Freienhagen Castle

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Freienhagen Castle
Creation time : around 1251, first mentioned in 1354
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Waldeck - Freienhagen
Geographical location 51 ° 16 '36.6 "  N , 9 ° 3' 42.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '36.6 "  N , 9 ° 3' 42.9"  E
Height: 418  m above sea level NHN
Freienhagen Castle (Hesse)
Freienhagen Castle

The castle Freienhagen is an abandoned castle on the western edge of Freienhagen at 418  m above sea level. NN , a district of Waldeck in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

history

The exact time of origin is not known. It was probably a with a moat secure stone house, a bower , which (also Vrienhayn) through which, in the foundation of the town "Vrigenhagen" Waldecker Count Adolf I. was built in the 1251st The castle, occupied by Burgmanns , was first mentioned in documents in 1354. Around 1360 the castle and town came into the joint ownership of the Archdiocese of Mainz and the Hessian Landgrave Heinrich II. In 1369, Adolf von Itter was confirmed as hereditary castle man by both parties.

In the later disputes between Hesse and Mainz, the town and castle fell entirely to Hesse. The Hessian landgraves gave the city to the Waldecker counts as a fief . Count Wolrad I. von Waldeck pledged the place to Kurt von Viermund in the 15th century , but redeemed this pledge in 1472. Presumably the Hessian sovereignty had already been lost by this time. Freienhagen was the seat of an office. In 1578 half of it went to the Landau office .

It is not known when the castle was abandoned or perhaps destroyed and then fell into disrepair. It is believed that it was also destroyed in the great city fire in 1780. Visible remains of the wall are no longer there. It is not certain whether the old foundations of a residential building belonged to the castle.

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. 115.

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