Castle Ober-Beerbach

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Castle Ober-Beerbach
Alternative name (s): Beerbacher Castle
Creation time : unknown
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : unknown
Place: Seeheim-Jugenheim - Ober-Beerbach
Geographical location 49 ° 45 '49 "  N , 8 ° 40' 31"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '49 "  N , 8 ° 40' 31"  E
Height: 313  m above sea level NHN
Schlösschen Ober-Beerbach (Hesse)
Castle Ober-Beerbach

The castle Ober-Beerbach is can otherwise suspect when his name, not a castle , but a probably early medieval castle stables of a hilltop castle near the present district of Upper-Beerbach the municipality of Seeheim-Jugenheim in Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse .

Geographical location

The Burgstall in the summit is located west of the Ober-Beerbach district, southwest near the Ober-Beerbacher sports field and west of the L3098 state road from the Nieder-Beerbach district of Mühltal to Ober-Beerbach on the slope side of the Bergstrasse and south of the branching road to Seeheim between the two source streams of the Elsbaches east of the height of the cooling head at an unnamed height.

history

The complex is only indirectly documented through field names from the 16th century. In contrast to the other two castle stables in the Beerbach Valley, the Nieder-Beerbach Old Castle and the Old Castle , no folk tales are known about the castle itself . Even in the more recent castle literature, this is hardly discussed. It is unclear which and whether one of the proven noble families of Ober-Beerbach from this time, the Lords of Frankenstein , the forest masters of Gelnhausen or the Weitolshausen called Schrautenbach , is unclear due to the lack of documentary evidence. If attempts to assign the Beerbach Valley castles as predecessor castles to Frankenstein Castle should apply, then the predecessors of the Lords of Frankenstein would be considered the owners. The recently by historians conjecture expressed that the castles in Beerbachtal below the Frankenstein than previous castles and possible first ancestral homes of the suspected counts of Beerbach (Gerhard and his brother Heinrich) can be viewed and comes de Berebach as Carolingian Maingaugrafen can be assigned here but are not secured. At the same time, the castle would be the most distant predecessor from Frankenstein Castle, both in terms of time and space.

A smaller excavation by the Hessian Historical Society in 1877 was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, the castle is generally classified as of medieval origin. An interpretation as a Celtic refuge is denied because of its size. Another interpretation as a siege castle directed against Tannenberg Castle at the time of its conquest in 1399 is not considered convincing due to the distance of over two kilometers.

More recent archaeological investigations would be necessary, as many ancient or Celtic ramparts are known from the area. Eduard Anthes , prehistoric around 1900, assigned the complex to the Celts at that time. More recent assignments see it as the 11th century castle stables.

description

The facility is a regular oval of around 80 by 55 meters. Only the ring wall and the moat are partially visible today. Masonry is no longer visible. On the south side, the excavators believed they could find living spaces from 1877. The outlines of the complex can still be seen today by those who know about castles. However, the ring wall and moat are only clearly visible on the narrow sides. The "Schlösschen" is hardly known to the population today.

literature

  • Eduard Anthes: Das Schlösschen near Ober-Beerbach , in: Archives for Hessian History and Archeology, New Series: Volume 3, self-published by the Historical Association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, 1904, pp. 294–295
  • Hans Buchmann: Castles and palaces on Bergstrasse , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0476-4 . Pp. 60-62
  • Peter and Marion Sattler: Burgen und Schlösser im Odenwald , Verlag Edition Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 . P. 59 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Position according to the marking “Schlößchen” according to the labeling TK 1: 25,000 map .  In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Georg Windhaus, Eduard Anthes: Guide through the Odenwald and the Bergstrasse , Verlag Bergsträßer, 1906, p. 3
  3. ↑ Hans Buchmann: Castles and Palaces on Bergstrasse , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, pp. 53/61 f.
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Ober-Beerbach, Schlösschen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute