Elnhausen Castle

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elnhausen Castle
Alternative name (s): Elnhausen moated castle
Creation time : around 1251
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: Remains of the moat
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Elnhausen
Geographical location 50 ° 48 '44.6 "  N , 8 ° 41' 15.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '44.6 "  N , 8 ° 41' 15.4"  E
Height: 225  m above sea level NHN
Elnhausen Castle (Hesse)
Elnhausen Castle

The castle Elnhausen even Wasserburg Elnhausen called, is an Outbound Wasserburg in Marburg district Elnhausen in Hessian Marburg-Biedenkopf .

Geographical location

It was located at 225  m above sea level. NN height on the north-western edge of the village on the outgoing tow slope of the Stöckelsberg / Stackelberg (366 m). In its place has been Elnhausen Castle since 1707/1717 with the farm buildings that once belonged to it.

history

In the place mentioned for the first time in 1235 as "villa Ailenhusen", the noble lords of Elnhausen are mentioned in 1251 as the builders of a small castle. Later owners were the Lords of Weitershausen , from whom it passed to the Schenk zu Schweinsberg family in the 16th or early 17th century . In 1635, after imperial troops had devastated the area, it was referred to as a "noble house", and in 1703 it was again referred to as a "free aristocratic castle".

In 1672, Hermann von Vultejus (Vultée), acting Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel government councilor in Marburg , bought the castle, which was partially destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and has since been neglected, from the Schweinsberg taverns. Between 1707 and 1717 Vultejus, Vice Chancellor of the Province of Upper Hesse since 1687 , had the old complex demolished and in its place built an estate complex on the almost square ground of the former castle, with a baroque castle based on the French model on the west side and the farm buildings the other three sides.

Since then, only a moat south of today's castle has been preserved from the former castle.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Damm et al. (Ed.): 775 years of Elnhausen: 1235 - 2010. A village like a city. Marburg, 2010.
  • Michael Losse: The Lahn - castles and palaces. From Biedenkopf and Marburg via Gießen, Wetzlar and Weilburg to Limburg, Nassau and Lahnstein . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-070-9 , pp. 97-98.
  • Lutz Dursthoff among others: The German castles and palaces in color . Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8105-0228-6 , p. 477.
  • Karl-Heinrich Rexroth: Short Chronicle of Elnhausen . Marburg, 1972.

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. Vultejus, Hermann von der Elder. Hessian biography (as of April 27, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 10, 2012 . Elsewhere, the year 1707 is mentioned, see: Elnhausen, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 10, 2012 .