Rickelskopf Castle

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Rickelskopf Castle
View from the south. On the north side facing away from the observer and the east side (right in the picture) the terrain slopes steeply. On the west and south sides, the terrain slopes less steeply and a clear neck ditch can be seen.

View from the south. On the north side facing away from the observer and the east side (right in the picture) the terrain slopes steeply. On the west and south sides, the terrain slopes less steeply and a clear neck ditch can be seen.

Creation time : around 800
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, rampart and remains of a moat
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Stedebach
Geographical location 50 ° 43 '23 "  N , 8 ° 40' 35"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '23 "  N , 8 ° 40' 35"  E
Height: 230  m above sea level NHN
Rickelskopf Castle (Hesse)
Rickelskopf Castle

The castle Rickelskopf is an Outbound hilltop castle on 230  m above sea level. NHN about 600 meters south of the small village of Stedebach , a district of the municipality of Weimar in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

history

The castle stood on Rickelskopf, a protruding to the northwest, small wooded hill , about 25 meters above the wellspring of Stedebachs. As it is concluded on the basis of the fragments recovered there, the castle complex was built around 800, and it hardly seems to have existed beyond the 10th century.

description

The complex, surrounded by a ring wall, was almost circular, with an outer diameter of 32 meters.

The neck ditch in the southwest, partly covered by dead wood

Traces of former stone buildings and pits can be seen on the enclosed, buildable inner area of ​​around 22 meters in diameter. Remains of the ruined curtain wall are still present in the form of ramparts. Remnants of the neck ditch , which secured the complex in the south-west in a sickle shape against the adjacent flat ridge, are still visible.

literature

  • Michael Losse: The Lahn - castles and palaces. From Biedenkopf and Marburg via Gießen, Wetzlar and Weilburg to Limburg, Nassau and Lahnstein . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-070-9 , pp. 191-192.
  • Hansjürgen Brachmann : The early medieval fortifications in Central Europe. Investigations into its development and function in the Germanic-German area. In: Writings on prehistory and early history. 45 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-001995-6 .
  • Where some knights dined: the Teutonic Order had a moated castle in Stedebach . Oberhessische Presse, Marburg, Volume 116 (1981), Issue 119, May 23, 1981, p. 10.

Web links

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