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Ginsburg
Ginsburg ruin with a keep-like main tower from the 20th century, seen from the southwest

Ginsburg ruin with a keep- like main tower
from the 20th century, seen from the southwest

Alternative name (s): Ginsberg Castle
Creation time : 11./12. and 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : High nobility (Counts of Nassau)
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Hilchenbach
Geographical location 50 ° 58 '27.1 "  N , 8 ° 8' 42.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '27.1 "  N , 8 ° 8' 42.7"  E
Height: 587.6  m above sea level NHN
Ginsburg (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Ginsburg

The Ginsburg is the ruin of a high medieval hilltop castle in Hilchenbach district base in North Rhine-Westphalia Siegen-Wittgenstein .

The Nassau castle was built in the early 13th century on the remains of a previous building. Until 1360, the Ginsburg changed hands several times through inheritances, pledges and divisions. It gained particular importance in 1568 when William I of Orange-Nassau planned his campaign to liberate the Netherlands from Spanish rule at the castle . In the 17th century the castle fell into ruin, the remains of which were uncovered and restored in the 1960s . Today the complex with the round tower, which was rebuilt in the course of the restoration, is an excursion destination and lookout point. The interior of the tower is used as a ballroom and wedding room as well as for courses.

Geographical location

The Ginsburg ruins are in the south of the Rothaar Mountains , which are part of the eastern wing of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . The ruin is located in the district of the Hilchenbacher Dorf Grund , which extends about 900 m (as the crow flies ) west-southwest of the ruin in the Insbach valley. In the Siegerland it was part of the Rothaargebirge Nature Park, which was founded in 1963 and merged into the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge Nature Park in 2015 .

The peak Burg is on the top of the rock in the vernacular Geisenberg said Castle Hill ( 587.6  m above sea level.  NHN ), largely from graywackes slate is geomorphologically and a inliers and outliers is. Its neighboring mountains are: Hüttenberg ( 626.9  m ) in the north-northeast, Pfaffenhain ( 658.5  m ) in the east, its western summit Giller ( 653.7  m ) and Gillerturm in the east-southeast, Hitzige Stein ( 564.5  m ) in the south-southwest, Eiserhelle ( 460  m ) in the west and Kromberg ( 523.3  m ) in the northwest.

To the northeast of the Ginsburg runs at an altitude of about 570 meters between the Schloßberg and the neighboring Giller Mountains, a saddle about 30 meters wide at its narrowest point , which merges into the Ginsberger Heide on the Giller, about 800 meters away . Already since about the 8th century, before the emergence of the Nassau Ginsburg, the Schloßberg, which was only later named, was in a strategically important location on the border between the rulers of the Saxons and Franks . The location on the hilltop allows a distant view of the surrounding Siegerland and the southern Sauerland up to the Kölschen Heck , historical border fortification between the Siegen area and the area dominated by the Electorate of Cologne , as well as the surrounding valleys. In addition, there was a crossing of several important old streets on the Ginsberger Heide before the Nassau castle was built . These highways and trade routes led over ridges from the Rhine-Main area in the south to the Sauerland in the north. The crossroads ( 563.9  m ) located about 100 m east-northeast of the Ginsburg near the south-western edge of the Ginsberger Heide lies on the Rhine-Weser watershed , which separates the catchment areas of the Rhine in the west and Weser in the east and, at the same time, the watershed of Sieg in the west and the Eder is in the east. The water of the Insbach , which rises southeast of the mountain, flows as a southeastern Ferndorfbach tributary over the Sieg into the Rhine, that of the east-swelling Kleine Wähbach drains as the Wähbach tributary over the Eder and Fulda into the Weser. The Eisenstraße, documented from 1345 onwards, leads across the Ginsberger Heide and the Rothaarsteig, which opened on May 6, 2001, over the crossroads as a hiking trail particularly on the main ridge of the Rothaargebirge ( Rothaarkamm ). Almost exactly below the intersection, the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway line runs through the 270-meter-long Schloßberg tunnel and the 508 federal road around the Schloßberg in a horseshoe shape .

history

Previous building and expansion of the castle

The construction of the hilltop castle is attributed to Count Heinrich II of Nassau . Presumably, however, he only initiated the further expansion of an existing castle complex. The work on this is estimated to be between 1220 and 1240 - the time of the Dernbach feud .

Archaeological finds have proven the remains of a presumably Iron Age ring wall on which the wall remains of a previous building from the 11th or 12th century are located. This is the foundation of a square tower castle with residential and defense character, which cannot be assigned to the Nassau house, but to the competing area of ​​Electoral Cologne or which was under Saxon- Westphalian rule and directed against the Siegen region. The lords of Wegebach, mentioned in a document as early as 1144, can be considered as the builders .

13th to 15th centuries, the castle as the seat of the court

The castle, built on the older foundations in the 13th century, also served the Nassau as a border fortress to secure their territory against the Counts of Wittgenstein and possessions in the Sauerland region. It was almost certainly mentioned for the first time under the name nowum castrum ("New Castle") in a document dated December 16, 1255, when the sons of Heinrich II., Count Otto and Walram von Nassau , divided Heinrich's inheritance among themselves, including the surrounding land and the castle. The designation of the castle as “new” is not interpreted as newly built, but as newly acquired.

Another document dated April 27, 1292 documents the pledge of the Ginsburg by Count Adolf von Nassau , who comes from the Walram line, to Archbishop Siegfried von Westerburg of Cologne . Count Adolf pledged it together with his other castles Nassau , Siegen and Dillenburg in order to receive the archbishop's vote in the election of the Roman-German king that same year . The name "Ginsberg", which is common today, is mentioned for the first time in this document. In a subsequent Nassau inheritance division in 1303, the Ginsburg became the property of Count Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen . A document dated February 13, 1345, with which one of Heinrich III's two sons, Count Otto II of Nassau , sold half of the “burch zume Gensberghe” to Archbishop Walram von Jülich , describes the structural condition of the complex for the first time. Your text mentions several towers, houses and gates, wells, fortifications, (train) bridges and a moat, as well as an enclosing wall . The freedom of the castle is also described. In the further course of the 14th century, several other changes of ownership and pledging of the castle took place until it finally remained in Nassau ownership from 1360 to 1806 through repurchase.

In 1384 King Wenzel had allowed the Counts of Nassau to set up a Femgergericht (“free chair”) on the Ginsburg. In 1389 he renewed this permit and set the scope of the Nassau Free County to the area between the borders of the rule Bilstein and the county Sayn . A Wynekin von Hilchenbach, whose office is occupied for the period from 1398 to 1416, is considered the first officially mentioned free count of the free court on the Ginsburg. The Oberfreistuhl Arnsberg revoked the permission for the Femgericht by decision in 1424, because the jurisdiction at the castle was not (any longer) part of the " Rote Erde " area of Westphalia .

Written sources report on construction activities for the entire 15th century, for example for the years 1463, 1469, 1488 and 1496. Construction work also took place on the Ginsburg in 1490, as the castle chapel was renewed in that year and then consecrated by the auxiliary bishop of Mainz . But a pastor Hermann was mentioned in a document as early as 1468/1469, which suggests that there was already a chapel in the castle at that time .

Portrait of Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau on the stained glass window The Liberation of Leiden in the Sint Janskerk in Gouda, the Netherlands
Excerpt from a historical report on Wilhelm I's campaign in the Netherlands in 1568

Importance in the 16th century

The Ginsburg has a special significance from a historical point of view: In April 1568 Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau (called "the silent one") met his officials, officers and Dutch loyalists on the Ginsburg to discuss a possible campaign with them to advise against Spain. In 1572 he gathered the troops of his army on the Ginsberger Heide in order to leave for Friesland and liberate the Spanish Netherlands , from which the Union of Utrecht emerged in the course of the Eighty Years' War in 1579 .

The oldest surviving pictorial representation of the Ginsburg dates from 1580: It is depicted on a route map by geodesist Markgraff from Frankenberg, which describes the route from Kirchhundem to Ginsberg.

Modern expansions and decay

From the middle of the 16th century to the early 17th century, expansion work was carried out on the buildings of the Ginsburg in several phases; the first of them in 1523. For the year 1588, in which the castle was put into a state of defense because of fears of incursions by Spanish troops into Nassau areas, repairs to the ramparts are documented, followed by construction work on the residential building and main tower in 1592/1593. In 1603 the drawbridge of the Ginsburg was renewed.

After the death of Johann VII von Nassau-Siegen in 1623, the Ginsburg came as heir to Wilhelm von Nassau-Hilchenbach , who wanted to expand it into his residence. However, this failed because of the estimated cost of around 4,000  guilders . Instead, Count Wilhelm acquired the castle seat of the Wischel von Langenau family in Hilchenbach, which was later named Wilhelmsburg after him . In 1683, Count Wilhelm Moritz von Nassau-Siegen had the last repair work carried out on the Ginsburg in order to counteract its further deterioration. These had to be stopped after the Catholic branch protested against it.

The castle complex lost its military importance from around the end of the 17th century, fell into disrepair and was largely forgotten. To the writer and scientist Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling , born in 1740 , the Ginsburg was only known as a ruin in the middle of the 18th century.

The Prussian forest administration, owner of the property in the 19th century, had the remains of the castle walls and vaults , which had been decimated by stone robbery, filled in in the 1880s and the castle area leveled by the Hilchenbacher Beautification Association. Nevertheless, the ground plan of the castle complex remained recognizable, and the provincial building officer Hartmann from Münster had it measured in 1883. The first excavations took place in 1887, which were followed by further excavations in 1910, but were quickly abandoned. In 1931, the Siegerland Heimatverein had the Schlossberg examined according to plan and carried out another excavation campaign, during which the senior teacher Hermann Böttger was only able to roughly determine the layout of the complex. On the occasion of Wilhelm I's 400th birthday, the Siegerland Heimatverein had an iron memorial plaque erected on the Ginsburg two years later in autumn 1933. From 1961 systematic excavations took place, which were carried out by the Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V. were initiated.

Remains of the castle complex, excavation finds

Site plan of the ruins dating back to the 13th century; Results of the excavations in the 1960s (as of 1984)

buildings

The castle complex is oriented in a south-west-north-east direction and its shape is based on the topography of the site. The core castle , measuring around 80 × 50 meters, is surrounded all around by a sole ditch that is now continuously green with a steep embankment on both sides that is seven to ten meters wide and up to nine meters deep. To the southwest of this is the outer bailey with a rectangular building made of quarry stone, which was rebuilt in the 1980s and houses the castle tavern. There is also a reconstructed half-timbered house of historical value. It is a former hammer trades house by Busch Gotthard cabins , part of Angsleah , there was added was and houses a Jugendbegegnungsstätte. A newly built wooden bridge, which replaces a drawbridge suspected at this point, leads from the outer bailey to the only entrance on the west side of the inner bailey.

Replicas of the nave and castle house , view from the northeast

The floor plan of the outer ring wall has an asymmetrical, roughly pentagonal shape with a strong, roughly quarter-circle rounding in the northeast. Inside this wall are the reconstructed foundation walls of a tower-like building and a residential building known as a long house , on the southern longitudinal wall of which the remains of a well can be found. In the south and east, the courtyard is bounded by an inner curtain wall that is half-open to the northeast , which together with the outer curtain wall forms a kennel in the south . In the east of the courtyard are the foundations of one from the 11th / 12th. Century-old residential tower on which a 16.5 meter high, three-storey observation tower stands. The yellow plastered round tower has a circumference of about 35 meters and a diameter of 11.20 meters. Its clear width is 2.70 meters. It was probably around 30 meters high in the past.

The remains of the tower-like building, also known as the castle house , are located in the western corner of the castle courtyard. A small, right-angled courtyard adjoins its walls with an almost square floor plan. Its north-west and south-west side are bounded by the outer ring wall and were protected by a parapet walkway, which was also laid out at right angles . From there a staircase leads to a well house, the north-west corner of which is taken up by a three-quarter- round flanking tower . Inside the well house there is a well shaft excavated to a depth of 16.5 meters (status from 1981).

Archaeological finds

In addition to the ruins of the buildings, the excavation work carried out in the 1960s yielded a number of objects found in the ground. These include high and late medieval , painted fragments of clay from stove tiles, pots and a coat of arms; Furthermore, fragments of two probably early modern Siegburg beakers decorated with a chest medallion , remains of weapons and tools, fittings attributed to the drawbridge, a large number of crossbow bolts and arrowheads, and several coins. One of these coins is made from sterling silver and was found in 1965. It is dated to the late 13th century and comes from the Siegen mint of the Archbishop of Cologne, Siegfried von Westerburg. The amount of finds in the ground totaled more than 400 kg of material made of iron, clay and glass. Part of it can be seen in a showcase in the main tower.

Todays use

Ballroom in the tower

In 1961, the Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg, founded in Siegen on November 18, 1960, closed. V. signed a license agreement with the former district of Siegen and the North Rhine-Westphalian state government to expose, secure and restore the remaining masonry of the ruin. After the excavation work was completed, the three-meter-high stump of the main tower was rebuilt from rubble stones in 1967/1968 and provided with a viewing platform. The work was financed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Siegen district, the city of Hilchenbach and private donations and amounted to 713,000 DM by 1984  . On the second floor of the Ginsburg tower, the city of Hilchenbach set up a branch of its registry office designed as a ballroom, where weddings can be carried out in the summer months . The third floor received a modernly equipped room for various events, including school lessons and seminars. There is also a castle tavern on the site of the former bailey.

Since November 22nd, 2008, in addition to the historical ruins, the new tower has also been entered in the list of monuments of the city of Hilchenbach . It was renovated from 2009 to 2010, the interiors were renovated. The current owner of the Ginsburg is the Siegerländer Burgenverein e. V., organized by the Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg V. is supported.

Possibility of viewing

The viewing platform of the castle tower, from which one looks down to the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway line with the train station in the village of Vormwald and across to a small part of the Breitenbachtalsperre , offers a panoramic view of parts of the Rothaargebirge, Siegerland and southern Sauerland. In particular, the nearby villages of Vormwald and Hilchenbach behind can be seen in the northwest between mountains . The village of Grund can just be made out over the treetops . On days with particularly clear visibility, the view extends as far as the Siebengebirge and the Hohen Acht ( 747  m ) in the Hocheifel, 103 km to the southwest .

Artistic reception

Half title of the first edition by Henrich Stillings Jugend from 1777, with an artistic interpretation of the ruin (anonymous engraving )

Since the late 18th century, with a focus on publications in the 19th century, the Ginsburg has been the subject of literary and pictorial representations on several occasions. The most prominent example is the first part of the autobiography of Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling, Heinrich Stilling's youth , who was published in 1777 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In this work, which anticipates the Romantic era , the castle ruins, which are mentioned in the book Geisenberger Schloss , play a central role. For the family of the protagonist, the romantically depicted ruin represents both a personal place of pilgrimage and a stylized symbol for their own mood and for the transience of life.

“One hour south-east of this place is a small village of Tiefenbach, so-called from its location between mountains […]. Down on the northern mountain, called the Geisenberg, which rises like a sugar loaf against the clouds, and on the top of which are the ruins of an old castle, there is a house where Stilling's parents and ancestors lived. "

- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling : Henrich Stillings youth. A true story . Berlin / Leipzig 1777.

In the 19th century, several poets of at least regional importance created poems about the Ginsburg, including the Netphener poet Katharina Diez ( Auf der Ruine Ginsberg , 1847) and the Prussian politician Heinrich von Achenbach , who, under the impression of a visit to the ruins in 1850, wrote his poem Ginsberg and reason wrote.

“Up there on the hilltop, surrounded by the oak grove,
testifies to bygone times, crumbled rock;
now the thistle is rocking her head in the hurrying wind -
towers, walls and knights have long since disappeared. "

- Heinrich von Achenbach : Ginsberg and reason

The picturesque depictions of the castle include a watercolor pencil drawing by the German landscape painter Heinrich Stein from 1840 and a picture from around 1860 by the regionally known Dillnhütten-Geisweider painter Wilhelm.

literature

  • Andreas Bingener : "... as sii zom Gintzberg gemurt hant". Everyday life at Ginsberg Castle in Nassau in the 15th and 16th centuries . In: Siegerland . Volume 78, Issue 1, 2001, ISSN  1435-7364 , pp. 3-24.
  • Jens Friedhoff : Theiss Burgenführer Sauerland and Siegerland. 70 castles and palaces . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1706-8 , pp. 72-73.
  • Philipp R. Hömberg: Hilchenbach. The Ginsburg . In: The Siegen-Wittgenstein district . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1092-6 ( Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany . Volume 25), pp. 127–129.
  • Gerhard Scholl: Ginsberg Castle - from the past and present of a Siegerland weir system . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen (Westphalia) 1964.
  • Gerhard Scholl: The Ginsburg - from the past and present of a Siegerland high fortress . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Ginsberg and Siegen 1967.
  • Gerhard Scholl: Ginsburg - castle and ruin between yesterday and tomorrow . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen / Hilchenbach 1981.
  • Alexander Wollschläger: The Ginsburg in Hilchenbach-Grund (= Westfälische Kunststätten . Issue 32). Westfälischer Heimatbund, Münster 1984
  • Alexander Wollschläger: Ginsburg - Nassau border forts in the mosaic of the landscape . Vorländer, Siegen 1979.
  • Alexander Wollschläger: Living history at the Ginsburg. A prominent route point on the Rothaarsteig . In: Yearbook Westphalia . New episode No. 59, 2005 (2004), ISSN  0724-0643 , pp. 186-187.

Web links

Commons : Ginsburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Main data on Ginsburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on September 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  3. ^ Gerhard Scholl: Ginsburg - castle and ruin between yesterday and tomorrow . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen / Hilchenbach 1981, p. 5.
  4. ↑ a b Gerhard Scholl: The Ginsburg - From the past and present of a Siegerland Höhen-Veste . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Ginsberg and Siegen 1967, p. 8.
  5. ↑ a b Gerhard Scholl: Ginsburg - castle and ruin between yesterday and tomorrow . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen / Hilchenbach 1981, p. 6.
  6. ↑ a b Die Ginsburg on Hilchenbach.de ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 20, 2010.
  7. ^ Jens Friedhoff: Theiss Burgenführer Sauerland and Siegerland. 70 castles and palaces . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1706-8 , p. 72. Older publications give 1234-1250 as the construction period.
  8. ↑ a b Lothar Irle: The Siegerland and Westphalia . Verlag Weyandt, Hilchenbach 1967, pp. 18-19.
  9. ^ Jens Friedhoff: Theiss Burgenführer Sauerland and Siegerland. 70 castles and palaces . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1706-8 , p. 72.
  10. ↑ Alexander Wollschläger: The Ginsburg in Hilchenbach-Grund . Westfälischer Heimatbund, Münster 1984 ( Westfälische Kunststätten . Volume 32), p. 9.
  11. ↑ a b c Gerhard Scholl: The Ginsburg - From the past and present of a Siegerland high fortress . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Ginsberg and Siegen 1967, p. 9.
  12. ↑ a b c d Alexander Wollschläger: The Ginsburg in Hilchenbach-Grund . Westfälischer Heimatbund, Münster 1984 ( Westfälische Kunststätten . Volume 32), p. 10.
  13. ↑ Alexander Wollschläger: Ginsburg - Nassau border forts in the mosaic of the landscape . Vorländer, Siegen 1979, no page number.
  14. ↑ Gerhard Scholl: The Ginsburg - from the past and present of a Siegerland high fortress . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Ginsberg and Siegen 1967, p. 11.
  15. ^ Lothar Irle: The Siegerland and Westphalia . Verlag Weyandt, Hilchenbach 1967, p. 73.
  16. ↑ Author and date of production unknown. Reproduction of the report: “In 1568 the Dutch / and many honorable patriots in the Niderlanden / the first train / from Mr. Printzen […] uf the Ginßberg house in the Sigen rule / when all the colonels come together / advised in secret / and afterwards also effected . "
  17. ^ Adolf Müller: Milestones from the Siegerland past . In: Siegerländer Heimatverein (Ed.): Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1966 . Verlag für Heimatliteratur, Siegen 1966, p. 96.
  18. ↑ Gerhard Scholl: The Ginsburg - from the past and present of a Siegerland high fortress . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Ginsberg and Siegen 1967, p. 13.
  19. ↑ Walther Zimmermann , Hugo Borger (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 3: North Rhine-Westphalia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 273). Kröner, Stuttgart 1963, DNB 456882847 , p. 225.
  20. ↑ Gerhard Scholl: The Ginsburg - from the past and present of a Siegerland high fortress . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Ginsberg and Siegen 1967, p. 14.
  21. ↑ Gerhard Scholl: Ginsberg Castle - From the past and present of a Siegerland weir system . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen (Westphalia) 1964, p. 11.
  22. ↑ a b Jens Friedhoff: Theiss Burg leader Sauerland and Siegerland. 70 castles and palaces . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1706-8 , p. 73.
  23. ↑ a b c Philipp R. Hömberg: Hilchenbach: the Ginsburg . In: The Siegen-Wittgenstein district . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1092-6 , p. 127.
  24. ^ Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Ginsburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on September 7, 2016.
  25. ↑ a b Alexander Wollschläger: The Ginsburg in Hilchenbach-Grund . Westfälischer Heimatbund, Münster 1984 ( Westfälische Kunststätten . Volume 32), p. 5.
  26. ↑ Friedhoff does not write of wells in his publication, but of cisterns .
  27. ↑ Information on the information board in the entrance area of ​​the main tower
  28. ↑ a b Gerhard Scholl: Ginsburg - castle and ruin between yesterday and tomorrow . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen / Hilchenbach 1981, p. 7.
  29. ^ Description of the layout published by Gerhard Scholl in: Ginsburg - Castle and Ruin between yesterday and tomorrow . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen / Hilchenbach 1981, pp. 15-16.
  30. ↑ Alexander Wollschläger: The Ginsburg in Hilchenbach-Grund . Westfälischer Heimatbund, Münster 1984 ( Westfälische Kunststätten . Volume 32), pp. 18-19.
  31. ^ Excavation report in: Gerhard Scholl: Burg Ginsberg - From the past and present of a Siegerland weir system . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen (Westphalia) 1964, p. 14.
  32. ↑ Gerhard Scholl: The Ginsburg - from the past and present of a Siegerland high fortress . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Ginsberg and Siegen 1967, p. 16.
  33. ^ Page of the registry office of the city of Hilchenbach on hilchenbach.de ( Memento from May 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 20, 2010.
  34. ↑ The “Green Classroom” on the Ginsburg ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, 528 kB), accessed on September 20, 2010.
  35. ↑ siegen-info.de ( memento of January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 29, 2010.
  36. ↑ Gerhard Scholl: The Ginsburg - from the past and present of a Siegerland high fortress . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Ginsberg and Siegen 1967, p. 5.
  37. ↑ Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling: Henrich Stillings youth, youth, wandering and domestic life . Bibliographically amended edition. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 3-15-000662-7 , pp. 3-84.
  38. ^ Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling: Heinrich Stillings Youth in the Gutenberg-DE project
  39. ↑ Alexander Wollschläger: The Ginsburg in Hilchenbach-Grund . Westfälischer Heimatbund, Münster 1984 ( Westfälische Kunststätten . Volume 32), p. 6.
  40. ↑ Gerhard Scholl: Ginsberg Castle - From the past and present of a Siegerland weir system . Association for the Preservation of Ginsburg e. V., Siegen (Westphalia) 1964, p. 5.
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