Hassloch Castle

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Hassloch Castle
Alternative name (s): Hassloch, Haselach Castle (e), Haselahe Castle, Hasloch, Haseloch
Creation time : from 1331
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Rüsselsheim - Haßloch
Geographical location 49 ° 59 '2.7 "  N , 8 ° 27' 25.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '2.7 "  N , 8 ° 27' 25.1"  E
Height: 90  m above sea level NN
Haßloch Castle (Hesse)
Hassloch Castle

The castle Hassloch is an Outbound Wasserburg on the southeastern part of today's district Haßloch the city of Rüsselsheim am Main in Gross-Gerau district in Hesse .

location

Today's property is located southeast of the center of today's Haßloch district, about two kilometers south of Rüsselsheim within earshot of the Rüsselsheim triangle in the Rhine-Main area . The moated castle was located at the end of today's dead-end street Am Burggraben . At the time it was built it was at the southern end of the village of Haßloch. City and Castle are eastward from the Old Main - loop , the Horlache surrounded.

history

Originally there was only a courtyard at this point, but in 1155/58 the courtyard, owned by the Mainz monastery of Sankt Alban , was sold to the Rheingau monastery of Eberbach . 1162 or 1177 confirmed Pope Alexander III. the monastery Eberbach the property of their court in Hassloch. The governors of the area at the beginning of the 13th century were the lords of Eschollbrücken , named Rupert von Eschollbrücken , in the service of the lords of Rieneck , who in turn were subject to Mainz. With the death of Rupert von Eschollbrücken , the bailiwick reverted to Mainz , but then came completely to the Eberbach monastery, as it paid the full redemption sum.

In 1331, Kuno von Falkenstein acquired the estate and the associated bailiwick, which was conveniently located near old roads, in exchange for the tithe to Ober-Eschbach and Dorf-Güll . He wore yard and Bailiwick the monastery of Fulda to feud on. Kuno von Falkenstein built a moated castle at the location of the court . This moated castle developed into a robber barn's nest to the detriment of passing merchants , which above all harmed Trier and Mainz interests. The Archbishop of Trier , Baldwin of Luxembourg , had the castle destroyed in 1352. Although the later Emperor Charles IV announced a rebuilding ban on the Mainz court day in 1353 , Kuno and Philipp von Falkenstein renewed the castle and continued their raids. As early as 1355, a contingent of the imperial city of Frankfurt destroyed parts of the castle again. Charles IV issued an order from Pisa that forbade the Falkensteiners to rebuild Haseloch as a castle with towers, walls and ditches.

Although all of Haßloch was owned by the Falkensteiners in 1356, the Archbishop of Mainz Gerlach von Nassau had the castle occupied in a coup in the same year in the course of a feud with Kuno von Falkenstein ; Protests by the Falkensteiners at the council of the imperial city did not help and the archbishop also received the right to found a city from Emperor Karl IV. This never happened, but the archbishops of Mainz remained the owners of the place and castle until 1803. Kurmainz had the castle renewed and occupied it with castle men . 1358 of these the nobleman Konrad von Nassau is documented as a burgrave .

Quickly lost in importance in the following centuries, the castle was finally destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . The remains of the ruin were used to rebuild the place, the trenches silted up. In 1805 the remains of the castle were purchased by the municipality. Until 1815 the foundation walls were up to man height, the moat, supposedly carved into the rock, was still filled with water. After 1844 none of it was visible anymore. A building erected on top of it served as a rectory in the middle of the 19th century (a branch of Flörsheim ).

investment

The square moated castle had a side length of about 43 meters. After the destruction in the Thirty Years' War , the remains of the ruins were removed for stone extraction. Today only remains of trenches , remains of foundations (which were set in the building of the old people's home) and the remains of a two-shell fountain are preserved. A newer development, now used as a retirement home, stands on the property, which has been built over several times.

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 , p. 513 f.
  • Johann Philipp Benkard: Haselache Castle , In: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art , Volume 8 (1858), pp. 93-99 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen , p. 514
  2. ↑ a b Benkard: Haselache Castle , p. 94
  3. ↑ Haßloch, Groß-Gerau district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 16, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Benkard: Haselache Castle , p. 95
  5. ^ Anton Kirchner: History of the City of Frankfurt am Main , Volume 1 (in it: Sixth Book, Fourth Calendar up to 1519: Haselach broken ) Frankfurt am Main 1807, p. 278
  6. ↑ Benkard: Haselache Castle , p. 96 f.
  7. ^ Benkard: Haselache Castle , p. 98
  8. ^ Benkard: Haselache Castle , p. 99