Burghaus Breungeshain

Burghaus Breungeshain
Alternative name (s):	Breungeshain Castle
Creation time :	Mentioned in 1314
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Scots - Breungeshain
Geographical location	50 ° 30 '23.8 "  N , 9 ° 12' 11"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '23.8 "  N , 9 ° 12' 11"  E
Height:	562  m above sea level NN

The Burghaus Breungeshain , also called Burg Breungeshain , is a lost moated castle on Eichelbach on the western outskirts of Breungeshain , a district of the town of Schotten in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse .

In 1314 the Breungeshain church chronicle mentions a "castle house" which the Schweinsberg taverns had as a fief with the village . The taverns lived in the small castle surrounded by a wall and moat . The Lords of Trimberg are also named as other owners of the castle .

The castle served to secure the connecting road between Breungeshain and Sichenhausen at the point where this "Sichenhäuser Straße" crossed the Eichelbach in a ford. Therefore, the residents gradually gave up the upper village and settled near the castle.

Presumably the castle was destroyed in 1382 together with the Alteburg and the Eppsteiner Schloss in Schotten by the Rhenish Association of Cities .

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. 349

Web links

• Breungeshain Castle, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 4, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 28, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Breungeshain Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
2. ↑ Breungeshain on the schotten.de site