Fürstenberg Castle (Lichtenfels)

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Fürstenberg Castle
Alternative name (s): Vorstenberg Castle
Creation time : 13th Century
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Furstenberg
Geographical location 51 ° 10 '5.9 "  N , 8 ° 49' 50.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '5.9 "  N , 8 ° 49' 50.9"  E
Height: 433  m above sea level NHN
Fürstenberg Castle (Hesse)
Fürstenberg Castle

The Fürstenberg Castle is an Outbound castle in the district of Furstenberg , a formerly independent city and a modern district of Lichtenfels in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg .

There are no structural remains, and their exact location is no longer known, but is believed to be between the church and the former rectory on the western edge of the village. The time of their abandonment or destruction is also unknown. Possibly it was destroyed at the beginning of the 17th century in the course of the trials and battles between the Archbishops of Cologne as Dukes of Westphalia and the Counts of Waldeck around several places in the Lichtenfels Office, as well as Lichtenfels Castle , which is only a few kilometers away, a victim of this Clashes became.

history

The small castle complex was probably built in the early 13th century, on behalf of the Corvey Abbey, which was ruled in 1220 and pursued an expansive territorial policy . This may have happened at the same time as the first restoration of the neighboring Lichtenfels Castle by Prince Abbot Hermann I in the period between 1223 and 1230, but details of the building history have not been passed down. The facility probably served to secure Corveyian property in the area and was occupied by ministerials or feudal men .

The first documentary mention in 1267 confirms the transfer of a castle fiefdom in Fürstenberg to Regenhard (Reinhard I) von Itter by Abbot Hermann I, who was in office from 1223 to 1253. In the same year, however, after a feud , the abbey had to keep the castle, as did the Lichtenfels Castle and the small town of Sachsenberg , founded by Corvey, pledged this property to the Counts of Waldeck , who also pledged this property from 1277 onwards between Corvey and the Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried on the one hand and Count Otto I of Waldeck and his father-in-law , the Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse , on the other hand, could claim and finally ousted the abbey entirely from these three places. In 1297 Corvey was forced to give up all claims to these places. The prince abbey tried one last time in 1321 to regain its rights there, but the arbitrators called , Count Heinrich von Schwalenberg and Gottschalk von Padberg , decided on all points in favor of Count Heinrich IV von Waldeck.

In October 1388, Count Heinrich VI pledged . and his son Adolf , subject to the right of repurchase , the castle and the city of Fürstenberg, as well as the customs of Sachsenberg and the village of Berndorf , for 1000 guilders to Broseke (Ambrosius) from Viermund zu Nordenbeck . Count Heinrich VII opened the Fürstenberg Castle in 1418 to Archbishop Johann II of Mainz , to whose niece he was married. In July of the same year he pledged also subject to re-redemption, the Fürstenberg Castle, except the local outdoor court , and the deserted village Heigermark in waves to the brothers Otto and Lotze of Wildungen and Lotze's son Louis. Jost von Wildungen, who apparently had taken over half of this pledge from his cousins, testified in March 1530 that Count Philip III. redeemed half of Fürstenberg Castle and Heigermark for 300 guilders and guaranteed him possession of the other half of Heigermark until it was bought back.

From 1466 at the latest, the Lords of Eppe owned the Waldeck castle feud at Fürstenberg. This was independent of pledges and lendings. Thus, Kurt (Konrad IV.) Of four-mouth in 1472 with Castle, City, Freistuhl invested Furstenberg and court, where he and the city council Furstenberg pledged to castle and town Count Wolrad I. and Philip I of Waldeck always keep open. In February 1518, Count Philip II enfeoffed his council, the compatriot Friedrich von Twiste, with the town and castle of Fürstenberg; this happened at the request of Ambrosius I von Viermund zu Neersen , son of Conrad IV von Viermund, who had sold the city to Friedrich von Twiste. Count Friedrich Anton Ulrich renewed this enfeoffment in 1706 when he enfeoffed Leopold Friedrich von Twiste and his brothers Johann Friedrich and Friedrich Alban, sons of the late Philipp Kurt von Twiste, with Fürstenberg, the free chair and the court there.

When the male line of the Lords of Eppe died out in 1785, Prince Friedrich enfeoffed his district president Friedrich Ludwig Wieprecht von Zerbst with the Fürstenberg feud, which consisted of the Fürstenberg feudal castle . After Zerbst's death in 1814, Prince Georg II enfeoffed his son Ludwig von Zerbst, who was also certified as the owner of the castle property in 1834.

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. 116 f.
  • Ulrich Bockshammer: Older Territorial History of the County of Waldeck, Elwert, Marburg 1958, p. 232 f.
  • Gottfried Ganßauge, Walter Kramm, Wolfgang Medding: The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Kassel. New episode, Volume 3: Circle of the Iron Mountain. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1939, p. 62 digitized online

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The coordinates given here are approximate.
  2. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, holdings Document 81 No. 3
  3. ↑ Landgrave Regesta online No. 228
  4. ^ Joseph Prinz (arrangement): Westfälisches Urkundenbuch, Volume 9, Lfg. 4: The documents of the Diocese of Paderborn 1301 - 1325. Regensberg, Münster, 1986, ISBN 3-402-05996-7 , pp. 953-954, no. 1990
  5. ↑ HStAM Fund Certificate 85 No. 2411
  6. ↑ HStAM Fund, Document 85 No. 2415
  7. ↑ HStAM Fund, Document 85 No. 2624
  8. ↑ HStAM Fund Certificate 85 No. 5318
  9. ↑ HStAM Fund, Document 85 No. 2419
  10. ↑ This later became Landdrost of Count Philip III. von Waldeck-Eisenberg and from 1536 councilor and court master of Franz von Waldeck , brother of Philip III, who had become bishop of Minden in 1530 and also bishop of Osnabrück and bishop of Münster in 1532 .
  11. ↑ HStAM Fund, Document 85 No 2423
  12. ↑ HStAM Fund, Document 85 No. 10829
  13. ↑ The Counts of Waldeck were owned by Emperor Karl VI in 1712 . was raised to the hereditary prince's rank.
  14. ↑ Also with the tithe to Eppe , a Hufe to Langeln , the Winkelhof to Goddelsheim and lands near Korbach ( HStAM Fonds, Urk. 85 No. 7881 ).
  15. ↑ HstAM Fund 121 No. 5741