Seelbach Castle (Lohra)

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Seelbach Castle
View from the north-northeast. Today (2015) there is a ramshackle high seat at the highest elevation. A ditch a few meters deep can be seen between the recording site and the high seat, which probably represents the former neck ditch.

View from the north-northeast. Today (2015) there is a ramshackle high seat at the highest elevation. A ditch a few meters deep can be seen between the recording site and the high seat, which probably represents the former neck ditch.

Creation time : around 800
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains
Place: Lohra - Seelbach
Geographical location 50 ° 43 '27.1 "  N , 8 ° 34' 38"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '27.1 "  N , 8 ° 34' 38"  E
Height: 320  m above sea level NN
Seelbach Castle (Hesse)
Seelbach Castle

The Burg Seelbach is an Outbound Höhenburg ( Wall castle ) 50 meters above a stream base on a 320  m above sea level. NN high hilltop 500 meters west of the 367 m high Hummelberg and at the same distance north of the Seelbach district of the municipality of Lohra in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

The small fortification, first mentioned around 800, stood on a long oval, wooded hilltop. Today there are still small remnants of a circular rampart with a neck ditch tapering to the southwest and northeast . The size of the plant was about 18 by 28 meters. The find material is dated to around 800. Written sources about the builder or the facility itself are completely absent.

literature

  • Rolf Gensen: Althessen's early days: prehistoric sites and finds in northern Hesse . Wiesbaden 1979, p. 98.
  • Ulrich Reuling (edit.): Historical local dictionary Marburg. Former district and urban district = historical local dictionary of the state of Hesse 3. Marburg 1979, p. 48, ISBN 3-7708-0678-6 .
  • Rudolf Knappe: A supplement to the manual “Medieval Castles in Hessen” , in Marburg's correspondence sheet on castle research: Yearbook of the Marburger Burgen-Arbeitskreis , Volume 2 (1999/2000), publisher of the Working Group for European Castle Research, Marburg 2000, ISBN 978-3 -9807558-0-1 , p. 118.

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