Diedenshausen Castle
| Diedenshausen Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Lower nobility ( knights ) | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 4 '29.9 " N , 8 ° 30' 3.5" E | |
| Height: | 480 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Diedenshausen is an Outbound medieval Spur castle in the current district Diedenshausen the city of Bad Berleburg in Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The castle was at 480 m above sea level. NN high rock spur above the old village center in the area of today's chapel , which was initially part of the castle complex.
history
The castle was built around 1150. It was first mentioned in a document in 1194. Knight Godebert von Diedenshausen is mentioned in a Mainz document . In 1274 a descendant of Godebert - Gerlach von Diedenshausen - joins the Teutonic Order . With the extinction of the knight family around 1400, the village and castle complex became desolate . When the village was repopulated around 1500, the now dilapidated castle complex was no longer of any importance and was not rebuilt.
Remnants of the walls of the old castle were found during renovation work on the chapel and the adjacent cemetery.
literature
- Günther Wrede , Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein , 1927
- Wittgensteiner Heimatverein : Pages of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV Evidence can be found in the Wittgenstein bibliography
- Lars Womelsdorf: Contributions to the history of the village Alertshausen .
- Wittgenstein I, 1965