Helmighausen Castle

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Helmighausen Castle
Creation time : unknown
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Remains of the moat
Standing position : Nobility, Lehnsburg
Place: Diemelstadt - Helmighausen
Geographical location 51 ° 28 '10.9 "  N , 8 ° 55' 35.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '10.9 "  N , 8 ° 55' 35.8"  E
Height: 294  m above sea level NHN
Helmighausen Castle (Hesse)
Helmighausen Castle

The castle Helmighausen was one that today almost completely disappeared, Wasserburg in Helmighausen , a district of Diemelstadt in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg . Only a small part of the moat is left of the former moat .

history

The castle was located 294  m above sea level in the south of Helmighausen, west of the state road L 3198, where the house Neudorfer Straße 16 stands today. The appearance of the former moated castle, secured by ramparts and ditches, is unknown. Their moats were fed by the 3.7 km long Diemel tributary Kallenthal . Although it had probably been built long before, the castle was first mentioned in 1544 when Count Wolrad II von Waldeck gave it as a fief to his bailiff in Eilhausen , Johann Milchling von Schönstadt ; it had previously been in the feudal possession of the Lords of Thülen , who probably also built the castle. The Milchling von Schönstadt family held the castle for several centuries, but also pledged it temporarily, for example in 1604 Johann Gerben and his wife Elisabeth.

Demolition and today's facility

In the years 1697–1700 they had the old castle torn down and built a manor with a manor house with a splendid baroque portal that bears the year 1697 in its place . An alliance coat of arms of the Milchling von Schönstadt and Schenck zu Schweinsberg families, later used, shows the year 1757. A coat of arms stone on the semicircular tower building attached to the east gable side in 1917 bears the year 1700. The two-story, six-axis mansion consists of a massive ground floor made of ashlar and a half-timbered upper floor . The two windows to the right and left of the portal are pointed arched lattice windows , the others on both floors are rectangular. In the center above the portal is a low dwelling with a triangular gable and two small windows.

On the west side of the courtyard, at right angles to the manor house, there is the administrator's house from 1710, a two-storey stone building with five window axes and a baroque portal.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ According to an entry in "Alle Burgen", it was mentioned as early as 1298 (entry on Helmighausen, disappeared moated castle in the private database "Alle Burgen". Accessed on June 16, 2020).
  2. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg holdings Urk. 85 No. 6519
  3. ↑ The Milchling von Schönstadt were a branch of the Milchling family from Treis an der Lumda , which had split into the Milchling von Schönstadt, Nordeck zur Rabenau and Schutzbar called Milchling lines . (Thomas Weyrauch: The city of Giessen and its surroundings under Captain Caspar von Schutzbar. Messages from the Upper Hessian History Association Gießen, year 73, 1988, pp. 63–83, here p. 65, ISSN  0342-1198 )
  4. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, inventory 340, Milchling von Schönstadt, No. 308

literature

  • Folkhard Cremer (edit.): Handbook of German Art Monuments. Volume 1, Hessen: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 394.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3rd edition, Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 119.
  • Gottfried Ganßauge et al. (Arr.): Circle of Twiste. (The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel, new series, vol. 2). Elwert, Marburg, 1938, DNB 452578841 , p. 117.
  • Heinrich Bodenhausen (arr.): Helmighausen. The story of a village in the north of the Waldecker Land. Self-published by the Helmighausen Local Advisory Board, Diemelstadt, 1993, ISBN 3-9803271-1-6
  • Hans and Doris Maresch: Hesse's palaces and castles. Husum Verlag, Husum, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89876-158-1

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