Gasterfeld Castle

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Gasterfeld Castle
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Niederungsburg ( tower castle )
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Local nobility
Place: Wolfhagen
Geographical location 51 ° 19 '48 "  N , 9 ° 8' 14.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '48 "  N , 9 ° 8' 14.6"  E
Height: 271  m above sea level NHN
Gasterfeld Castle (Hesse)
Gasterfeld Castle

The castle Gaster field was a small noble residence in the first mentioned in 1074 and in the 14th century desolate fallen village Gaster field in today's district of the North Hessian city Wolfhagen , Kassel district . Presumably it was a bower or a small moated castle .

Geographical location

The castle was located not far west of the village, about 1 km south-southeast of the Philippinendorf settlement founded in 1778 (today Gasterfeld ) at an altitude of 271  m in the valley floor of the Dusebach on its southern bank, immediately east of the Wolfhager Landwehr against the county of Waldeck . Today the federal highway 450 runs from Wolfhagen to Landau about 600 m northeast . The district road 106 from Wolfhagen to Bühle runs about 500 m south. Today an asphalt dirt road crosses the place of the disappeared village.

history

The village was the ancestral seat of the noble family von Gasterfeld, first documented in 1151 with the nobility of Gasterfeld, who exchanged real estate with the Hasungen monastery that year . In the first quarter of the 13th century, the brothers Heinrich and Eberhard (Eckhard) built by Gaster field east of Wolfhagen on the Helfenberg the castle Helfenberg and moved their residence there. From around 1240 the family then called themselves " von Helfenberg ".

Whether the castle in Gasterfeld, which was abandoned by its owners, fell into disrepair or whether it, like Helfenberg Castle, was held by Hessian troops during the armed conflict between Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse and the Archdiocese of Mainz or during Landgrave Heinrich's campaign against his claim to sovereignty Was destroyed in 1293 is not known. The village initially remained populated. In 1351 a house is mentioned, but in 1406 at the latest it was desolate.

The male line of the Lords von Gasterfeld and Helfenberg became extinct with Rudolph V. von Helfenberg in 1414. As early as 1409, he had not yet given his entire family to Landgrave Hermann II of Hesse (e.g. to the Aroldessen monastery ) Ownership, including the castle and the desert of Gasterfeld, was transferred and the landgrave moved the place together with the ruined castle as a fallen fiefdom .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ On the considerable and widely scattered property holdings of the noble free von Gasterfeld-Helfenberg around the middle of the 13th century, see Wolfgang Metz: Goods registers, servizien ordinances and related sources of the high Middle Ages from Northern Hesse. Archive for diplomacy, written history, seal and heraldry, 37th volume, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, 1991, pp. 78–84

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