Dorndiel Castle

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Dorndiel Castle
Alternative name (s): Dorndieler Burg , later: Dorndieler Hof , Pfälzer Hof , Pfalzhof
Creation time : mentioned around 1390
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, built over, no remains
Standing position : Niederadelssitz
Construction: Sandstone
Place: Dorndiel
Geographical location 49 ° 51 '52.1 "  N , 9 ° 0' 51.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '52.1 "  N , 9 ° 0' 51.4"  E
Height: 229  m above sea level NN
Dorndiel Castle (Hesse)
Dorndiel Castle

The castle Dorndiel even Dorndieler castle and later Dorndieler Hof , Pfalzer Hof and Pfalzhof called, is a Outbound Wasserburg on the site of the former Dorndieler court , now part of the local part Dorndiel the city Gross-Umstadt in Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse in Odenwald .

location

The castle was located on the site of the later Dorndieler Hof , which at that time was independent of the Dorndiel district , belonged to the Klein-Umstadt district and was therefore owned by the Electoral Palatinate and Hesse-Darmstadt in the Umstadt condominium . In history, the Dorndieler Hof was mostly associated with Wald-Amorbach . The location of the castle is today in the south-western area of ​​today's Umstadt district of Dorndiel, which came from Fulda in the Middle Ages and was owned by Electoral Mainz, like the entire Bachgau .

history

(Partial) map of the forests in the Umstadt condominium . At the bottom right above Dorndiel the Dorndieler Hof, where the castle was located
Coats of arms of the likely castle owners in the 14th century

There is hardly any historical evidence of the castle, which can only be seen as a residential tower or a bower with a rampart. The small castle was a residential castle of the noble lords of Amorbach , who had small fiefs and estates around Wald-Amorbach. As Schelle von Amorbach they are named as lords of the castle in 1390. They were also castle men at the nearby Breuberg Castle and Klingenberg Castle . Mentioned in a document, remnants of the castle foundations were still visible at the Palatinate / Dorndieler Hof around 1786 . It is very likely that the remains of the castle were used to build the permanent residence of the court estate. The finds of a Roman face mask made from the red sandstone of the area in the Dorndieler Wald also suggest that it could be the remains of a Roman villa rustica and that the later attribution to the Lords of Amorbach is confused with the one that was also lost and the nearby Amorbach Castle .

Like the Mühlhäuser Schlößchen , the so-called Bacheburg (remnants of the former moated castle in the Obernburg district of Neustädterhof between Mömlingen and Eisenbach , which had a predecessor castle on the Schneirersbuckel , which had long since been destroyed and abandoned, only about 100 meters further south-west), like the castle on the Ölenbuckel of the Obernburg district Eisenbach (which also had a predecessor castle ) and, like the abandoned Waldamorbach Castle at the Geldloch , were probably small castles belonging to the lower aristocrats in the area, who were mostly Burgmanns of Breuberg Castle and, with their well-fortified seats, helped control the valley entrances to the main Breuberg Castle.

Building history and current stock

Today no remains of the castle are visible. The site has never been archaeologically examined either. From the documented descriptions it is only known that at least the ground floor was made of the locally occurring sandstone of the Odenwald and was surrounded by a wall.

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Darmstadt 1829, Volume 1, p. 55
  • Johann Goswin Widder: Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Pfalz am Rheine, Second Part , Frankfurt & Leipzig 1786, p. 29 (section Wüstamorbach)
  • Thomas Steinmetz: Castles in the Odenwald . Ellen Schmid, Brensbach 1998, ISBN 3-931529-02-9 .
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 535.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Festschrift of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz to celebrate its centenary , Mainz 1952, Verlag des Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Volume 1, p. 13