Sehlen Castle

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Sehlen Castle
Alternative name (s): Donisse, Wallburg Sehlen, Dönsberg, Fetzgesburg
Creation time : not clear
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : unknown
Construction: unknown
Place: Gemünden - Sehlen
Geographical location 51 ° 0 '39.1 "  N , 8 ° 57' 14.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '39.1 "  N , 8 ° 57' 14.8"  E
Height: 306  m above sea level NN
Sehlen Castle (Hesse)
Sehlen Castle

The Burgstall , called Burg Sehlen , Dönsberg or Donisse , was probably a rampart and hilltop castle northeast of Sehlen , a district of Gemünden in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse ( Germany ).

location

The protected remains in the " NSG Donisse" are located east-north-east of the municipality of Sehlen and its district (corridor 9, parcel 15), east of the state road L3073 and the Schweinfe and south of the state road L3070 from Haina, which opens at a right angle, on a 306  m high hilltop , which is also called Dönsberg and which has been partially destroyed by earlier quarry work .

geology

Geologically , the Bunstruht area belongs to the Burgwald , a red sandstone slab that protrudes like a peninsula into the older layers of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . Bunstruht and the Wohratal to the south separate the Burgwald from the Kellerwald , which is the easternmost branch of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The red sandstone slab, up to 421 meters high, was created in the Triassic around 220 million years ago from sediments of the Rhenish Slate Mountains, which were deposited in the Germanic Basin to the south . The hilltop is located in a tectonic fracture zone , which extends northwest from Sehlen to southwest to Herbelhausen and is already in the Zechstein belt , which separates the Burgwald from the Kellerwald. This fracture zone is characterized by folding , which is also clearly visible in the outcrop of the quarry.

history

Traces of human settlements have been known around Sehlen since the Middle Stone Age , which have also been proven by some finds in the Donisse nature reserve. For the first time the village of Sehlen with the Celtic name "Salaha", which is interpreted as a manor or a sanctuary by the water, was opened in 750 AD. mentioned. More than 1000 years ago, Sehlen was the center of the entire Bunstruth as a place of justice . The complex itself was interpreted as a Stone Age refuge, a Celtic complex or a late Carolingian castle; its main use was in the 9th century. Nothing is known precisely about the structure and exact use of the system. The facility is also associated with the Dönsberg desert . Georg Landau used the same name in the middle of the 19th century and gave it the name "Fetzgesburg" , which is said to have been in use in the 16th century.

description

Since the castle complex was partially destroyed by a former quarry, only remains of the ground remain. The tower hill, several ramparts and trenches are visible in the area, but have not been explored. In the 19th century, the tower hill is said to have been visible over five meters high. The ring wall of the castle is said to have had a diameter of 75 meters. Another ledge is said to have existed that surrounded a spring, which was typical for Celtic systems.

Todays use

The site and parcel is now a nature reserve and designated as a natural monument .

literature

  • Wilhelm Niemeyer: 1200 years of Sehlen: 750 - 1950; Festschrift for the 1200 year celebration on Pentecost 1950 , [also: Das Fest der Bunstruth; Pentecost, May 28-30, 1950 ], Gemeinde Sehlen (Ed.), Frankenberg-Eder 1950, pp. 10-18
  • Rudolf Knappe: Second addendum to the manual "Medieval Castles in Hesse" , in: Marburger Correspondenzblatt zur Burgenforschung , Vol. 3, Marburg 2001/2002, pp. 97-104
  • Georg Landau: Historical-topographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse and in the Grand-Ducal Hessian parts of the Hessengaue, the Oberlahngaue and the Ittergaue ; In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies: Supplement No. 7 , Verlag Fischer, Kassel 1858, p. 238

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Probably a corruption of the Bulenstrut desert that gave it its name :
    Bulenstrut, district of Waldeck-Frankenberg. 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 September 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Geocache information: Donisse Sehlen quarry at www.geocaching.com, accessed on September 7, 2016
  3. ↑ Old name of the surrounding landscape, which was also the name of a local court in the Middle Ages, as part of the Electoral Hesse office of Rosenthal (see F. Pfister: Kleines Handbuch der Landeskunde von Kurhessen , Kassel 1840, p. 7)
  4. ^ Dönsberg, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of June 18, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ G. Landau: Historical-topographical description of the desert places ... , p. 238
  6. ↑ Sehlen , HNA-Regiowiki regiowiki.hna.de , accessed on September 7, 2016
  7. ^ Hermann Bierl: Archeology Guide Germany: Bodendenkmäler und Museen , Wek-Verlag , 2006, p. 192
  8. ↑ Journal for Economic Geography , Volume 25, Pick-Verlag, 1981, p. 250