Hausen Castle (Oberaula)

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Renaissance castle Hausen, with north portal

Schloss Hausen is a castle in the Hausen district of the north Hessian municipality of Oberaula in the Schwalm-Eder district .

prehistory

The village of Hausen was first mentioned in a document in 1160. There had been a moated castle of the Fulda Abbey since at least the 13th century , on the remains of which the Barons von Dörnberg built their renaissance castle in 1674.

In 1311, Abbot Heinrich IV of Fulda assigned the knight Wernher von Lebenstein a hereditary loan for the Hausen castle in order to be able to better counter the influence of the Counts of Ziegenhain , who were canons of Fulda, in matters of Fulda. At the same time, the village of Hausen received “city justice”. In 1339 the lords of Vinken were appointed castle men in Hausen. After this Werner von Falkenberg , from 1374 to 1382 Oberamtmann of Mainz over all possessions of the archbishopric in Hesse, Thuringia, Westphalia, Saxony and the Eichsfeld, was enfeoffed with castle and office Hausen. In 1356 Otto der Schütz , son of the Hessian landgrave Heinrich II , devastated the village during a feud between the landgrave and the Fulda abbot Heinrich VII von Kranlucken .

From 1366 the Counts of Ziegenhain were co-owners. In 1400 Abbot Johann I von Merlau sold the Fulda part of Hausen to the Archdiocese of Mainz , which Werner von Schlitz called Görtz appointed bailiff. In 1425 Kurmainz pledged the castle to Werner von Schlitz, who later sold his rights to the Schengwalt gentlemen.

After the death of the last Count of Ziegenhain, Johann II. , In 1450, the Ziegenhain half was transferred to the Landgraviate of Hesse as a fiefdom , which later also gained sovereignty over the Mainz half. In the years 1461–1463 the castle came into the possession of those von Dörnberg , who are the owners to this day. It was the Upper Hessian court master Hans von Dörnberg, previously bailiff of the widow of the last Count of Ziegenhain, who took over the Hausen Castle and the Mainz part of the Oberaula court in 1461 from Archbishop Adolf II as pledge and on October 30, 1463 as a permanent loan took possession.

At the time of the Reformation and the Peasant Wars 1524–1526, the Wasserburg Hausen had three drawbridges : one each to the north, south and west.

Around 1600 the castle was rebuilt into a Renaissance castle, which was captured, destroyed and completely looted by Bavarian troops in the Thirty Years' War in 1642. The castle walls still show the traces of the destruction. On the three meter thick foundation walls you can see the starting points of the new masonry, which is much weaker. The reconstruction in its current form was completed in 1687 by Johann Kaspar von Dörnberg.

Construction of the renaissance castle

About a quarter of a century after the end of the Thirty Years War , the castle was rebuilt. A more homely Renaissance building with large windows was added to the old fortification in the north. The three drawbridges were renewed. The year 1687 above the portal of the main entrance marks the completion of the restoration work.

In the course of the castle renovation, the moats were also renewed and a stone building was built in the forecourt as a residential, fruit, brewing and baking house.

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Hausen Castle is known as the birthplace of Wilhelm von Dörnberg , who was born here in 1768.

After the Second World War, Hausen Castle served numerous relatives of the von Dörnberg family as a refuge and residence. At the moment the castle is only inhabited by the von Dörnberg family.

The palace garden should also be mentioned. 30 m high ash trees , ancient chestnut trees , spruces , elms , red beeches and willows form a thick wall of leaves around the castle. To the south of the palace, a fountain is laid out in the palace park , which shows the year 1748.

Today only a castle pond and a stream are evidence of the former moat of the moated castle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family seat of his family was Falkenberg Castle near Wabern .

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. 157.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 282f.
  • Chronicle of Hausen, 1992

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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 37.7 "  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 27.7"  E