Ziegenberg Castle (Ziegenhagen)
| Ziegenberg Castle | ||
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 Today's access to the ruins of the main castle with keep |
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| Alternative name (s): | Goat castle | |
| Creation time : | possibly end of the 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains, stump of the square tower | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Witzenhausen - Ziegenhagen | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 22 '9.5 " N , 9 ° 45' 43.4" E | |
| Height: | 270 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Ziegenberg Castle , also called the Ziegenburg , is the ruin of a spur castle near Ziegenhagen , a district of Witzenhausen in the Werra-Meißner district of Hesse .
Geographical location
The ruins of Ziegenberg Castle are located on the castle hill east above Ziegenhagen (approx. 270 m above sea level ), the rocky and wooded northern spur of the calf's head ( 392.6 m ) on the northern edge of the Kaufunger Forest . To the west of the ruins in the Frau-Holle-Land Geo-Nature Park (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald) runs through the valley in which the village of Ziegenhagen is located, the south-western Werra tributary Rautenbach . The Ziegenhagen adventure park, which will run until 2019, is only a few meters away, and the border with the Göttingen district in Lower Saxony is also nearby.
history
The castle was probably built as a spur castle at the end of the 11th century; it was first mentioned in 1101 as Zygenberch . This is where Count Dedo de Zygenberch was first mentioned in a document in 1116, who married a von Dassel as his wife .
At the beginning of the 13th century, the family of the Counts of Ziegenberg began to be split into three lines by the brothers Hermann the Black, Hermann the White and Giso. Hermann the Black was often in the retinue of Duke Otto von Braunschweig and was married to Hildegunde von Lauterberg . The Hermann line of those von Ziegenberg died out in 1266 with the death of Hermann the White. Hermann the Black passed away four years earlier. Giso von Ziegenberg was one of the founders of the Mariengarten monastery . In 1320 the castle was conquered by Landgrave Otto I of Hesse and then pledged to the von Berlepsch family .
In 1400 Ziegenberg Castle, where Thilo von Berlepsch Burgmann was, and Berlepsch Castle , were conquered by the troops of the Hessian landgrave. In 1392, after the death of Hans von Berlepsch, who had died childless, Thilo took possession of Berlepsch Castle against the will of the Landgrave and thereby challenged this punishment.
1494 the castle came as a fief to Georg d. J. von Buttlar . Until 1541 his son Erasmus (Asmus) von Buttlar was the last inhabitant of the castle; after his death in the same year the castle fell into disrepair and was partially demolished. The area of the castle belonged to the Hessian office of Witzenhausen until 1821 .
investment
Ziegenberg Castle consisted of a fore and main castle and a square keep ; Nowadays there are only 1.5 meter high wall remains of the former keep, which had a wall thickness of 5 meters and was touched by a kennel on the south side . Further remains of the wall can be found on the eastern side of the upper mountain plateau. Up until the 1820s there was another tower at this point, which was surrounded by an elliptical circular wall. The entire castle complex was about 15 by 30 meters.
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. 57
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann on Ziegenberg near Witzenhausen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Ziegenberg Castle, Witzenhausen community. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Ziegenberg castle ruins , on burgenwelt.de
- Ziegenberg , on burgenlexikon.eu
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ziegenberg Castle, Witzenhausen community. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of May 31, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c d Ziegenberg castle ruins , on burgenwelt.de
- ^ Heinrich Lücke: Castles, palaces and mansions in the area of the lower Werra, volume 2 . Verlag von H. Lücke, Parensen 1924, DNB 366714120 , p. 70 .