Brobeck Castle

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Brobeck Castle
Alternative name (s): Brocbicke, Brobeke
Creation time : 1185
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Neudorf
Geographical location 51 ° 30 '4 "  N , 8 ° 58' 30"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '4 "  N , 8 ° 58' 30"  E
Height: 248  m above sea level NHN
Brobeck Castle (Hesse)
Brobeck Castle

The former Brobeck Castle is an abandoned castle complex on a flat hill, the corridor is known as Brabacher Wiesen , not far from the Bruchmühle on the Orpe River in the district of Neudorf , a district of Diemelstadt in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hesse . Nothing remains of the former moated castle except the small castle hill. Today's Swicbrachtinghausen desert near the castle has also long since disappeared.

history

Brocbicke Castle was first mentioned in 1186 or 1188, in connection with a feud between Count Wittekind III. von Waldeck and Schwalenberg and Hermann I von Schwalenberg on the one hand and the Paderborn Bishop Bernhard von Ibbenbüren on the other. The counts had retired to the castle after a first defeat. The bishop besieged the castle, took it and destroyed it. Wittekind made an atonement for participating in the Third Crusade , from which he did not return. The castle was built by the Waldecker constructed Count again soon, and of them there as Burgmannen used Ministerialengeschlecht was called soon after the castle. A knight Heinrich von Brobeck is first attested in 1209, and in 1276 a knight Johannes von Brobeck.

In 1320 Corvey Abbey laid claim to the castle, but an arbitration tribunal confirmed the Count of Waldeck's ownership of the castle at Whitsun 1321, and in the following year the brothers Johann and Heinrich von Brobeck, Waldeck feudal lords , are attested as lords of the castle on Brobeck . Gottschalk von Brobeck is documented as lord of the castle in 1345. (His cousin Heinrich von Brobeck became an hereditary castle man at the Kugelsburg in the Electorate of Cologne near Volkmarsen , where his descendants lived for a long time, no later than 1342, probably on the advice of Waldeck .)

Like other castles and places, Brobeck Castle was pledged when its owners were in need of money. On May 16, 1357, Johann von Wellede told Count Otto II and Heinrich VI. von Waldeck that Brobeck Castle, pledged to him by the two of them, would not accept any of the lords of Padberg against the Archbishop of Mainz , the Landgrave of Hesse , the Counts of the Mark and von Berg .

In 1378 Herbold von Brobeck was declared a castle man at the castle. He was a member of the Star Association . When he took rebellious servants of Paderborn's bishop Simon von Sternberg into the castle and they robbed the surrounding area, the bishop besieged the castle, was hit in the abdomen by an arrow on January 5, 1389 and died 20 days later as a result of this wounding .

Thereafter, the castle was not mentioned again until 1489, when Eva von Waldeck , the only child born in wedlock of Count Otto IV von Waldeck († 1495) from the older Landau line, died of the plague .

When the Brobeck family died out in the male line in 1578, the castle was already completely desolate.

literature

  • Gerhard Aumüller: "Brobeck family and castle - a medieval ministerial family in Waldeck." In: History sheets for Waldeck, 69th volume, Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein, Bad Arolsen 1981.
  • 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. 111.
  • * Gottfried Ganßauge, Walter Kramm, Wolfgang Medding: The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region. New episode Volume 2: Circle of Twist. Bärenreiter, Kassel, 1938, pp. 198, 262.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swicbrachtinghausen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of August 9, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 30, 2014 .
  2. ^ Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen, Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1825, p. 261
  3. ↑ May 16, 1357, No recording of the von Padberg at Brobeck Castle against the Landgraves. Regest no. 1237. Regests of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).