Stenderberg Castle

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Stenderberg Castle
Stenderberg near Ostheim: northern tip with a former quarry and castle site

Stenderberg near Ostheim: northern tip with a former quarry and castle site

Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Liebenau - Ostheim
Geographical location 51 ° 30 '35.3 "  N , 9 ° 18' 41.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '35.3 "  N , 9 ° 18' 41.8"  E
Height: 167  m above sea level NN
Stenderberg Castle (Hesse)
Stenderberg Castle

The castle Stender Mountain is an Outbound hilltop castle on the mountain Stender at 167  m above sea level. NN northwest of the district Ostheim of the small town Liebenau in the district of Kassel in Hesse .

During quarry work on Stenderberg, the remains of the wall were cut, which led to an excavation by the Hessian State Office for Monument Preservation in 1982. The foundations of a rectangular building were exposed on the mountain spur, about 8 meters behind a section trench running in a west-east direction , the west side of which, however, had already been destroyed by the quarry. The southern front wall was three meters thick, the remaining walls two meters. The walls made of hewn limestone blocks were set into the limestone about a meter deep. Most of the stones on the outer wall had been broken off and removed. The length of the building was 13 meters, its width at least 8 meters.

Most of the finds from the excavation consisted of animal bones. The ceramic, Saxon ball pots with handmade walls, corresponds to material from the 10th century.

To the east of the castle on the Stenderberg lies the deserted village "Steinenzwergen" in the floodplain of the Diemel.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites . 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 20.
  • Lutz Fiedler: Excavations on the Stenderberg near Liebenau-Ostheim . In: Yearbook of the district of Kassel . 1984, p. 57.
  • L. Fiedler & E. Hendler: The Stenderberg near Liebenau-Ostheim . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, in conjunction with the State Art Collections Kassel: City and District of Kassel. Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany, Volume 7 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1986 ISBN 3-8062-0368-7 .
  • L. Fiedler: The Stenderberg near Liebenau-Ostheim, Kassel district. A small castle from the transition period from the early to the high Middle Ages , Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-89822-096-6 . 6 pages

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