Adorf Castle

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Adorf Castle
Former Adorf Castle, today's manor house

Former Adorf Castle, today's manor house

Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: small remains of the curtain wall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Diemelsee - Adorf
Geographical location 51 ° 21 '38.6 "  N , 8 ° 48' 20.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '38.6 "  N , 8 ° 48' 20.8"  E
Height: 351  m above sea level NN

The castle Adorf is an Outbound Wasserburg in Adorf , a district of the municipality Diemelsee in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg . It was in the center of the village. Only a few remains of the curtain wall are left of it today. To the west of her was the Steffenburg .

history

Place of the former castle

The village of Adorp was first mentioned in documents as early as 1120 , when Count Erpo von Padberg gave his property to the Archbishop of Cologne, Friedrich, as a fief . The ownership of the village of Adorf was then long disputed between the Archdiocese of Cologne and the Counts of Waldeck . In 1228, Bruno von Athorpe was mentioned as a knight family who were castle men at Waldeck Castle . In 1326, Hermann von Adorf (mentioned between 1310 and 1360) was mentioned as a castle owner who was a branch of the von Padberg family . He and his brothers Johann , squire and councilor of Marsberg , Dietrich , abbot of Bredelar and Werner, canon of Paderborn , are the first to name themselves as the Padberg branch after Burg and the village of Adorf.

Presumably in the 13th century, the exact date is not known, the Lords of Athorpe built a stone house, a bower, secured with moats . The trenches were supplied with water by the Wirme . The von Athorpe, however, soon left Adorf and moved to Marsberg. In 1368 the Lords of Dalwigk are mentioned as the owners of the bower. In 1463 Johann von Huck was the owner of the castle estate, and the Counts of Waldeck bought the small castle from him in 1468. In 1688 they enfeoffed the Hessen-Kassel Vice Chancellor in Marburg , Hermann von Vultejus , with the estate. The castle estate, consisting of the "old castle" and the "new castle" (the so-called Vorwerk), included the house, a distillery, a brewery, barns, stables as well as a kitchen garden and a fish pond, which were surrounded by the curtain wall .

In 1816 the castle and the property belonging to it were sold to Heinrich Christian Graubner. The moats were filled in, the fortifications and the castle house demolished. A mansion was built in place of the castle . After 1860 this was owned by the Barons von Elverfeldt , who had their seat at Canstein Castle . The castle property was later divided up.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 109.
  • Britta Erlemann: Adorf Castle: a historical bone of contention between Waldeck and Cologne. Visiting Castle Adorf in the Diemelsee community, close to the Westphalian border , In: (K) KulturMagazin: everything that moves the region, vol. 13/2006, issue 124, Kassel 2006, p. 24 f.

Web links

Commons : Wasserburg Adorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive Padberg , certificate A h 10