Haldessen Castle

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Haldessen Castle
Creation time : around 1300
Castle type : Niederungsburg ( tower castle )
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : clergy
Place: Grebenstein
Geographical location 51 ° 28 '6.8 "  N , 9 ° 26' 32.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '6.8 "  N , 9 ° 26' 32.5"  E
Height: 255  m above sea level NHN
Haldessen Castle (Hesse)
Haldessen Castle

The castle Haldessen is an Outbound lowland castle in the district of the city Grebenstein in Kassel district in northern Hesse , Germany .

Location and condition

The castle, the location of which was clearly determined during excavations in 1962, stood on a flat 255  m above sea level. NN hill near the Oberhalalis farm, roughly between Udenhausen , today's district of Grebenstein, and Carlsdorf , today's district of Hofgeismar . Remains of the castle are said to have been recognizable at the beginning of the 19th century; today nothing is left. Today a linden tree stands on the small remnant of the hill of the castle stable .

history

The castle was built in the first years of the 14th century by the Archbishopric of Mainz near the Grebensteiner Landwehr , as a bulwark against the Grebenstein Castle and the city of Grebenstein acquired by the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1297 and to control the roads there. On April 30, 1303, Archbishop Gerhard II of Eppstein pledged the newly built castle to Dietrich and Konrad von Haldessen , who, however, had to undertake to support the archbishop against everyone and to keep the castle open to everyone. Archbishop Peter von Aspelt redeemed the castle in 1314 and transferred it with the associated goods to the Ministerial Rabe von Calenberg as compensation. In the following years the originally only small castle was expanded and its crew strengthened in order to be able to better protect the Mainz villages in front of the Reinhardswald against Hessian attacks. In 1335 Mainz had, in addition to two castle men from Haldessen and three from Twiste, 27 other knights, 42 servants and 24 people servants and servants at the castle.

Nevertheless, the castle was conquered and destroyed by Landgrave Heinrich II in 1339 . Soon rebuilt, it fell into Hessian hands again in 1346/47 during the Mainz Schism (1346-1353) when Landgrave Heinrich II broke the dispute between the previous Archbishop Heinrich III. von Virneburg and his rival Gerlach von Nassau , newly appointed by the Pope , used to strengthen his own position in Lower Hesse . In 1350, the Hessians besieged the castle again and forced the occupation to surrender. After the death of Heinrich von Virneburg in 1353 and the end of the hostilities between Mainz and Hesse, the castle was to be razed immediately , in accordance with the conditions of the Atonement Treaty of May 10, 1354. This did not happen, however, as both sides only partially met their contractual obligations.

The struggle for territorial supremacy in Niederhessen continued. In 1365, Landgrave Heinrich had to hand the castle back to Mainz, but it was conquered again by Hesse in a new feud. Archbishop Friedrich III appointed as arbitrator . von Cologne decided in 1385 that the castle should be repaired and again delivered to the Mainz people. This happened, but this obligation only lasted until 1399. At that time, the strength of the archbishopric in relation to the strengthening Hesse had visibly diminished, and the castle probably no longer played a serious military role. As early as 1400, the former Mainz estates in Oberhalzut had come to the Hessian Sababurg , and in the battles of 1403 for Hofgeismar and the Sababurg, the Haldessen Castle, which was probably also again in Hessian possession, was no longer mentioned.

A document from 1425 says that the Archbishop of Mainz was hindered by the Landgrave at the Landwehr, at the guard and at the ditch near Oberhalalis. From this it can be concluded that only the tower (i.e. the control room) remained of the castle.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 15.
  • Kurt Günther: Where was Haldessen Castle? In: ZHG (Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies) No. 74, Kassel 1963, p. 192.

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