Frauenberg Castle (Hesse)

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Frauenberg Castle
Frauenberg castle ruins from the outside

Frauenberg castle ruins from the outside

Creation time : 1252
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : duchess
Place: Ebsdorfergrund - Frauenberg
Geographical location 50 ° 45 '22.7 "  N , 8 ° 47' 15"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '22.7 "  N , 8 ° 47' 15"  E
Height: 370  m above sea level NHN
Frauenberg Castle (Hesse)
Frauenberg Castle
Frauenberg castle ruins from the inside

The Castle Frauenberg is the ruins of a medieval hilltop castle in the district Beltershausen near Frauenberg , in the municipality of Ebsdorfergrund in central Hesse Marburg-Biedenkopf .

Geographical location

The ruin is located in the Lahn Mountains about 6 kilometers south of Marburg and 500 m southwest of the village of Frauenberg on the basalt cone of the Frauenberg ( 379.4  m above sea  level ), at an altitude of 370  m . The Frauenberg nature reserve near Beltershausen is located on the Frauenberg, where basalt was mined until 1913 . The strategically important trunk road "through the long Hesse" used to run past the castle.

history

Around 1250 the castle was built by order of the Duchess Sophie von Brabant , daughter of Saint Elisabeth and mother of the still underage Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse , to secure Marburg , to create a counter position to the Mainz castle of Amöneburg and to create the "Long Hesse" to monitor. Documented the castle was until 1296. The castle was Burgmannen busy, in the episode of Frauynberg called. Probably it is a sideline of the Rau von Holzhausen . With the construction of the castle, a Frauenberg court was also created, which became an office from 1350 and was combined with the Kirchhain office in 1604.

The castle was pledged several times in the 14th century, including to the Riedesel and von Dernbach families . In 1350 the castle became the seat of the Hessian office of Frauenberg, which was combined with the office of Kirchhain in 1604 .

The castle lost its strategic importance in 1437 at the latest after the Landgraves of Hesse had finally defeated the Archbishops of Mainz in 1427 and in 1450 also came into the possession of the County of Ziegenhain . Nevertheless, it was destroyed twice in the sequence in 1470 and 1489; the reasons for this are not clear. The complex was still partially inhabited until 1528. After that it gradually fell into disrepair and served the residents of the surrounding villages as a source of building materials.

The castle ruins have been used for tourism since the late 18th century. Caroline Schelling mentioned several stays at the ruin in her letters. In 1873 the gate of the castle complex was restored. The mountain and castle ruins have belonged to the city of Marburg since 1906 and are freely accessible.

investment

The former castle complex is only preserved in small parts today. These include the partially dilapidated triangular tower, a seven-meter-high inner and outer curtain wall and some moats . From the fenced wall of the castle ruins you have a good panoramic view of the Ebsdorfer Grund and the Amöneburg basin.

View from Frauenberg in a south-easterly direction into the Lahn valley and Bortshausen.

literature

  • Michael Losse: Castles and palaces on the Lahn . Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-070-9 .
  • 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. 250.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 88f.

Web links

Commons : Burg Frauenberg (Hessen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Knappe: Mitt.Burgen in Hessen , p. 250