Eifa Castle

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Eifa Castle
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains of the neck ditch
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Eifa
Geographical location 50 ° 57 '38.9 "  N , 8 ° 35' 27.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '38.9 "  N , 8 ° 35' 27.6"  E
Height: 510  m above sea level NHN
Eifa Castle (Hesse)
Eifa Castle

The castle Eifa is an Outbound Spur castle on the southwestern side of cabbage mountain at 510  m above sea level. NN near the Eifa district of the city of Hatzfeld in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

history

Presumably in the 13th century, an unknown builder - there is no evidence of a noble von Yffe family - built a small tower castle about 400 m southeast of today's town on a mountain spur of the 583 m high coal mountain that protrudes to the west . Perhaps it was the Lords of Eppe who were Burgmanns of the Archbishops of Mainz in Battenberg in the 13th and 14th centuries and who owned Eifa as court lords .

The castle was separated from the slope by a ditch and probably served to secure the trade route from the bagpipe to Battenberg and Frankenberg that passed in the valley . From the castle one could also see and control the branch of the Eisenstraße leading over the ridge of the Lützlergebirge from Siegerland to North Hesse on its course in the Eifaer district - over Rödern (606 m) and Struth (577 m). It could therefore have served the von Eppe as a base in their battles against the Landgraves of Hesse, who were enemies with Mainz .

It is not known when the castle was abandoned or perhaps destroyed and then fell into disrepair. Small remains of the neck ditch have been preserved . There are hardly any visible remains of the wall.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3rd edition, Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 141.
  • Jens Friedhoff : Castles, palaces and aristocratic residences in the Hessian hinterland . Published by the Hinterland History Association, 2018, p. 126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfhard Vahl: About the beginnings of the parish Eisenhausen . In: Journal for Hessian History and Regional Studies . tape 110 . Kassel 2005, p. 17-18 .
  2. ^ Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .