Hessberg Castle
| Hessberg Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Hesseburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1000 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Hessberg | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 25 '4.6 " N , 10 ° 46' 11.2" E | |
| Height: | 380 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Heßberg is an Outbound high medieval lowland castle on the right bank of the Werra , about three kilometers east of the present district town of Hildburghausen in Thuringia . The castle was located to the west of the church and was the ancestral seat of the noble von Heßberg family of the same name . Small remains of the wall, which can be attributed to the castle complex, were located under the former school building and to the west of the church.
description
The castle complex was built as the successor to a small hilltop castle on the "Heßberger Leite", which was on the other side of the river - its location is located in the literature on the Wartenberg, in the 19th century remains of walls and a well were found during excavations. The place name Hesseburg is mentioned for the first time in 1168 , the associated castle is said to have been built around the year 1000.
Structural details of the castle complex, which was completely destroyed by demolition around 1819, have been handed down, which are reproduced in detail in Paul Lehfeld's monument guide:
- The oldest part of the old castle was a square, two-storey tower, to which a circular building by Adam and Diez von Hessberg has been attached since 1429 (?). The end of this bore the year 1481. (...) From then on, the stables were there on the ground floor; In the wall of the east building a staircase led down to a room for archives and the laying out of noble corpses. An entrance on the drawbridge , overbuilt with two stone arches, led past the castle dungeon; then a sloping path to the stables and the castle courtyard. Southwest next to the so-called. Kitchen was a draw well . From the east entrance, wide wooden stairs led to the upper floor, initially to a wide corridor that led around almost the entire building inside. The two largest rooms on the upper floor were the library and the knight's hall, both painted red and with small windows framed in round panes.
At the instigation of Carl von Hessberg, the castle was demolished from 1817 to 1819. The so-called “mansion” was rebuilt on the same property with the usable part of the building material. It was a simple building, surrounded by a garden. The moat was filled with the remaining demolition material, the dimensions of which were still visible as depressions in the terrain. The building was sold in 1859/60 to the Eisenach industrial dynasty of Eichel-Streiber . Nothing is left today, as the building was demolished in 1948 during the time of the Soviet occupation .
According to tradition and founding legend of the von Heßberg family, a Hessian knight Hasso died in the Fulda monastery in 804 , he was a follower of Emperor Karl. His descendants received possessions and privileges from the emperor. In the vicinity of the emerging Veilsdorf monastery , the Heßbergers were able to use their influence as guardians of the monastery to gradually acquire and use their own goods and lands in the monastery villages, which they mostly received in return for their services. The knights were related by marriage to the Veilsdorf local nobility .
literature
- Fritz Kühnlenz: Experiences on the Werra. Local history walks. Greifenverlag , Rudolstadt 1973, pp. 72-73.
- Armin Human: Chronicle of Hessberg: written for the community . Schwessinger, Hildburghausen 1878, p. 112 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Brückner: The topography of the country . In: Country studies of the Duchy of Meinigen . tape 2 . Brückner and Renner, Meinigen 1853, p. 298 .
- ↑ a b c Hildburghausen Local Court District . In: Paul Lehfeldt (Ed.): Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia. Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. Hildburghausen district . Issue XXXIX. Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena 1903, p. 26-32 .
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 138 .
- ^ Thomas Bienert: "Veilsdorf, OT Heßberg, Burgstelle" - Medieval castles in Thuringia . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 117 .