Westernhagen Castle

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Westernhagen Castle
Berlingerode AlteBurg (5) .jpg
Creation time : before 1200
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, Wall and Graben
Standing position : Local nobility
Place: Berlingerode
Geographical location 51 ° 26 '30 "  N , 10 ° 15' 28"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '30 "  N , 10 ° 15' 28"  E
Height: 250  m above sea level NHN
Westernhagen Castle (Thuringia)
Westernhagen Castle

The castle Westlife is an Outbound lowland castle southeast of the community Berlingerode in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia .

location

The former castle complex at an altitude of 250  m above sea level. NHN is located about 2 km southeast of Berlingerode and 1.5 km west of Hundeshagen in the Rangental between the northern foothills of the Zehnsberg . The castle area directly adjoins a spur-like mountain slope of the nearby Birkenberg to the southeast, from which it is separated by a ditch. A ravine leads up to the castle from the Eichbach valley , a small tributary of the Hahle . The water of the Eichbach flowing past could have been used to fill a moat or the floodplain.

history

The castle complex was probably built as an allodial property by the Lords of Westernhagen in the 12th century . The castle was also mentioned again in 1288 for building activity. A Hermannuss von Westerhayn is called the Hus zum Hagen in 1300 and 1330 . In 1330 the brothers Heinrich, Burchard, Tile and Erfrid agree with the administrator of the Archdiocese of Mainz in a contract that they are to serve the officials at Rusteberg Castle for 5 years , for which the Archbishop appoints a Marchall to the veste tzum Hagen . During the Peasants' War in 1525, the castle and other fortifications around Berlingerode were destroyed by the rebels. Today the area is used for agriculture and forestry.

investment

The castle complex is still recognizable through the wall and moat and is a protected ground monument . An approximately 32 × 20 meter large hill of ruins with a trench running at right angles is still there. A seven-meter-wide trench separates the hill from the nearest mountain slope, on which there are several trench-like gullies.

Westernhagen desert

The village of the same name Westernhagen is said to have been located in the immediate vicinity to the west of the castle. The district of the village and the castle extended from the valley of the Eichbach to the east into the Nissetal near Hundeshagen . In 1370 and 1391 a church is mentioned in the Dorpe to dem Westerhagen with the altar Sante Katharyne . Servants of the castle probably lived there, but also farmers; in 1420 there were 28 mansis or farms there. The village and castle Westernhagen were named as a fiefdom of the monastery in Quedlinburg in 1483/84 ; the counts of Reinstein were fiefdoms . The Lords of Westernhagen owned the place as an after fief. How long the village existed after the castle was destroyed is not exactly known, in 1557 it was mentioned again in a feudal contract together with the castle, the bailiwick and other properties in the area.

Noble court Westernhagen

The area of ​​the judicial district belonged to the Mark Duderstadt in the early Middle Ages and later came to Kurmainz . The Lords of Westernhagen exercised jurisdiction in their office. The judicial district included the places Berlingerode, Bleckenrode, Ecklingerode, Brehme, Ferna, Hundeshagen, Teistungen and other places that no longer exist today (Groven, Lohnsdorf, Ikkendorf, Osternhagen and Westernhagen). After the Westernhagen Castle was destroyed, the seat of the judicial district was relocated to its new headquarters in Teistungen and Berlingerode.

Osterhagen

In 1484 a Henricus de Indagine orientali is mentioned in a document , who proposes a pastor for the church in Berlingerode. The noble family was a branch of the von Westernhagen family. The family lived to the east (orientalis) of Westernhagen Castle. The castle probably already existed around the year 1300, since from this time the western Hagen castle was called Westernhagen .

The exact place of residence is not known, it is assumed that a castle in Osternhagen not far from the Hundeshagen district of Freiheit . It is not known whether they were two separate castles or two parts of one castle. A part of the Birkenberg east of Westernhagen Castle was still called the old castle hill around 1900. It was also destroyed and abandoned during the Peasants' War in 1525.

literature

  • Michael Köhler: «Westernhagen» - Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 273-274 .
  • Helmut Godehardt: Land taxpayers from the villages of the Electoral Mainz office of Scharfenstein and the court of Westernhagen in 1548. In: EJb 14 (2006), pp. 133-140.
  • Günter Fiedler: About the former Westernhagen Castle. In: House & Museum Gülden Creutz Worbis 1992, pp. 28–30.
  • Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : The desert areas of the Eichsfeld: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of justice and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, pp. 1017-1021.

Web links

Commons : Burg Westernhagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, p. 41.
  3. ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, p. 40.
  4. Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, pp. 1017-1021.
  5. ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, p. 55
  6. ^ Günther Fiedler: About the former Westernhagen Castle. in: House and Museum Gülden Kreuz Worbis, Mecke Druck und Verlag Duderstadt 1992, p. 29
  7. Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. Göttingen (O. Hendel) 1903, p. 741 (for Osternhagen)