Allerburg (Dautphetal)

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Allerburg
View from the spur, on which the remains of the castle are suspected, to the Hünstein tower

View from the spur, on which the remains of the castle are suspected, to the Hünstein tower

Alternative name (s): Old hill
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, moat tracks
Place: Dautphetal - Holzhausen
Geographical location 50 ° 48 '10.8 "  N , 8 ° 32' 3.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '10.8 "  N , 8 ° 32' 3.6"  E
Height: 503  m above sea level NHN
Allerburg (Hesse)
Allerburg

The Allerburg even Alte Schanze called, is a suspected Outbound Spur castle , although not on the nearby Allerberg north of it on, but a few dozen meters Hünstein at about 503 meters above sea level in the Upper Lahn Valley to the southeast of the district Holzhausen the community Dautphetal in Marburg -Biedenkopf is located in Hesse .

history

In the former castle is probably a later formed medieval castle , built on the upstream spur summit (also Hünsteinklippe or Huns stone called) in the middle of a prehistoric fortification , the rampart Hünstein . Today traces of a neck ditch can still be seen.

Overlapping with the Hünstein ring wall mentioned above cannot be ruled out, as no findings are available to date. Already in 1858 by Georg Landau Allerburg and Hünstein were equated. Even Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner wrote about the Hünstein " ... also is there yet another entrenchment which consisting of wall and moat, an obtuse angle forms. Whether at these sites building, including a castle stood, is doubtful. According to tradition, as a result of the Dernbach feud , Landgrave Heinrich II of Hesse started building a fortress in the 14th century, but it was soon destroyed by the Lords of Nassau .

The area ( Hessian hinterland ) belonged as the district of Biedenkopf to the Hesse-Darmstadt territory until 1866 and from 1867 to the Kingdom of Prussia , the province of Hesse-Nassau , the administrative district of Wiesbaden . On July 1, 1974, it was merged with the Marburg district to form the new Marburg-Biedenkopf district. As a result of the changing responsibilities, the area was, for whatever reason, hardly examined archaeologically. From an archaeological point of view, it is still a “ white spot ” today .

Remarks

A mix-up with the as yet unexplored, presumably Celtic Daubhaus ring wall on the Daubhaus mountain 800 m to the south cannot be ruled out.

It is possible, however, that the facility was confused with the beginning of the Central Hessian Landheege , which consists of two landweists and whose inner hoe begins in the Allerberg area (northernmost point of the inner hoe), on the Holzhausen / Rachelshausen boundary. There was also an associated watch tower here , the remains of which are on a spur.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Janke: Inventory of the prehistoric and early historical monuments of Hesse, Volume II, Der Kreis Biedenkopf , R. Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1973, p. 18
  2. ↑ The article in the historical local lexicon Hessen (see web links) also places the castle on the Allberg, but correctly links the position to the Hünsteinsporn.
  3. ^ Entry on Allerburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  4. ↑ Georg Landau: Historical-topographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse and in the grand-ducal Hessian parts of the Hessengaue, the Oberlahngaue and the Ittergaue . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies - Seventh Supplement ; Verlag Fischer, Kassel 1858, p. 196
  5. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner: The desertions in the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse, Volume 1 , Darmstadt 1854, notes on p. 394
  6. ^ Knappe: Second supplement, p. 98

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Second addendum to the manual "Medieval Castles in Hesse" . In: Marburger Correspondenzblatt zur Burgenforschung , Yearbook of the Marburger Burgen-Arbeitskreis, Volume 3, Verlag des Arbeitskreis für Europäische Burgenforschung, Marburg 2003, p. 98.

Web links

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