Burguffeln Castle
Burguffeln Castle | ||
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Burguffeln Castle, courtyard side |
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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 | |
Height: | 218 m above sea level NN | |
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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
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
- Burguffeln, District of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Uffeln Castle, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Pictures of the former state domain
- Contributions to the history of the village of Burguffeln