Ziegenberg Castle (Wilhelmshausen)

Ziegenberg Castle
Alternative name (s):	Goat Castle, Tsekenberg
Creation time :	probably 11th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Fulda Valley - Wilhelmshausen
Geographical location	51 ° 24 '7.5 "  N , 9 ° 35' 32.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '7.5 "  N , 9 ° 35' 32.3"  E
Height:	145  m above sea level NN

The Castle Mountain goat (also Goat castle ) is a Outbound Spur castle on a spur at 145  m above sea level. NN above the Fuldaschleife 800 meters east of the district Wilhelmshausen of the community Fuldatal in the district of Kassel ( Northern Hesse ).

The castle was probably built in the 11th century and was probably owned by a line of the Lords of Cygenberg from Ziegenberg Castle, about 20 km away, above Ziegenhagen near Witzenhausen , as indicated by the mention of a Dedo von Cygenberg in 1093, whose wife was a countess from Dassel was. It may even be the lost headquarters of the von Cygenberg family.

The present castle stable of the formerly small castle complex shows no more remains and is built over.

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 44.

Web links

• Ziegenburg, district of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ziegenburg, Kassel district. 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 October 11, 2019 .