Burgjoss Castle

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burgjoss Castle
View from the northwest with a semicircular tower in the foreground

View from the northwest with a semicircular tower in the foreground

Alternative name (s): Jossa Castle, Burgjoss Castle
Creation time : 12th to 13th centuries
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Construction: Humpback cuboid
Place: Burgjoss
Geographical location 50 ° 12 '14 .4 "  N , 9 ° 28' 49.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 12  '14.4 " N , 9 ° 28' 49.4"  E
Burgjoss Castle (Hesse)
Burgjoss Castle

The castle Burgjoß even lock Burgjoß , Castle Jossa called, is a castle in place of an older water castle on the outskirts of Burgjoß ( Main-Kinzig-Kreis ) in the Hessian Spessart .

Street side.

history

According to its structural features, the “Jazaha” castle on the Jossa was probably built as a Fulda fiefdom towards the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century . At that time, a sideline of the Lords of Steckelberg , called von Jasza , can be seen in the much older place (first mentioned in the 9th century) with the Lords of Jossa . The Talburg was used to control an older road. It was originally a castle-like wooden structure that rested on stilts and was surrounded by a moat. Around 1160 century, a sandstone castle was built instead of the wooden structure.

In 1176 Fulda enfeoffed the Lords of Jossa with castle and court, but when they settled on Bergstrasse in the 13th century , their goods were gradually sold. After that, the castle and court changed hands several times. As early as 1326, the Isenburg family owned a quarter of the castle. When the Lords of Jossa died out before 1367, the complex became a Ganerbeburg . Shares in the property changed several times between various lower nobility in the region, such as the lords of Hutten , the lords and counts of Hanau and also higher nobility such as the counts of Rieneck and the elector of Mainz .

In 1451 half belonged to the Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg , the other part belonged to the Lords of Thüngen and von Hutten . Over time, the von Hutten acquired the entire village, but sold their entire property in the Jossa valley in 1541 to the Archbishopric of Mainz .

This was followed by a major renovation under Elector Daniel Brendel von Homburg into a Renaissance moated castle by 1573 . Kurmainz used the castle as a cellar . As "Kellerey Burgjoßa" it remained the administrative center in the Jossatal, with the villages of Burgjoss, Mernes , Oberndorf and Deutelbach . With the secularization of 1803 the Jossgrund came to the newly created Principality of Aschaffenburg , in 1810 to the Napoleonic Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , in 1814 to Bavaria, 1867 to Prussia, and finally in 1945 to Hesse. Since it belonged to Bavaria (1814–1866) there has been a forestry office in the castle, which still exists today.

investment

The trenches of the former moated castle have been leveled and are only faintly visible. The oldest, medieval parts are a semicircular, shield wall-like tower and parts of the oval curtain wall . The tower was built with humpback ashlars and there are stonemason marks that indicate that it was built at the same time as the Palatinate Gelnhausen . The walls of the tower are up to four meters thick.

The renaissance buildings from the 16th century that dominate today are partly placed on top of the older masonry . On the foundation of the semicircular tower, a three-storey building with a gable facade to the inner courtyard was built. The three-storey main building on a rectangular floor plan dominates the complex. A four- story stair tower is built on the courtyard side . The portal there and a window of the building bear the year 1573. On the portal there is also a four-part coat of arms with the Mainz wheel. Since 1973, the castle has been joined by a larger garden, the Burgwiesenpark .

literature

Web links

Commons : Burgjoss Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jossgrund-im-spessart.de/orte.php
  2. ↑ Jossgrund Forestry Office near Hessen Forst , accessed in January 2014.
  3. ^ GU Großmann: Renaissance castles in Hessen - catalog of the DFG project: Burgjoss, Burg .