Offenhausen Castle

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Offenhausen Castle
Sign at the former location

Sign at the former location

Alternative name (s): Uffinhusin (1324)
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Lohra
Geographical location 50 ° 44 '46 "  N , 8 ° 36' 34.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '46 "  N , 8 ° 36' 34.5"  E
Height: 214  m above sea level NHN
Offenhausen Castle (Hesse)
Offenhausen Castle

The castle Offenhausen is a Outbound lowland castle in the district of the municipality Lohra in Marburg-Biedenkopf in Hessen .

history

It was probably a small moated castle ( moth ) on the right bank of the salt flats south of the Mappesmühle between Lohra and Gladenbach - Mornshausen . It is believed that it was built on behalf of the Archbishop of Mainz , was intended to control the valley floor and as a border fortification to the then nearby border with the Landgraviate of Hesse . Ulrich Lennarz describes the castle in 1973 as a desert tower castle Offenhausen . The castle is mentioned for the first time in 1324, mentioned in 1434 and is already desolate in 1603 . In the cadastral maps from 1803 the place is still described as a castle . At the beginning of the twentieth century a ring-shaped rampart about 15 meters in diameter is said to have existed , which was later removed by the miller of the Mappesmühle and used to fill the embankment. At the same time he filled the many surrounding water holes, probably the remains of a moat . The castle is related to the Offenhausen desert , which was only a few hundred meters east-northeast of the castle on the slope on the left side of the salt flats at today's L3048 and southeast of the mill and how the castle fell into desolation at the end of the 16th century at the latest.

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. 261.
  • Werner Stab: Die Wüstung Offenhausen (district Lohra) , in: Hessenland Volume 47 (1936), pp. 36–39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Lennarz: The Territorial History of the Hessian Hinterland , Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1973, p. 273
  2. ↑ Lohra Wiki: Offenhausen Castle
  3. ^ Offenhausen, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of August 20, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 6, 2015 .