Naumburg Castle (Gladenbach)

Naumburg Castle
Wall and moat remains of the former Naumburg
Alternative name (s):	Nuwenburg, Neuberg
Creation time :	around 1249
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, ramparts and moats
Standing position :	Landgrave of Hesse
Place:	Gladenbach
Geographical location	50 ° 45 '51.7 "  N , 8 ° 34' 17.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '51.7 "  N , 8 ° 34' 17.5"  E
Height:	356.8  m above sea level NHN

The castle Naumburg , even Nuwenburg or Neuberg called, is a small Outbound Höhenburg created probably just as Wallenburg , on a 356.8  m above sea level. NHN high mountain cone, the Lammerich , above the salt flats southwest of the city of Gladenbach in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

location

The remnants of the oval north-south oriented castle complex lie on the Lammerich as part of the Gladenbacher Bergland .

history

The Nauwe Borg was around 1249 after the destruction of the opposite Burg Blankenstein by the Countess Sophie von Hessen built. Walls and moats can still be seen from the castle .

It is seen as the Hessian counterpart to the Archbishopric-Mainzischen Talburg, Offenhausen Castle in the Salzbödetal near Lohra , since it was not possible to monitor the Salzbödetal from the location of Blankenstein Castle. It was mentioned for the last time at the beginning of the 16th century. The castle is said to have played a major role in the Dernbach feud in securing the Hessian possessions against Nassau . After 1350, Neu-Dernbach Castle assumed the role of a border fortress further west.

description

View from Lammerich (location of Naumburg) over Gladenbach, Mornshausen, Lohra, Damm into the lower Salzbödetal

The oval castle complex has a largest diameter of around 50 meters in a north-south direction and just under 25 meters in an east-west direction. The moat with the remains of an outer rampart system is almost completely preserved. A wall is also assumed inside for protection. To the south, the access to the facility is assumed, still visible today through an embankment in the ditch. According to Wolfgang Becker, a historical researcher from the Salzbödetal who examined the castle complex, there was a palace in the southern part , once again protected by a rampart that is now only flat, while about ten by ten meter remains of foundations in the northern part of the complex were Keep .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} After Die Naumburg in Gladenbach. The western protective shield of the Hessian landgraves , online article at www.mittelhessen.de , from June 26, 2015 by Leander Michel ; accessed on October 6, 2017

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse - 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites . 3. Edition. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 279.
• Georg Wilhelm Sante (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 4: Hessen (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 274). 3rd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-27403-5 .

Web links

• Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Naumburg near Gladenbach in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Naumburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hessen (as of December 12, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 6, 2017 . 
• Burg Naumburg , a film by Raoul Allendorf on youtube , which clearly shows the course of the rampart system