Hohenrode Castle (Hohenrode)
| Hohenrode Castle | ||
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 View from the northwest of the wooded castle area; |
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| Alternative name (s): | Hünenburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1170 | |
| Castle type : | Heights and ramparts | |
| Conservation status: | Moat, remains of walls, ramparts | |
| Place: | Rinteln- Hohenrode | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 9 '41.3 " N , 9 ° 9' 27.6" E | |
| Height: | 230.2 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Hohenrode even Hünenburg called in Hohenrode in Lower Saxony Schaumburg is a ruin of a medieval height and Wallburg in Lipper Bergland .
Geographical location
Hohenrode Castle is located in the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln Nature Park, 1.4 km (as the crow flies ) south-southeast of the village church of the Hohenrode district of Rinteln . It is located in the Lipper Bergland belonging Rumbecker heights on the 230.2 m above sea level. NHN high mountain Hünenburg , a northern branch of the Rumbeck mountain ( 344.5 m ). In northerly directions the landscape slopes down into the valley of the Weser flowing at the foot of the mountain .
History and description
As early as 1130, the Counts of Roden had set up a base above the Weser with the Roden Castle near nearby Hessisch Oldendorf . Hohenrode Castle was built by Count Konrad I von Roden around 1170. According to different reports, Schaumburg troops under Count Adolf III were destroyed in 1180 or 1181. von Schaumburg the castle, since Konrad I was part of Duke Heinrich the Lion .
The castle area encompasses a 55 by 100 m area with a large plateau, which is limited in places by double, deep moats with remains of masonry overgrown by bushes . Inside the complex there are funnel-shaped depressions that indicate buildings that were once built with a cellar. There are also traces of a tower and remains of an inner transverse wall.
Excavations took place between 1932 and 1934, and various iron objects such as parts of knives and scissors came to light. When found ceramic to let ball pot ware in the 12th century date, while earthenware and Siegburg stoneware later periods is attributed. The ceramic finds testify that the castle was used after its destruction from 1180 or 1181 until the 14th century. After that, most of the remains of the castle visible above ground were removed by stone robbery.
Traffic and walking
The Hohenburg castle ruins can, for example, be hiked from Hohenrode. There is a parking lot at the end of the Hünenburgstraße, which branches off from the country road ( Landesstraße 433) that branches off towards the south . From there a narrow path leads up through the forest to the ruin, which can also be reached from Rinteln- Exten on a longer geological nature trail.
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann on Hohenrode Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Hohenrode Castle (Burgenwelt) , on 3d-worlds.de
- The Hünenburg near Hohenrode ( Memento from February 15, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ), from teleos-web.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c d e Hohenrode Castle (Burgenwelt) (panel on the castle), on 3d-worlds.de
- ^ A b Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Schaumburger Land - Burgenland. in the series: Guide to the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony . (29), Oldenburg 2010, published by the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation and the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony , ISBN 978-3-89995-673-3 .