Milseburg Castle

Milseburg Castle
Alternative name (s):	Song stick
Creation time :	probably 11th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, remains of the ring wall
Place:	Hofbieber - small people
Geographical location	50 ° 32 '53.3 "  N , 9 ° 53' 28.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '53.3 "  N , 9 ° 53' 28.2"  E
Height:	613  m above sea level NN

The castle Milseburg also Liedenküppel called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on a steep mountain at 613  m above sea level. NN , the "Liedenküppel" in the Kleinsassen district of the Hofbieber community in the Fulda district ( Hesse ). Milseburg Castle is not to be confused with the Celtic ring wall Milseburg on the mountain of the same name .

description

The castle was probably built in the 11th century and first mentioned in a document in 1119. It is unclear whether the castle was conquered and renewed between 1114 and 1122 by the Fulda abbot Erlolf von Bergholz or whether it was only built or renewed under the Abbot Markward with the castles Bieberstein and Haselstein from 1150 to 1165 . It was abandoned in the 13th century and was in ruins by 1450 .

In the floor plan at Knappe, a complete circular wall and an only half-encompassing wall in front are recorded. The floor plan suggests that the castle was the only permanent house with a residential tower . The dimensions of the castle are small at around 21 × 24 m.

Today's castle stable of the former small, round, at its core, square tower castle shows only parts of the curtain wall and a deepening of the tower.

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 213.
• Heinrich Hahn: The tower castle on the song stick. In: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 53 (1977), pp. 141-146
• Eduard Breiten: Uncovering the legendary castle ruins on the Liedenküppel on the west side of the Milseburg , 1899, 2 pages

Web links

• Entry by Thorsten Sonnemann on Kleinsassen, Liedenküppel in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Milseburg (Liedenküppel), district of Fulda. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of February 7, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 30, 2015 . 
• Milseburg Castle at www.burgenwelt.org
• Photos of the castle ruins at www.frank66furt.de/burgen/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. www.burgenwelt.de: Floor plan of Milseburg Castle according to Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 213.
2. ↑ www.burgenwelt.de: Milseburg Castle