Alt-Wolfskehlen Castle

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Alt-Wolfskehlen Castle
Alternative name (s): Alte Burg, Die Bürgel, Alte Wolfskehl, (modern :) Castle Herrenhölzer Berg
Creation time : First mentioned in 1184
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Local nobility
Place: Riedstadt - Wolfskehlen
Geographical location 49 ° 50 '30.1 "  N , 8 ° 31' 31.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '30.1 "  N , 8 ° 31' 31.3"  E
Height: 90  m above sea level NN
Alt-Wolfskehlen Castle (Hesse)
Alt-Wolfskehlen Castle
Center Wolfskehlen, above the left overlying (southern, top side) Alt-Neckar loop was the Alt-Wolfskehlen Castle

The Alt-Wolfskehlen Castle , also known as the Old Castle , is a defunct tower castle (Motte) southeast of today's Wolfskehlen district of the city of Riedstadt in the Groß-Gerau district in Hesse .

location

At the former castle, first mentioned in 1184, whose location in the area of ​​the “Bürgel” corridor, on the west-facing southern hook of the NSG Rallbruch von Wolfskehlen (an old run of the Urneckar ) is said to have been about midway between the courtyards “Burghof” and “Lindenhof” , it was a low castle of the castle type of a motte , the foundation of which goes back to the lords of Wolfskehlen.

It is highly probable that the castle called Herrenhölzer Berg Castle by LAGIS can be equated with Alt-Wolfskehlen Castle, as it was located directly next to Herrenhölzer Berg: “Next to Herrenhölzer Berg was the so-called 'old Wolfskehle', the family seat of the Lords of Wolfskehlen. “Herrenhölzer Berg was a sand dune that was removed around 1870. The name of the elevation is still entered on older district maps.

history

As the oldest representative of the von Wolfskehlen family, a Ger (h) ardus de Wolfskehlen can be documented, who is mentioned from 1184 to 1192 and was Vogt of the Eberbach monastery in Leeheim . The village of Wolfskehlen was still called Biblos , Bibilos inferior or Bibiloz until the middle of the 13th century , after which it took over the name of the knight family (probably also after the construction of the second castle closer to the place). Gerardus had a large number of children. His eldest sons kept the old castle, while three of his younger sons jointly built a new knight's seat, Neu-Wolfskehlen Castle , which, however, did not last long. The old castle, on the other hand, must have existed until at least the 15th century, since the ancestral seat still appears in documents, etc. a. Documented dated May 2, 1358, when Burkhard von Wolfskehl the Elder sold his cousins ​​and heirs his share of their common property, including "his share in Altenwolfskehl". Thus Alt-Wolfskehlen was also a Ganerbeburg by the 14th century at the latest . His descendants were in constant dispute with the Eberbach monastery over goods in Leeheim, Riedhausen and the Bensheimer Hof. In 1411 Jutta von Seeheim is named as Gerhardt von Wolfskehlen's widow , who pledged the holdings around the castle to Hanßen von Wolfskehlen , in 1481 Anna von Wolfskehlen then pawned the forest around the castle for 30 years to residents of Goddelau and Wolfskehlen and in 1501 Hans von Wolfskehlen and his bought Mrs. Anna von Gemmingen returned the Herrenholz called meadow around Altwolfskehlen from Philipp von Löwenstein and his wife Margarethe von Hanark, as well as his brothers Seyfried and Wilhelm von Löwenstein. Hans von Wolfskehlen , the last of his line, died in 1505 and is buried in the St. Katharinen Church in Oppenheim . From the middle of the 16th century there is no more news about the castle.

The inexact allocation of existing documents leaves the possibility open that the names for the castle Alt-Wolfskehlen , Herrnhölzer Berg and Neu-Wolfskehlen are names of one and the same castle and possibly the descendants of Gerardus (who can be regarded as a family name) only new parts of the castle built around the old castle seat and named it differently.

description

In 1783 the castle is referred to as a two-part moth . The extended outer bailey was of the Motte hill by a moat been disconnected.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 516.
  • Walter Petzinger, Heinrich Weinheimer: The desert areas in the district of Groß-Gerau. In: Groß-Gerau district (ed.): Lebendige Heimat. Roetherdruck, Darmstadt 1958, pp. 109-129.
  • Thomas Steinmetz: Early low castles in southern Hesse and adjacent areas. Ober-Kainsbach 1989, pp. 12-13.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buxbaum's profit card from Wolfskehlen  (HStAD inventory O 61 Buxbaum No. 1/465). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  2. ↑ Entry on Burg Alt-Wolfskehlen in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  3. ↑ Herrenhölzer Berg Castle, Groß-Gerau district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of January 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ quoted from Walther Möller: Burgenkunde for the Odenwald area. Verlag Schneider, Mainz 1938, p. 10.
  5. ^ Petzinger, Weinheimer: The desert areas in the Groß-Gerau district. In: Groß-Gerau district (ed.): Lebendige Heimat. Darmstadt 1958; Pp. 110/111.
  6. ↑ From the municipalities of the district. In: Groß-Gerau district (ed.): Lebendige Heimat. Darmstadt 1958; P. 352.
  7. ↑ See the documents in the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt: Documents of the former Starkenburg province: 111/3, 111/6 and 111/9 under the name Hohengalgen : in the documents of the von Wolfskehlen the place around the castle in 1411 is "zur alten Wolfskehlen, that is called the Herrnholz ", in 1481 and again in 1501" the so-called Herrnholz zu alten Wolfskehlen ".
  8. ^ Bernhard Helfrich Wenck: Hessische Landesgeschichte. Vol. 1, Darmstadt / Gießen 1783, p. 21.