Lembach moated castle

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Lembach moated castle
Creation time : 2nd half of the 13th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of the moat
Standing position : Niederadel, local nobility
Place: Homberg (Efze) - Lembach
Geographical location 51 ° 2 '35.5 "  N , 9 ° 20' 44.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '35.5 "  N , 9 ° 20' 44.2"  E
Height: 196  m above sea level NN
Moated castle Lembach (Hesse)
Lembach moated castle

The moated castle Lembach was a small moated castle in Lembach , a district of Homberg (Efze) in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district, which was abandoned at the beginning of the 17th century .

Location and current state

The Burgstall is located on the north-western outskirts of the village in a now overgrown park at 190 m above sea level on the site of a Lembach mansion that was completed in 1606 and demolished in 1945 . Their moats were fed by the Lembach, which ran in a south-north direction immediately to the west . Two small ponds , presumably remnants of the castle moats, are the only remains of the complex today, which, however, has not yet been proven archaeologically .

history

Almost nothing is known about the history of the castle. It was first mentioned in a document in 1279 and was probably built by the local noble family of those von Lembach, who held the small town as an after-fief of the Lords of Falkenberg . The castle and its associated Well, landgräflich Hessian fief , changed the course of the following centuries several times their owners: Reinhard von Dalwigk (from 1421), Thile of weirs and its descendants (from 1461), the Colonel Georg von Habel (from 1602) and the Lords of Heßberg (from 1604). When the von Heßberg family had their manor house built on the site of the old castle between 1604 and 1606 , the castle had probably already been abandoned and at least partially decayed.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Lembach Castle, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 19, 2017 .

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literature

  • Waldemar Küther (arrangement): Historisches Ortslexikon Fritzlar-Homberg , Elwert, Marburg, 1980, ISBN 3-7708-0679-4 , pp. 183-184
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 96.
  • Heinrich Reimer (arrangement): Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen , Elwert, Marburg, 1974, ISBN 3-7708-0509-7 , p. 299