Stedebach Castle

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Stedebach Castle
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Weimar Stedebach
Geographical location 50 ° 43 '42 "  N , 8 ° 40' 28"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '42 "  N , 8 ° 40' 28"  E
Height: 205  m above sea level NHN
Stedebach Castle (Hesse)
Stedebach Castle

The castle Stedebach was a small, now Outbound , medieval lowland castle of the type of a motte (Motte) in the district Stedebach the town of Weimar in Marburg-Biedenkopf in Hessen .

history

The place Stedebach is mentioned in documents for the first time 1250/1260, as a goods classification of the Lords of Eppstein the Verlehnung a " villa mentioned" at Isenrich of Stedebach. This villa was probably a fortified house in the style of a moth , at this point it had certainly existed for a long time and was the core around which the small settlement had formed. The exact time of its construction is uncertain, but may be related to the abandonment of the abandoned Rickelskopf Castle, which was only 600 meters away, at the end of the 10th century.

There are no remains of this first castle in Stedebach. It is not known when it was destroyed or demolished. Its exact location is also not certain; However, it can be assumed that it had to give way to the Stedebach moated castle, which was built by the Teutonic Order on the eastern edge of the settlement in the 15th century (and has since also been removed) .

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. 269.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stedebach, Marburg-Biedenkopf 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 30, 2012 .