Twiste Castle

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Twiste Castle
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Moated castle
Conservation status: Nothing
Standing position : Imperial abbey; Count
Place: Twiste Valley - Twiste
Geographical location 51 ° 20 '10.3 "  N , 8 ° 58' 1.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '10.3 "  N , 8 ° 58' 1.9"  E
Height: 247  m above sea level NHN
Twiste Castle (Hesse)
Twiste Castle

The castle Twiste is a Outbound small lowland castle in the district of Twiste , in the municipality Twistetal in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg . No structural remains have been preserved and the exact location of the castle on the north bank of the Twiste near the church is not known; the coordinates are approximate.

history

Forerunner of the castle was already in 1140 mentioned fortified stone house, a bower , the Abbey Corvey , the latest as the core of a 1335 rule Corvey office buildings with a dairy farm in the fief of Bodo von Horhusen was. Johann von Horhusen sold the property including the mill there, with the consent of the abbey, in 1440 to Werner von Sunreke (Sunrich) and his wife Guste, and from them the Hessian Landgrave Ludwig I bought it in 1450 for 1100 Rhenish guilders . On September 30, 1455, when Count Otto III. von Waldeck -Landau and his son Otto IV waived all inheritance claims to the counties Ziegenhain and Nidda and Burg and Herrschaft Lißberg , which were occupied by the Landgrave after the death of the last Count of Ziegenhain, Johann II , Amtshof und Mühle, paid them 1000 guilders, lent them another 1000 guilders and committed to additional annual cash payments. According to Varnhagen, the actual village of Twiste was not part of this trade, as it had been part of the Waldeck Mengeringhausen office for a long time , and the "Schäferhof", a large tithe-free estate on the south bank of the Twiste , had long belonged to the count.

Count Philip III. In 1525 von Waldeck-Eisenberg enfeoffed his landdrosten and mountain bailiff Friedrich von Twiste with the "Schäferhof" and the residential complex, now known as the castle. In particular, he and his descendants expanded the estate further, so that the district around the Adelshof and seven newly built compulsory farms, which was already known as "New Twiste" in 1537, was built on the south bank of the Twiste.

The last male scion of the Lords of Twiste , Leopold Friedrich von Twiste, died in 1716. Already in 1715 he handed over his possessions and his castle in his will to the hereditary 1,712 princes raised Friedrich Anton Ulrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont . The takeover took place in September 1715. The "Schäferhof" was converted into a dairy and leased. It was farmed until the 1970s. Then the farm buildings were demolished and made space for a multi-purpose hall, the fire station and a tennis court. The municipality of Twistingal is now located in the former manor house.

The attachment

When the small castle, secured by moats and ramparts , was built and what it looked like is not yet known. Presumably it was built in the 16th century by those of Twiste near the old bower as a noble residence. It was a stone house surrounded by a wall and a moat fed by the twist.

literature

  • Wilhelm Emde, Erich Schmidt and Willi Hartmann: 1100 years of Twiste - the history of a Waldeck village. (Festschrift July 3-11, 1960) Self-published 1960, pp. 33 ff.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 133.
  • Ulrich Bockshammer: Older Territorial History of the County of Waldeck , Elwert, Marburg, 1958, p. 190 f.
  • Gottfried Ganßauge: The architectural and art monuments in the district of Cassel , New Series, Volume 2: Circle of Twiste , Elwert, Marburg, 1938, p. 233 ff.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ munitio ... in Tuiste .
  2. ^ Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse, Regest no. 9623: Corvey Abbey confirms the purchase in Twiste
  3. ^ Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte. Second volume, Speyer'sche Buchhandlung, Arolsen, 1853, pp. 8–9
  4. ^ Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte. Second volume, Speyer'sche Buchhandlung, Arolsen, 1853, p. 8, note ***
  5. ↑ Friedrich von Twiste, also from Twiste zu Peckelsheim , (* around 1480; † before 1547) was a North Hessian country ass who rose to the highest offices in the county of Waldeck and in the monastery of Münster in the service of members of the Waldecker Count House .
  6. ↑ HStAM inventory document 85 No. 7387
  7. ↑ Twiste, Waldeck-Frankenberg district, in the historical local dictionary Hessen Twiste, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local lexicon for Hessen (as of March 22, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ When the property was handed over to Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich, a so-called castle was mentioned "not far from the house of Twiste". See: Burg Twiste, municipality of Twist valley. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of October 2, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 18, 2019 . .