Hunsgeweide Castle

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Hunsgeweide Castle
Alternative name (s): Husgeweid Castle (e), Vockenrode
Creation time : around 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Remnants of foundations, remains of trenches
Place: Amöneburg- Rudigheim
Geographical location 50 ° 46 '56.6 "  N , 8 ° 58' 19.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '56.6 "  N , 8 ° 58' 19.6"  E
Height: 200  m above sea level NHN
Hunsgeweide Castle (Hesse)
Hunsgeweide Castle

The castle Hunsgeweide , also Husgeweide , is the ruin of a low castle near the district Rüdigheim of the small town Amöneburg in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf in Hesse .

The castle is located east-northeast of Rüdigheim in the direction of and close to the boundary of the largest Stadtallendorf district, Niederklein, in a valley floor that has been swamped by numerous springs on a small, almost round hill.

From the castle, which was built in the 12th century, only remains of the foundations of the residential tower , moat and wall remains. Presumably it was a lost moated castle , the remains of which indicate the size of a small tower castle or a moth . In the same corridor, the Husgeweide desert is assumed, from which the ore monastery of Mainz draws income from fields as documented in 1332 and later . During the excavations that took place from 1958 to 1960, a Merovingian Age cremation grave with additions was found in the corridor .

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 253-254.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is also the current field name: "Auf dem Husgeweid"