Blankenwald Castle

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Blankenwald Castle
View of Blankenau with the former monastery church and hospital (left) and the castle hill of the former Blankenwald castle (beech stock on the right behind)

View of Blankenau with the former monastery church and hospital (left) and the castle hill of the former Blankenwald castle (beech stock on the right behind)

Alternative name (s): Hainburg, Blankenberg
Creation time : First and last mention in 1264
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Hosenfeld - Blankenau
Geographical location 50 ° 32 '20.6 "  N , 9 ° 28' 36.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '20.6 "  N , 9 ° 28' 36.9"  E
Height: 356  m above sea level NN
Blankenwald Castle (Hesse)
Blankenwald Castle

The castle Blank Forest , also Hainburg or Blankenberg called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 356 meter high Hainberg southeast above the village Blankenau in the town of Hosenfeld in the Hessian town of Fulda in Hesse .

history

Already in prehistoric times there was a ring rampart at the castle site to protect the local path leading past this point , an early trade route coming from the Wetterau . According to recent research, the route, coming from the Marburger Land, ran through the northern Wetterau (Wedereiba 1016) and the Vogelsberg past Blankenwald Castle via Hainzell on the way to Fulda , past the later Guntherskirchen, today's Kleinheiligkreuz , to then at Himmelsberg near the Herrgottseiche west of Giesel to cross the Antsanvia .

In the 13th century, the Lords of Blankenwald, a sideline of the Lords of Schlitz , founded Blankenwald Castle around 1242. It became one of the most feared robber barons' nests in the Fulda region and therefore stormed and razed by the then Fulda prince abbot Bertho II von Leibolz in 1264 . Like other Buchonian robbery castles, Blankenwald Castle was also destroyed. Today's Burgstall shows only the plateau in a castle hill lined with beeches .

  • The staircase to the Burgstall

  • The almost flat plateau of the castle stable

  • The measurement point Trigonometric Point (TP) on the Burgstall

  • The slope of the castle stable to the south

  • The still recognizable ring wall-trench system in the south

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites . 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 205.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . 1926, p. 52.

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