Linsingen Castle

Linsingen Castle
Creation time :	11th or 12th century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Local nobility
Place:	Lentil singing
Geographical location	50 ° 57 '42.5 "  N , 9 ° 16' 58.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '42.5 "  N , 9 ° 16' 58.3"  E
Height:	274  m above sea level NHN

The castle Linsingen is an Outbound castle complex in the small village Linsingen , a district of Frielendorf in northern Hesse Schwalm-Eder-Kreis .

The castle, ancestral seat of the original noble family of the von Linsingen family , presumably stood at a height of 274  m on a spur-like step on the site of today's village church. Since the area there was swampy - it is now drained by four small streams - it was probably a moated castle . It was abandoned in the 12th century, probably when the Linsinger people built their new, second family castle, Jesberg Castle . It is not known whether the castle in Linsingen was forcibly destroyed or fell into disrepair after its abandonment; There are no visible remains of it today.

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 2nd edition, Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 160

Web links

• Entry by Stefan Eismann zu Linsingen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Linsingen Castle, Schwalm-Eder district, in the historical local dictionary of Hesse

Footnotes

1. ↑ Felix von and zu Gilsa: Historical writings on the castles Schönstein and Jesberg , series of writings from Heimat- u. Geschichtsvereins Jesberg eV 2009, vol. 5, pp. 49–51, certificate from 1241 on p. 50.