Haiger Castle

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Haiger Castle
Creation time : First mentioned in 1158 or 1159
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: departed
Place: Haiger

The castle Haiger is an Outbound Wasserburg south of the town church (in the area of today's castle street ) in the city Haiger in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse .

The castle was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Haiger; a Udo von Haiger was first mentioned in 1158 (or 1159) when the Archbishop of Trier enfeoffed the Counts of Laurenburg with Nassau Castle . The time and builder of the castle are not known. It is possible, however, that it is a royal fiefdom of a royal court of the East Franconian Konrad I , who is mentioned in a document in 914, as Konrad of the church in Weilburg (the Walpurgis monastery ) a baptismal church with his court Haiger in Gau Haiger including the tithe , the market and the third part of the Left King Sheffel.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, the court and sovereignty rests with the von Molsberg family . Of these, Count Heinrich I of Nassau acquired the rule in 1311 and 1321 . When the Dillenburg line of Nassau was divided in 1425, Count Johann III. the castle was awarded as a residence.

In 1455 the castle came back to the Lords of Haiger as an inheritance . Hermann von Haiger († 1495) and his son Jost, the last male descendant of von Haiger, had the choir of the Haiger church painted by fresco painters around 1490 . About 90 years later, the choir room was redesigned and the frescoes whitewashed and were completely forgotten. So they survived the great fire of 1723. In the first years of the 20th century they were rediscovered and restored. Today they are among the most important art treasures in the Lahn-Dill area.

After the von Haiger family had expired in the male line in 1511, the fiefdom of the Counts of Nassau was withdrawn as settled.

In 1617 the castle was completely dilapidated, no longer habitable and completely demolished by stone robbery. Today the former castle complex can no longer be precisely located.

Historical images from the beginning of the 17th century indicate a tower-like building, such as a residential tower , south of the church.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Haiger, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of December 9, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ to www.haiger.de: From the history of the city of Haiger ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 12, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haiger.de
  3. ↑ Michael Schmidt: Reverentia and Magnificentia: Historicity in the architecture of southern Germany, Austria and Bohemia from the 14th to 17th centuries , Schnell and Steiner, 1999, p. 113

Web links

  • Entry on Haiger Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  • Entry on Haiger in the private database "Alle Burgen".