Burg-Gemünden Castle

Burg-Gemünden Castle
Creation time :	13th Century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	received restored
Construction:	Quarry stone, half-timbered
Place:	Gemünden - Burg-Gemünden
Geographical location	50 ° 40 '52.6 "  N , 9 ° 2' 18.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 '52.6 "  N , 9 ° 2' 18.6"  E
Height:	241  m above sea level NN

The Burg-Gemünden Castle is a medieval hilltop castle at 241  m above sea level. NN high basalt cone above the Ohm in the district of Burg-Gemünden (Burggasse) of the municipality of Gemünden in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse . The castle gave the place its name.

history

The area that initially belonged to the Fulda Monastery was temporarily given to the Counts of Ziegenhain as a fief and soon a " permanent house " was built over the Ohmfurt in the second half of the 13th century , which had an eventful history.

The main hall of the castle

After this had been canceled on the orders of Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse , the Landgrave shortly afterwards had his daughter Mechthild and her husband, Count Gottfried VI. von Ziegenhain to rebuild the castle, whose location on an important trade route promised good income, from 1274 onwards.

After Count Gottfried's death, the castle served as Mechthild's widow's seat and finally came into Hessian possession in 1310. It was the seat of a bailiff, served as a tithe barn , was the seat of a forestry authority, from 1933 accommodation for the former Reich Labor Service and after the Second World War accommodation for evacuated and displaced families. In 1975 the castle was sold in private ownership.

description

entrance

A rare, secular construction from the late Gothic period that has survived is the steep roof structure of the palas from around 1510. The tithe barn with half-timbered inserts on a stone plinth comes from the following period . In the 18th century, Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hessen-Darmstadt had the castle generously rebuilt in the Baroque style. The 1.5 meter thick walls were given larger windows and deep seating niches; a large hall, two spacious rooms and a small hall were also built. Next to a window of the house there is a coat of arms monogram of Ludwig VIII in the facade: crown and stylized "L" with the year 1756.

The old enclosing walls are still preserved, and by raising the derelict quarry stone walls in the courtyard, the separation between the core and outer bailey could be made visible again, which indicates the former defensive character.

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. 237.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Ziegenhainer Regesten online no. 339. Regests of the Counts of Ziegenhain (as of December 16, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 12, 2012 . 

Web links

Commons : Burg Burg-Gemünden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gemünden Castle at rittmannsperger.de
• History of the community of Gemünden at gemuenden-felda.de