Bornighausen

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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 23 ″  E

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Bornighausen is a desert in the district of Wrexen in the north Hessian city ​​of Diemelstadt .

Geographical location

The place was about 213 meters above sea ​​level , west of Wrexen.

history

Bornighausen was mentioned in a document as "Borchartinchusz" in the period 1332-1344. Bornighausen Castle stood in the area of ​​today's desert .

The castle and town were owned by Heinrich von Eppe between 1332 and 1348 as a fiefdom of the Counts of Waldeck . The place and castle have completely disappeared today and little is known about their history.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3rd edition, Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 110
  • Gottfried Ganßauge, Walter Kramm, Wolfgang Medding: The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Kassel. New episode Volume 2: Circle of Twist. Bärenreiter, Kassel, 1938, p. 262
  • Heinrich Höhle: The submerged localities or Die Wüstungen in Waldeck , Bings, Korbach, 1931, p. 43

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Bornighausen (Wrexen district), Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 5, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. Documents on the history of the principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont, edited. by Louis Curtze, undated, copy in the service library of the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, pp. 39–50, no. 31, here p. 43