Burgmannenhaus Rauschenberg

The Burgmannenhaus in Rauschenberg

The Burgmannenhaus Rauschenberg is a castle-like house of the Rauschenberg Burgmannen from the 17th century in the old town of Rauschenberg in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf .

history

As Burgmannen one called since the 12th century Ministeriale and members of the nobility , who were commissioned by a castle lord, a castle to guard and defend it. For the Burgmann there was often a special feudal right . Since he was obliged to be present, the lord of the castle provided him with a suitable place of residence near the castle free of charge.

In Rauschenberg, this was last the Burgmannenhaus, built around 1600 at Schlossstrasse 11, near the Protestant church and the castle gate, 200 meters below the Rauschenberg Castle, which has meanwhile been converted into a castle . There lived one after the other, sometimes at the same time, castle men of the Lords of Weitershausen , the Counts of Homberg , the rule of Spiegel zu Desenberg and finally the Counts of Freyen-Seyboldsdorff . Although the castle was blown up in the Thirty Years' War in 1646 in the course of the War of the Hessian Succession at the behest of a Kassel colonel and only existed as a ruin, the castle men continued to enjoy residence due to their fief. It was only after the death of the last count entitled to live in 1812 that the Burgmannenhaus could be withdrawn from the state, then the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia , as a settled fiefdom and sold to King Jérôme Bonaparte in order to increase his income .

The building has been uninhabited for several years and is left to decay.

Appearance

Four floors of partially plastered timber frame with three to two window axes rise on a red sandstone basement drawn into the slope . At the two corners of the house on the eaves side facing the street, round bay windows, each with six window axes , are very ornately extended from the first to the second floor . The individual floors are slightly cantilevered, the framework frames here unplastered. In the middle of the street front is the entrance door on the mezzanine floor , which can be reached via a double sandstone staircase. At the rear of the house, which is covered with a half- hip roof, a three- and a two-story half-timbered building are connected in a row. These additions have gable roofs .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume 2. dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 , Sp. 965-966, 1055
2. ↑ Sign No. 6 on the street side of the Burgmannenhaus
3. ↑ Oberhessische Presse, Marburg, August 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 59.4 "  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 48.8"  E