Esbeck Castle (Diemelsee)

Esbeck Castle
Alternative name (s):	Eßbeck, Esebeck, Eschebeck
Creation time :	1255/56
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Remains of two buildings, ring-shaped moat
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Diemelsee - Adorf
Geographical location	51 ° 22 '59.2 "  N , 8 ° 49' 54.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '59.2 "  N , 8 ° 49' 54.8"  E
Height:	415  m above sea level NHN

The castle Esbeck is an Outbound Wasserburg between the Diem Elseer district Adorf in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg and Borntosten in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

To the east of the deserted village of Esbeck , which fell in 1400 , the castle was probably built to secure a trade route . When and by whom this happened is not known. A family called Dickebir is said to have had a castle here from 1106 to 1128; until 1365 she was certified as the owner of at least one more estate in Esbeck. The castle, owned by the Lords of Esbike, was first mentioned in a document in 1255/56. It is assumed that it could have been the ancestral home of the Lords of Escheberg. In 1370 half of the castle went to the Hessian Landgrave Hermann II of Hesse , the other half to Count Otto II of Waldeck . He pledged his half to Hendrich de Fischer from Padberg . The castle served to secure the border towards the dioceses of Cologne and Paderborn . In 1417 it was pledged to Albert von Braunsen (Brunhardessen). After this male line died out, it fell to the Lords of Immekusen. In 1513 this family also died out.

It is not known when the castle was abandoned and destroyed. However, traces of fire found indicate violent destruction, probably during the Thirty Years' War .

The partially filled, ring-shaped moat and the remains of walls from two buildings can still be seen today .

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 114.
• Esbeck Castle near Adorf. In: My Waldeck. Supplement to the Waldecker Landeszeitung für Heimatfreunde , 1972, 1.
• Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen : Basis of the Waldeck country and regent history. , Arolsen 1853.

Web links

• Esbeck Castle, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 4, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 19, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte , Volume 1, p. 45.