Rodenscheid Castle

Rodenscheid Castle
	Area on the Rotenschitt corridor east of the castle stables, old quarry area
Alternative name (s):	castrensis rotenschitt
Creation time :	Early 13th century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Lich
Geographical location	50 ° 31 '19 " N , 8 ° 50' 7.6" E Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '19 " N , 8 ° 50' 7.6" E
Height:	165 m above sea level NN

The castle Roden Scheid is an Outbound lowland castle in the deserted village Rotenschitt (Flurname Am Kirchberg ), close to the ring road east of the city Lich in the district of Giessen in Hesse .

Rotenschitt was a small place that is mentioned for the first time in 1210 in the documents of the Arnsburg monastery , in which u. a. a chapel at Rotenschitt is mentioned, where Hartmut von Trohe had the church patronage . In 1287, the knight Guntram de Olfe and his wife Jutta are named when they donate their goods to Rotenschitt to the monastery. During the Falkenstein division in 1271, Werner von Falkenstein received the village of Rotenschitt from the Lich line, which belonged to the Lich court. From 1301 (1306 and 1322), the nobles of Falkenstein for Rotenschitt then have several documents, they assign Novalland (an area of partly newly developed and partly cleared land) and Neurodecenth to Arnsburg Monastery, the Church of Lich or lease it other owners.

The castle was built in the beginning of the 13th century by the Lords of Rodenscheid , presumably to protect the town of Lich , and was mentioned in 1306 as "castrensis de rotenschitt" and fell into disrepair again in the 14th century. No remains of the former castle complex have survived.

In 1436 Rotenschitt was only managed as a desert .

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. 310.
Sven Weigel: Castles and palaces in the Gießen district. Verlag Emil Winter, Heuchelheim 2000, ISBN 3926923288 .

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Map LAGIS Hessen: Deserted castle Rotenscheid .
↑ Ludwig Baur (editor and editor): Document book of the Arnsburg monastery in the Wetterau, part 3. The unprinted sources from 1355 to 1499 , Verlag des Historisches Verein für das Großherzogtum Hessen, Darmstadt 1851, pp. 508–777
↑ repertories of the Hessian State archive Darmstadt : Solmser documents: Regesten to the act of stocks and Kopiaren of the counts and Prince of Solms in the state archives Darmstadt (divisions B 9 and F 24 B), in the count archive to Laubach and royal archive Lich; 1131 - 1913 / arr. by Friedrich Battenberg : Part 1: Document recalls No. 1-1273 (1131-1450)
↑ ^a ^b Rotenschitt desert, Gießen district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 27, 2012 .
↑ entry to castle Roden Scheid in the private database "All Castles".

[1] . Map LAGIS Hessen: Deserted castle Rotenscheid .

[2] Ludwig Baur (editor and editor): Document book of the Arnsburg monastery in the Wetterau, part 3. The unprinted sources from 1355 to 1499 , Verlag des Historisches Verein für das Großherzogtum Hessen, Darmstadt 1851, pp. 508–777

[3] repertories of the Hessian State archive Darmstadt : Solmser documents: Regesten to the act of stocks and Kopiaren of the counts and Prince of Solms in the state archives Darmstadt (divisions B 9 and F 24 B), in the count archive to Laubach and royal archive Lich; 1131 - 1913 / arr. by Friedrich Battenberg : Part 1: Document recalls No. 1-1273 (1131-1450)

[lagis-4] Rotenschitt desert, Gießen district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 27, 2012 .

[5] try to castle Roden Scheid in the private database "All Castles".