Winnerod Castle

Winnerod Castle
Creation time :	End of 12th century or beginning of 13th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Reiskirchen - Winnerod
Geographical location	50 ° 36 '29 "  N , 8 ° 51' 56.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '29 "  N , 8 ° 51' 56.1"  E
Height:	251  m above sea level NN

The castle Winnerod is an Outbound hilltop castle on 251  m above sea level. NN in the district of Winnerod of the municipality of Reiskirchen in the district of Gießen in Hesse .

The remains of the retaining wall behind the manor house in the Burgwald corridor area (in front of the castle ) indicate the castle or the fortified aristocratic seat assigned to the Lords of Windhausen (zu Winnerod) . The mansion itself is a three-storey classicist building on a basement plinth, built as the aristocratic residence for Friedrich Salentin von Zwirnlein as the center of the Winnerod, which was already mentioned in a document in 1252 in the document book of the Arnsburg monastery (as Winderode , 23 years later as Wenderode ), which was originally an estate with its own church was. It can be concluded with some certainty that the lost castle was built at the same time or slightly earlier.

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. 307.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winnerod Castle, Gießen district. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of May 26, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 27, 2012 . 
2. ^ Entry on Winnerod Castle in the private database "All Castles".
3. ^ Winnerod, District of Giessen. 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 28, 2012 .