Treis Castle (Staufenberg)

Treis Castle
Round tower of the former Treis Castle
Alternative name (s):	Castle by the water
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Tower, remains of the wall
Place:	Staufenberg - Treis on the Lumda
Geographical location	50 ° 40 '2.7 "  N , 8 ° 47' 15.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 '2.7 "  N , 8 ° 47' 15.9"  E

Shooting bay converted into an arbor on the southwest side

The Castle Treis , also castle on the water called, was a castle-like fortified farm on the right bank of the Lumda in Staufenberger district Treis an der Lumda in the district of Giessen in Hesse .

Geographical location

The remains of the castle are in Hauptstrasse 46, opposite Ellhaus Castle on the northern side of the Lumda.

description

Almost nothing is known about the history of the castle. Presumably it was built in the middle of the 16th century by the older line of the gentlemen Schutzbar called Milchling .

In the 19th century, an office building was built on the site of the former residential building , which until 1867 served as the official residence of the Hessian justice office in Treis .

The 1.1 meter thick circular walls along the Lumda and, integrated into a house, a tower with bay windows and corbels on the west side and a mighty round tower on the south side , also known as the “thief tower”, testify to the formerly strongly fortified castle complex. The facility is privately owned.

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 313.
• Michael Losse: Elhaus Castle in Treis an der Lumda. In: Marburger Correspondenzblatt zur Burgenforschung 2 (1999/2000), p. 105f.
• Heinrich Walbe: The art monuments in Hessen - Gießen district; Vol. 1 - Northern part. Darmstadt, 1938.
• Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Northern Hesse . Berlin, 1950.

Web links

Office building on the main street

Commons : Burg Treis (Staufenberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Treis Castle at burgenwelt.de
• "Treis an der Lumda, District of Giessen". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Ellhaus Castle, Gießen district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): Burg und Amtshaus In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen

Remarks

1. ^ "Treis an der Lumda, District of Giessen". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 28, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).