of a double hilltop castle at 568.7  m above sea level. NHN high Great Gudenberg near Zierenberg in the Kassel district in North Hesse ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The ruin is located in the north part of the Habichtswald Nature Park on the Great Gudenberg, a heavily wooded basalt cone that extends 8.1 km northeast of Wolf Hagen and almost 2 km west of the central city of Zierenberg and about 2.7 kilometers east-southeast of the district Oberelsungen rises . To the east of the Großer Gudenberg, the terrain slopes down to the valley of the warmth . The castle ruins on the Kleiner Gudenberg are located about 470 m northwest , the Bärenberg tower is located on the Großer Bärenberg about 1.6 km south, the Falkenberg castle ruins are located about 2 km north , and Escheberg Castle is about 3.6 km north-northwest .

history

Coat of arms of Wolff von Gudenberg, one of the owners of the double castle

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1209, but was probably built at the time of the Hessian Count Werner IV . It was a Mainz fiefdom and owned by Messrs Groppe von Gudenberg and Wolff von Gudenberg . The castle was probably destroyed between 1269 and 1272 by the troops of Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse during his dispute with the Archbishop of Mainz, Werner von Eppstein . It is also possible that robber barons were the cause of the destruction. The tribe of the Bullhead von Gudenberg died out in 1398, while the Wolff von Gudenberg still exist today.

investment

The ruin is freely accessible, but can only be reached on paths and paths that lead up to the Great Gudenberg, some of which are steep. There are only remains of moats , walls and ramparts of the former castle . The almost rectangular complex to the north-east was the larger of the two castles and previously had the remains of a presumed keep and the remains of a palace wall . To the south-east was the somewhat smaller, almost circular complex of the second castle, of which no remains are visible above ground. The castles were separated by a ditch running in a northwest-southeast direction . Both castles were protected by a shared oval wall, which ran to the northeast at a greater distance from the double castle.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3rd edition, Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 27f.
  • Hans Magerstädt: The Gudenburgen near Zierenberg , in: Hessischer Gebirgsbote No. 70 (1969), pp. 11-13
  • Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners , 4th volume, JJ Bohné, Kassel 1839, p. 233ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ It is not clear whether these two families were related to each other and also to the Lords of Gudenberg, who were seated on the neighboring Kleine Gudenburg, or whether they were only common castle men and therefore related names.
  3. ↑ Georg Landau, The Hessian Knight Castles and their Owners , Volume 4, JJ Bohné, Kassel, 1839, p. 235
  4. ^ Rudolf Knappe: Palaces and castles in North and East Hesse , p. 14