Meineringhausen Castle

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Meineringhausen Castle
Creation time : unknown
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Local nobility
Place: Meineringhausen
Geographical location 51 ° 15 '18.2 "  N , 8 ° 56' 51"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '18.2 "  N , 8 ° 56' 51"  E
Height: 327  m above sea level NHN
Meineringhausen Castle (Hesse)
Meineringhausen Castle

The castle My Ringshausen is an Outbound Wasserburg in My Ringshausen , a suburb of Korbach in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg . The small castle was located at 327 m above sea ​​level south of the Walme on the eastern edge of the village, near the federal road 251 . There are no structural remains of the medieval castle left.

history

Little is known about the history of the castle. It was probably a small moated castle or moth that was loaned to feudal men by Corvey Abbey . It is not known who built the castle and when it was built; possibly it was the "Cesarius de Menerinchusen" mentioned in 1240 or already one of his ancestors. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Wederewe family owned goods in Meineringhausen, including the castle. In 1460, Count Wolrad I von Waldeck - the Counts of Waldeck had wrested a large part of their territorial possessions from the Corvey Abbey in Waldeck's sphere of influence since the 13th century - Heinrich von Immighausen (Henrich von.) Drowned the village along with lower jurisdiction , tithe and services to the land Ymmekusen) for life, half as pledge, half by grace; the castle seat may have been included.

With the death of Heinrich von Immighausen, his male line died out towards the end of the 15th century and Count Philipp II von Waldeck -Eisenberg then gave the castle seat and village as pledge to his ministerial Hermann von Wolmeringhausen , who had been court master of the count since 1481 . In 1496, the castle and the associated estate were also enfeoffed by Corvey. Hermann von Wolmeringhausen was first followed by his son Johann, then his son Hermann II as the feudal owner. The castle buildings fell victim to a fire in 1570, and Otto von Wolmeringhausen , son of Hermann II, had a new castle built with a moat , palisade and drawbridge . According to Curtze, the “noble castle house” was still surrounded by palisades, moats and drawbridges in 1636 and was still a fiefdom from Corvey Abbey.

When the von Wolmeringhausen family with Johann Otto von Wolmeringhausen died out in 1635, half of the fiefdom in Meineringhausen was to go to his two daughters: Mechthild, who also inherited the Malberg estate, and Anna Elisabeth, who also received Oberalme . Curt von Twiste , who had married Mechthild, the older sister, took possession of the property in Meineringhausen and also received the loan from Corvey. This resulted in protracted lawsuits with Anna Elisabeth's husband Johann Jost von Hanxleden over the inheritance in Meineringhausen, which continued among the respective descendants until the middle of the 18th century. It was not until 1746 that the Imperial Court of Justice awarded the von Hanxleden half of the former Wolmeringhausen estates in Meineringhausen.

The lords of Twiste went out in the male line with Leopold Friedrich von Twiste in 1716. The latter had already pledged the Meineringhausen castle to Friedrich Wilhelm von Gaugrebe in 1699 , who married Johann Jost von Hanxleden's daughter Odilia Charlotte, who married it in 1708 von Corvey also received a fief. After 1710 the house burned down again and the Waldeck miner Georg Friedrich Gaugrebe had it rebuilt.

The Gaugreben zu Meineringhausen died out in 1788 in the male line and their property fell back to the Waldeck prince Friedrich Karl August as a settled fief . This transferred the lower jurisdiction in the village , which had been left to the Gaugreben since 1722, to the Waldecksche Amt Landau and enfeoffed the Chamber Councilor Friedrich Kleinschmit (1734-1804) from Arolsen with the property, who leased it to the Waldeckschen Justizrat Johann Georg Redlich. Since that time it has been in the possession of the Kleinschmit family, who in 1878 with Gustav Kleinschmit von Lengefeld (1811–1879) were raised to the hereditary Waldeck baron status. This property has remained leased ever since, including to Christoph Friedrich Großkurth and then to his son Ferdinand Großkurth .

In 1826 the old house on the Warme was replaced by a simple house in the Biedermeier style on the south side of the street, a simple half-timbered building with a stone base, two whole floors, a mezzanine and a gable roof .

Current condition

There are no structural remains of the former castle. The house built in 1826 is unused and very neglected. The agricultural areas of the former castle estate are still leased and in use.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity, Volume 46, Münster, 1888, pp. 96-106 (here 100)
  2. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, inventory 121 No. 7590
  3. ^ Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: History and description of the principality of Waldeck. Speyer, Arolsen, 1850, pp. 654-655
  4. ↑ Also Jobst.
  5. ^ Albert Leiß: Studied Waldecker from the 13th to the 19th century. In: History sheets for Waldeck and Pyrmont (Ed. History Association for Waldeck and Pyrmont), Volume 4, Mengeringhausen, 1904, pp. 1–78 (here 42)
  6. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg inventory 121 No. 7591–7592
  7. ↑ Gottfried Ganßage, Walter Kramm, Wolfgang Medding (arr.): Circle of the Eisenberg. (The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region, new series, third volume.) Bärenreiter, Kassel, 1939, p. 160
  8. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , 9th volume, Voigt, Leipzig, 1870, p. 313
  9. ^ Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: History and description of the principality of Waldeck. Speyer, Arolsen, 1850, pp. 654-655
  10. ↑ Gottfried Ganßauge, Walter Kramm, Wolfgang Medding (arrangement): Circle of the Eisenberg. (The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region, new series, third volume.) Bärenreiter, Kassel, 1939, p. 160

Web links

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 , p. 125.
  • Ulrich Bockshammer: Older territorial history of the county of Waldeck . (Writings of the Hessian Office for Historical Regional Studies, Volume 24) Elwert, Marburg, 1958, p. 201