Alteburg (Kohden)

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Alteburg in Kohden
Creation time : 1000 to 1100
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Count
Place: Nidda - Kohden
Geographical location 50 ° 25 '22.8 "  N , 9 ° 0' 25.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '22.8 "  N , 9 ° 0' 25.2"  E
Height: 185  m above sea level NN
Alteburg (Hesse)
Old castle

The Old Castle is an Outbound hilltop castle on 185  m above sea level. NN in the Kohden district of the city of Nidda in the Wetteraukreis in Hesse , Germany. Only small parts of the rampart and moat as well as some wall remnants in the middle of a bird protection forest are still preserved from the complex, which was probably built in the 11th century by the Counts of Nidda from the Malsburg family on the summit plateau of the hill of the same name .

description

The castle is said to have served Count Berthold I of Nidda (* around 1110, † 1162) as a robber knight's nest around the middle of the 12th century . Berthold was by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa because of breach of the peace with the outlawed occupied and degrading punishment of dogs wearing sentenced. Berthold ignored the summons to Gelnhausen and the verdict and instead unsettled the area as a robber baron and highwayman . After all, he is said to have been forced to surrender and accept the punishment by an imperial contingent - according to legend, however, only after an attempt by his wife to save him in the manner of the Faithful Wives of Weinsberg had been discovered and thwarted.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmidt, Geschichte des Großherzogthums Hessen , p. 254.

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