Eisemroth Castle

Eisemroth Castle
Creation time :	around 1307
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Landgraves, nobles
Place:	Siegbach - Eisemroth
Geographical location	50 ° 43 '59.9 " N , 8 ° 25' 21" E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '59.9 " N , 8 ° 25' 21" E

The castle Eisemroth is an Outbound hilltop castle at Eisemroth , in the municipality of Siegbach in Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse .

history

Around 1307 to 1308, Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse had a castle built against the Counts of Nassau as part of the Dernbach feud near Eisemroth . Lehnshalter and Burgmannen were the lords of Bicken and the lords of Dernbach . As early as 1327/28 the castle was destroyed again by the Nassauers who fought against the landgrave and the local nobility for sovereignty. Nothing has survived from the castle, which is said to have been on a hill east of the old village center. It is believed that the castle stood where the church is today.

literature

Horst W. Müller: Castle "Wallenfels", the unknown [including a contribution to the history of Castle Eisemroth], Hinterländer Geschichtsblätter , 88th year, No. 3, October 2009, Biedenkopf
Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 421.
Georg Wilhelm Sante (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 4: Hessen (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 274). Unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-520-27403-5 .

Web links

Main data from JF on Eisemroth Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on November 1, 2016.