Forst Castle

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Forst Castle
Notice board at the location

Notice board at the location

Creation time : around 1283
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, earthworks
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Stadtallendorf
Geographical location 50 ° 49 '32.2 "  N , 9 ° 4' 37.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '32.2 "  N , 9 ° 4' 37.6"  E
Height: 265  m above sea level NHN
Forst Castle (Hesse)
Forst Castle

The Castle Forest is an Outbound Wasserburg on the " deserted forest" to the forest in the eastern district of Stadtallendorf direction Gleim grove and between low-Klein and New Town in Marburg-Biedenkopf in Hessen .

history

In 1283, Ludwig de Forest is mentioned as the likely builder of the castle , and in the 14th century the lords of Gleimenhain are owners. In 1478 the castle was already desolate and went to Hans von Dörnberg . The castle fell into disrepair, and in 1563 it was agreed with the Archdiocese of Mainz that it would no longer be built.

The castle is assumed to be an approximately square fortification with an external length of about 16 meters. A rectangular building with a side length of 4 meters should be able to be proven in it. The moat is still preserved from the former castle complex ; Overgrown walls can still be seen from the curtain wall and the residential tower .

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse - 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites . 3. Edition. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 249-250.
  • Georg Landau: Historical-topographical description of the desert towns in the Electorate of Hesse . 1st reprint (facsimile) of the edition Kassel, Fischer, 1858 / ed. by Dieter Carl, Publisher: Historische Ed. Carl, Vellmar 1999, ISBN 978-3-9806580-1-0 , Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies Kassel 1834: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies / Supplement; 7, pp. 268-269
  • Horst Kern: Geographical settlement research in the Amöneburg Basin and its peripheral areas: a contribution to research into the development of the medieval cultural landscape in North Hesse (Marburger geographische Schriften, Geogr. Inst. Der Univ. Marburg H. 27), 1966, pp. 182-185.
  • Historical local dictionary of the State of Hesse , part 3: Historical local dictionary Marburg , Former District and urban district / edit. by Ulrich Reuling, Publisher: Elwert Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-7708-0678-6

Web links

Commons : Burg Forst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Lagis web link