Alt-Hohensolms Castle

Alt-Hohensolms Castle
Today's observation tower on the site of the former castle
Alternative name (s):	Altensolms
Creation time :	1321
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, remains of ramparts and moats
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Hohenahr
Geographical location	50 ° 38 '13.2 "  N , 8 ° 31' 1.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '13.2 "  N , 8 ° 31' 1.2"  E.
Height:	442.2  m above sea level NHN

The Castle Alt-Hohensolms later only, Old Solms called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 442.2  m above sea level. NHN high Altenberg south of the community Hohenahr in the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .

history

The Counts of Solms built their (Alt-) Hohensolms Castle on the Altenberg after 1257 or around 1321 to protect their territory from the Landgraves of Hesse and the neighboring Königsberg Castle . Alt-Hohensolms was first mentioned in a document in 1323 when it was given to the Archbishop of Mainz, Matthias von Buchegg, as a fief . The castle made it possible for the Counts of Solms to control trade north of Wetzlar , since several long-distance trade routes met in its immediate vicinity. The imperial city of Wetzlar complained several times about attacks on merchants by Solmser Burgmannen. There were long-term conflicts, as a result of which the castle was first stormed in 1328 and finally destroyed in 1349. The Counts of Solms circumvented the prohibition of rebuilding by Emperor Karl IV by building their new Hohensolms Castle (also Neu-Hohensolms) around two kilometers further north on the Ramsberg around 1350 .

investment

From the castle only remnants of the Wall-and today are grave sites available. Prince Ferdinand von Solms-Hohensolms-Lich had a lookout tower built in the first half of the 19th century, presumably using stones from the former castle . It has not been conclusively clarified whether the tower also stands on older foundations.

literature

• Folkhard Cremer (arrangement): Georg Dehio , Handbook of the German Art Monuments Hesse 1st administrative districts Gießen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 427.
• 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. 282.
• Maria Wenzel: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill district. Edited by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1652-5 , p. 301 u. 310f. ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ).
• Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 188.

Web links

• Alt-Hohensolms Castle on the website of the Hohenahr community
• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Burg Altenberg, Alt-Hohensolms, Altensolms In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ^ R. Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. , P. 282, different dating: Maria Wenzel: Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II. Wiesbaden 2003, p. 310f: built after 1257. Likewise F. Cremer: Dehio, Handbook of the German Art Monuments Hessen 1. p. 427.