Brandsburg

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Brandsburg
Manor house on the former Brandsburg (view from the southwest)

Manor house on the former Brandsburg (view from the southwest)

Alternative name (s): Brandburg
Creation time : before 1490
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Manor house with barn in a very dilapidated condition.
Place: Alten-Buseck
Geographical location 50 ° 37 '13 "  N , 8 ° 45' 4.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '13 "  N , 8 ° 45' 4.6"  E
Height: 219  m above sea level NN
Brandsburg (Hesse)
Brandsburg

The Brandsburg is a former moated castle in Alten-Buseck , a town in the municipality of Buseck in the district of Gießen in Hesse .

location

The former castle complex is located southwest of the town center at Brandgasse 14/16 and was once surrounded by a moat .

history

The Brandsburg was first mentioned in 1490 after members of the von Buseck family called Brand had given it up to the Hessian Landgrave and received a fief from him . The fiefdom of the Brandsburg usually also included a farm in Beuern .

The castle was demolished after 1730 and rebuilt on the old foundations in 1735 as a baroque mansion . The castle complex was almost square and is now a symmetrical two-storey mansion with strictly lined up windows and a high mansard roof with rectangular dormers and a modern, former factory extension from 1959 to the east. Since 1867 it has served as the seat of a cigar factory , the current building is also a monument to the for the region very important tobacco industry . The work in such cigar factories was an important sideline in the predominantly agricultural-oriented villages of the Giessen region.

In addition to the Brandsburg, the Zaunburg (Tzanburg), the Hofburg and the Eitelsburg are also mentioned in documents for Alten-Buseck .

Todays use

Modern extension and mansion (view from the northeast)

Today the former castle complex is used in many ways. In addition to offices, it serves as a youth center , community room of rural women and variously as exhibition space. It houses the public library and the local community archive.

At the end of 2014, a support association was founded to preserve the listed barn.

literature

  • Johannes Bickel: The village of Alten-Buseck. A contribution to local history , Gießen 1971, 2nd edition.
  • Günter Hans: Buseck. His villages and castles , Giessen 1986.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Vol. 15a (I) Hessen-Nord, Edition 2008, p. 19.
  • Carl Schliephake: The castle of the Lords of Trohe in Alten-Buseck. A contribution to the history of the Busecker Valley. In: Heimat im Bild (Gießen) 1936, p. 17 f.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , pp. 40-41

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ notary instrument via a witness interrogation establishing the fire Burg to Alten-Buseck  (HStAD Best. No. F 28. 26). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  2. ^ Association for the promotion of Brandsburg founded in Alten-Buseck , Gießener Allgemeine, November 5, 2014