Emmershausen Castle

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Emmershausen Castle
The castle stood in the place of the chapel

The castle stood in the place of the chapel

Creation time : middle Ages
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Emmershausen
Geographical location 50 ° 21 '52.2 "  N , 8 ° 22' 33.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '52.2 "  N , 8 ° 22' 33.7"  E

The castle Emmershausen is an Outbound hilltop castle (really just a festival house ) in the district Emmershausen in today Taunus community Weilrod in the northwest of Hochtaunuskreises in Hesse .

View over the former neck ditch

At the place of the castle on a rocky ridge above the river Weil , the Evangelical Church Emmershausen , a Romanesque chapel , stands today . This chapel is probably due to a renovation of the castle chapel . A few traces of the castle can still be seen on site. The neck ditch is still clearly visible, even if it is filled in and partially built over.

The lords of the castle were castle men of the Counts of Diez and later castle men of the Counts of Nassau . They probably built the castle in 1207 on behalf of the Counts of Diez. From 1326 the noble lords of Emmerhausen are named as castle owners. These are still traceable in the place until 1591. In 1353 the castle was probably taken by force by the Counts of Nassau. In 1446 it was mentioned as a ruin , in 1609 only the foundations were left, which the new Lutheran pastor who had been appointed a year earlier noted in the inventory as follows:

"As far as the chapels are concerned, they have been a robbery castle from time immemorial, one finds old masonry."

- 1609

Web links

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 449.
  • Church guide Hochtaunus ( Online p. 76/77 ; PDF; 4.8 MB, accessed on January 14, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emmershausen, Hochtaunuskreis; Paragraph landed property and landowner. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of March 28, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Church guide Hochtaunuskreis ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) p. 76, accessed on June 28, 2014.