Eisenberg Castle (Korbach)

Eisenberg castle ruins
The castle ruins in 2006
Creation time :	13th century, mentioned in a document in 1367
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Korbach - Goldhausen
Geographical location	51 ° 15 '4 "  N , 8 ° 49' 36"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '4 "  N , 8 ° 49' 36"  E
Height:	560  m above sea level NHN

Eisenberg castle ruins

The Eisenberg Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle in Goldhausen , a suburb of Korbach in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse .

Geographical location

The castle ruin is located in the Diemelsee Nature Park a few hundred meters northeast of Goldhausen on the summit of the Eisenberg ( 560  m above sea  level ), a mountain on the edge of the East Sauerland mountains ; The “Turmweg” leads up from the parking lot at the edge of the village. The Korbach core city is about 4 km (as the crow flies ) northeast of the ruins.

Next to the castle ruins is the Georg Viktor Tower observation tower . The "Goldspur Eisenberg" educational trail and the Sauerland-Höhenflug hiking trail lead past .

history

The builders of the castle, which was built at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, are not known. The age determination is based on ceramic finds from the moat of the main castle, which were dated to this time. The castle was either founded by the Counts of Waldeck or its origin goes back to the Lords of Itter as lords in Ittergau . The castle complex is first mentioned in documents in 1367 as it was owned by the Counts of Waldeck. In 1359 the Lords of Nordenbeck can be identified at Eisenberg Castle. In 1421 Count Heinrich VII. Von Waldeck passed the castle to his brother Adolf III in the course of the reconciliation and division of the county . from Waldeck . In 1450 the Lords of Viermünden had a castle seat on the Eisenberg. In 1487 it became the seat of the Waldeck office in Eisenberg. From 1487 to 1692 the castle, which was expanded again in the post-medieval period and built in the Renaissance style , served as the residence of the Waldeck-Eisenberg line. 1520 the castle was by Count Philip III. and Anna von Cleve expanded into a castle. In 1563 it received a small three-storey renaissance extension as an extension of the “New Castle” and in 1586 a chapel.

In 1621, Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel , who claimed not only the feudal lordship but also the sovereignty over Waldeck, troops marched into Waldeck. The inventory of the castle was destroyed by the troops of the landgrave, but the building itself was hardly affected.

Count Heinrich Wolrad (1642–1664) von Waldeck-Eisenberg was the last one who still resided at the castle and had the facility repaired. His coat of arms and that of his wife Juliane Elisabeth with the year 1662 bear witness to this .

Around 1700 the castle was neglected, in 1729 it was an uninhabitable ruin, and from 1749 it was demolished and the masonry was used for other purposes as building material.

investment

In the course of an excavation, the remains of the foundation wall were uncovered and renovated from 1974 to 1982. The main castle was approximately 38.5 m by 25 m. The castle complex consisted of a tower and, according to traditional sketches and excavations of the foundation walls, the core castle , gate bridge, three-story Renaissance building, castle chapel and an estate below the castle. The foundation walls , wall and moat are still there .

Further castle and ramparts

To the north-east of the Eisenberg castle ruins, on a mountain spur, lies the castle stables of a Fürstenstuhl , Königsstuhl or Königsburg or, presumably, also Goldenberg , another, but almost completely abandoned, second castle complex. It is listed as a ground monument . From the assumed high medieval castle foundation it is unclear whether the complex is the castrum Goldenberg , named in 1254 . The complex is also dated to the 13th or 14th century by reading finds (ceramic remains). It is only slightly recognizable in the area, a ditch and a small castle hill are still visible.

Another third ring wall system , which has not yet been determined in time and is divided by an intermediate wall , is also located on the Eisenberg. The castle has a flat wall with a moat and is located southeast of the observation tower. Fragments found point to the 13th and 15th centuries. In the past, the complex was assumed to be Celtic .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Goldspur Eisenberg (Goldlehrpfad am Eisenberg), on goldhausen.de
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry by JF on Eisenberg III in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on November 1, 2016.
3. ^ Entry by JF zu Eisenberg near Korbach I in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on November 1, 2016.
4. ^ Entry by JF zu Eisenberg II in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on November 1, 2016.

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg publishing house. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 . P. 113 f.
• J. Kulick: Eisenberg Castle near Goldhausen . Leaflet on the ramparts and the ruins of Eisenberg Castle on the Eisenberg near Korbach-Goldhausen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district (amended and modified edition), Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-89822-017-6 . 12 pages
• Jörg Lindenthal: Cultural Discoveries. Archaeological monuments in Hessen. , Jenior, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-934377-73-4 . Pp. 126-128.
• Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 . Pp. 218-220.

Web links

Commons : Burg Eisenberg  - Collection of images

• Volker Scharfe: Eisenberg Castle , on goldhausen.de
• Goldhausen, Eisenberg ruins , in the wiki of the project "Renaissance castles in Hessen" at the Germanic National Museum, on schloesser.gnm.de
• Entry by JF zu Eisenberg III in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on November 1, 2016.