Rodersen castle ruins

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Rodersen castle ruins
Rodersen castle ruins, side view

Rodersen castle ruins, side view

Alternative name (s): Roderikessen
Creation time : 1180
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains, trench
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Wolfhagen
Geographical location 51 ° 22 '5 "  N , 9 ° 10' 11"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '5 "  N , 9 ° 10' 11"  E
Height: 220  m above sea level NHN
Rodersen Castle Ruins (Hesse)
Rodersen castle ruins

The castle ruin Rodersen , formerly called Roderikessen , is the ruin of a hilltop castle north of the town of Wolfhagen in the district of Kassel , Hesse ( Germany ).

Remnants of walls and foundations and the moat can still be seen from the 12th century castle . Your ruin is freely accessible.

Geographical location

The ruins Rodersen located in the Habichtswald Nature Park, not quite halfway straight line between Wolfhagen and Volkmarsen . It lies between the 4.6 km to the south central city of Wolf Hagen, the 2.7 km north-north-east located Wolfhager district Niederelsungen in whose district the ruins lies, and about 2 km north-north-westerly Volkmarser district Ehringen . It is located entirely in the Wolfhager area at around 220  m above sea level. NN directly east of the Erpe , through whose valley the Volkmarsen – Wolfhagen section of the Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar railway runs, and around 700 m east of the L 3075 state road that connects Wolfhagen and Ehringen.

The urban wasteland of Landsberg is located about 600 m west-southwest of the Rodersen castle ruins, which can be reached on foot from a parking lot located 1.5 km south-southeast of Ehringen on the L 3075 .

history

The "Roderikessen" castle was built around 1180/1200 under the feudal rule of the Archbishop of Mainz , probably to secure the Mainz claims in the border area with the then Thuringia of the Ludowingers . Around 1231 it was destroyed, together with what was then Landsberg, by the troops of Landgrave Konrad von Thuringia during his feud with Mainz . During the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession , it was finally destroyed around 1261 by Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse and then remained in ruins. Stones from the castle are said to have been built into the Niederelsungen church tower built in 1262.

In the years 1960 to 1972 the ruins of the now "Rodersen" castle were excavated.

In 2015, while digging a flood channel below the castle on the Erpe, workers came across a layer of burnt house clay. During the following investigations, medieval shards were found there, and when the surroundings were subsequently scanned from the air, ramparts of a settlement fortification from the 12th or 13th century were visible. The history of the desert is probably closely related to the castle. She was also called Rodersen.

Castle complex

From the castle of the former castle "Roderikessen" the foundation of the square are still residential tower - the keep situated 8 by 8 m in size toward the slope, parts of the outer wall, the remains of outbuildings and cellars and the moat present.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 34.
  • Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners , Paragraph VIII: Rodersen, Verlag JJ Bohné, Kassel 1839, Volume 4, pp. 285–290
  • Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies (ZVHessG):
  1. Rudolf Haarberg, “The excavations at Rodersen Castle. Aim and organization of the excavation. ”In: ZVHessG 84, 1974, p. 123
  2. Gerhard Wittenberg, "The Rodersen Castle and its owners." In: ZVHessG 84, 1974, pp. 124–141
  3. Wilhelm Pickel, “The excavations at Rodersen Castle. The topographical-geological conditions. ”In: ZVHessG 84, 1974, pp. 142–144
  4. Werner Most, “The excavations at Rodersen Castle. The structural findings. ”In: ZVHessG 84, 1974, pp. 145–154
  5. Karl Heinz Schier, “The excavations at Rodersen Castle. Eisenfunde. “In: ZVHessG 84, 1974, pp. 155–159
  • Gerhard Wittenberg: “The Waldeck village of Ehringen in the 12th and 13th centuries; at the same time the history of the Erpe valley with Landsberg and Rodersen. ”In: Mein Waldeck (1984), H. 17, August 25, 1984; No. 18 of 7 September 1984.
  • Hans-Georg Stephan: "The urban wasteland Landsberg near Wolfhagen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district." In: Hessian Academy of Research and Planning in Rural Areas , Kassel, annual edition, Volume 9, 2001 (2000), pp. 54–67,
  • August Bitter: "The urban desert Landsberg near Wolfhagen." In: Hessischer Gebirgsbote , Volume 96 (1995), 2, pp. 62–63.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sensation: Discovered a city near Wolfhagen that is over 800 years old. December 24, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The castle is wrongly assigned to Ehringen (Volkmarsen) in the neighboring Waldeck-Frankenberg district .