Nuhn Castle

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Nuhn Castle
Creation time : 8th or 9th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Ramparts and section trenches
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Lichtenfels - Sachsenberg
Geographical location 51 ° 7 '5.9 "  N , 8 ° 46' 26.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '5.9 "  N , 8 ° 46' 26.5"  E
Height: 390  m above sea level NHN
Nuhn Castle (Hesse)
Nuhn Castle

The castle Nuhn is an Outbound hilltop castle in Sachsenberg a district of Lichtenfels in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg .

location

To the southwest, about one kilometer from Sachsenberg, opposite the Butzenbachmühle are at an altitude of 390  m. NN high hill, in the Nuhnetal , the remains of the elongated castle complex. Through several section walls is ridge divided.

history

By whom and when exactly the castle was built is not documented. Possibly it is an old Saxon complex from the 8th or 9th century. Around 1242 it is said to have been in the possession of the Lords of Itter , who founded a Cistercian monastery here , which was moved to Frankenberg (see St. Georgenberg Monastery ) as early as 1245 . It is possible that the castle was later, after the First House of Itter died out , the ancestral seat of the von der Nuhn family . Ruppert von der Nuhn was mentioned in 1250 as Burgmann zu Grünberg . The von der Nuhne were Burgmannen in various services and were probably a branch of the von Hatzfeld . The noble family von Nuhn probably died out in the male line in the 17th century .

It is not known when the castle was abandoned or perhaps destroyed and then fell into disrepair. Remains of the moat and the section ditches have been preserved . There are no visible remains of construction or walls.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3rd edition. Wartberg-Verlag. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000. ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 127 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuhn Castle, Lichtenfels community. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of November 4, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 12, 2012 .