Burguffeln Castle

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Burguffeln Castle
Burguffeln Castle, courtyard side

Burguffeln Castle, courtyard side

Alternative name (s): Borckuffeln, Uffeln Castle
Creation time : probably 9th century
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: church
Place: Grebenstein - Burguffeln
Geographical location 51 ° 25 '36.9 "  N , 9 ° 25' 53.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '36.9 "  N , 9 ° 25' 53.3"  E
Height: 218  m above sea level NN
Burguffeln Castle (Hesse)
Burguffeln Castle

The castle Burguffeln formerly, Borck Uffeln called, is a former castle and current location of St. Margaret's Church in the district Burguffeln (Bremer Straße- At the church yard) town Grebenstein in Kassel district in northern Hesse .

description

The castle was probably built in the 9th century. This is indicated by a document from the Fulda monastery in which the place is mentioned for the first time as "Ufelohun" and in a document from the year 965 "ufloun et altera ufloun" (Uffels and the other Ufeline) could be meant. For a long time the fortified and walled castle seat, called "Borckuffeln" since the beginning of the 16th century, was associated with the Lords of Uffeln . In the Grebensteiner Salbuch from 1554 it says under “Dorfburg Uofeln” “Arndt von Uoffelen has the Kemenade and Burgseß there”. The street-side house bar, consisting of a bricked ground floor with attached framework and a total of nine street-side dormers , can probably be assigned to the medieval castle.

In the 10th century was in the bower the St. Margaret's Church in Gothic style as a small pillar basilica built.

In the middle of the 18th century, the Uffel castle property was transferred to the later Hessian Landgrave Friedrich II , who then also had the small Gothic pillar basilica so skilfully rebuilt that the church, which was consecrated to St. Margaret before the Reformation , took on its main forms of medieval Gothic church had received. The castle seat is converted into a managed property ( state domain ).

Todays use

Street side with residential units

The domain building was expanded in 2000 with apartments suitable for the disabled. The former domain with the church is now a Hessian cultural monument .

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ history Burguffeln beiregiowiki.hna.de
  2. ^ Burguffeln - Protestant Church