Gieselwerder Castle

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Gieselwerder Castle
Town hall, former castle

Town hall, former castle

Creation time : 11th and 12th centuries
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of the wall
Place: Wesertal - Gieselwerder
Geographical location 51 ° 36 '0.5 "  N , 9 ° 33' 5.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '0.5 "  N , 9 ° 33' 5.8"  E
Height: 108  m above sea level NN
Gieselwerder Castle (Hesse)
Gieselwerder Castle

The Gieselwerder Castle is a lost moated castle on the Weser in the Gieselwerder district of the Wesertal municipality in the Kassel district in Hesse .

history

Castle and castle town from Topographia Hassiae (1655), probably after an engraving by Wilhelm Dilich from 1605
Model of the former castle complex
Cannonball found on the Weser Bridge

Already in the 11th century there was a small moated castle with a manor house , keep and a few outbuildings on the former Weser island "Gieselwerder" .

From around 1231 the castle belonged to the Mainz bishop Siegfried III. This put the Counts of Dassel as castle men . He also won Burgmannen from the castles Schöneberg and Ziegenberg . Mainz lost the castle under Bishop Gerhard I in 1257 in a feud against the Guelph Albrecht the Great . Even after that, the possession of the castle was disputed several times.

The castle served the Lords of Werder as their official residence until 1538 . When this was then moved to the Sababurg , the court and the customs office for water and land customs remained . The now uninhabited Gieselwerder fell into disrepair. At the beginning of the 18th century, a half-timbered house was built on this square , which has housed the renting business since 1851 . A lightning strike hit the building on Ascension Day in 1913 and it burned down. The half-timbered house that exists today was built just one year later. From 1954 to 1965 it housed the forestry office . The community of Gieselwerder acquired the building in 1967 and has since used it as the town hall for the entire community.

In 1899 the construction of the first bridge over the Weser began. During the work on it, remains of oak planks were found on the Wesergrund , in which several iron cannon balls from the time of the Thirty Years' War were stuck. One of the spheres can be seen in the courtyard of the former castle.

From the Wasserburg still are parts of the perimeter wall and the foundations of the keep received.

literature

  • Rudolf cap: Medieval castles in Hessen . 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications p. 13f.
  • Friedrich Pfaff: Burg Gieselwerder , In: Hessenland. Journal for Hessian History and Literature 22 (1908), pp. 30–33, 45–48, 61–62.

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