Confidence of friends castle

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Confidence of friends castle
Creation time : urk. End of the 14th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Uradel
Place: Hatzfeld
Geographical location 50 ° 59 ′ 14.5 "  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 46.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 14.5 "  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 46.5"  E
Height: 525  m above sea level NHN
Freundetrost Castle (Hesse)
Confidence of friends castle

The castle joy consolation is an Outbound hilltop castle on a 525  m above sea level. NN high hilltop not far from the Eder 3.5 km west-southwest of the town of Hatzfeld in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district ( Hesse ). It lies directly on today's border with the neighboring state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

From the castle, which was owned by the Lords of Hatzfeld , there was a direct line of sight to Hatzfeld Castle .

The castle can only be documented twice: In 1396 Kraft VI. von Hatzfeld was appointed Burgmann von Hallenberg by the Archbishop of Cologne and in return granted him the right to open his shares in the castle and town of Hatzfeld and the neighboring castle Vrundtetrost (Freundetrost). On October 17, 1548, Jörgen von Hatzfeld was given 24 guilders as Arnsburg castle fief in a similar way in an Electoral Cologne fiefdom protocol, again against the opening of the castle and town of Hatzfeld and the nearby Freundetrost Castle

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 .
  • Jens Friedhoff : Castles, palaces and aristocratic residences in the Hessian hinterland . Published by the Hinterland History Association, 2018, p. 201.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burgfreunde consolation Waldeck-Frankenberg. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of April 29, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 28, 2012 .
  2. ↑ entry to friends consolation in the private database "All Castles".
  3. ↑ Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners . Vlg.JJBohne, Kassel 1839, Volume 4, p. 139 .
  4. ↑ Anton Fahne von Roland: History of the Dynasts, Barons and Counts of Bocholtz , Volume 1, Part 2, Cologne 1859, pp. 59/60 .