Falkenstein castle ruins (Bad Emstal)
| Falkenstein Castle | ||
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 Falkenstein castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | before 1346 | |
| Castle type : | Hill castle, hill castle | |
| Conservation status: | Piece of wall of the palace, remains of shield wall, remains of moats and walls | |
| Standing position : | Local nobility | |
| Construction: | Circular wall thickness approx. 1.4 m | |
| Place: | Bad Emstal - sand | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 15 '14.8 " N , 9 ° 17' 44.9" E | |
| Height: | 461.9 m above sea level NN | |
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The Falkenstein castle ruin is a Romanesque castle complex near Bad Emstal - Sand in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .
Geographical location
The ruins of the Höhenburg are located in the Habichtswald Nature Park around 2.5 km east-northeast of the Bad Emstal district of Sand on the now-wooded basalt summit of the Falkenstein ( 461.9 m above sea level ), north-north-west of Niedenstein or south-west of Schauenburg - Elmshagen . The border to the town of Niedenstein runs along the southern flank of the mountain, along the eastern flank that to the town of Schauenburg. Because the hilltop slopes steeply to the north and east, it and thus the castle ruins can best be reached on hiking trails from the south. The upper reaches of the Eder tributary Ems runs past the mountain to the west and the Ems tributary Wiehoff to the east .
history
Falkenstein Castle, which was probably built towards the end of the 13th century, was first mentioned in a document in 1346. In that year, Landgrave Heinrich II of Hesse pledged the castle, which was probably already in ruins, to Messrs Hund von Kirchberg and Holzhausen for 452 silver marks, but with the obligation to use at least 170 silver marks for its reconstruction. The two tribes of the Hund family received a castle loan each at the same time. The landgrave should only be allowed to redeem the castle from their heirs after the death of the pledges, but the latter should keep the castle fiefs and castle seats that they would have built on the castle forever. On the other hand, the castle should be open to the landgrave against enemies at all times. As early as 1351 a chapel is mentioned again at the castle. Protests by Archbishop Gerlach of Mainz against the reconstruction of the castle were rejected and dropped in 1354. On September 13, 1363, the numerous members of the Hund family concluded a truce on the Falkenstein, but shortly afterwards the line of wooden houses lost its share of the castle due to a dispute with the landgrave. Landgrave Hermann II gave this half, because of the hostile behavior of the dog in the Star Wars , first on April 6, 1387 to Ludwig von Wildungen , but then in the same year to Ekkebrecht von Grifte as a reward for his successful defense of Obernburg in Gudensberg against Siege army of Archbishop Adolf I of Mainz, Landgrave Balthasar of Thuringia and Duke Otto of Braunschweig-Göttingen .
In 1388 there was a new contract between Landgrave Hermann and the dog, in which the pledge conditions of 1346 and the truce of 1363 were declared invalid and the Hund's shares of the castle were assigned to the landgrave as fief . After the Holzhäuser line of the dog died out in 1430, there was an inheritance dispute between the dog from Kirchberg on the one hand and Reinhard von Dalwigk , a nephew of the late Otto von Holzhausen, and the knights of Grifte on the other hand, whom the landgrave had to struggle with after a long time in 1442 could settle. Reinhard von Dalwigk sold his claim in 1454 for 100 guilders to von Grifte.
Until 1569, the castle belonged to the Lords of Grifte and the Hund family, which they held together as a Landgrave-Hessian fief from 1569. In 1597 the Lords of Grifte died out and the castle gradually fell into disrepair. It can be assumed that the successors were enfeoffed only with the forest, the mountain and the associated lands, but no longer with the castle. In 1631 Tilly's troops destroyed the castle. After the death of Lieutenant Colonel Hans Heinrich Hund zu Freienhagen (called Canis ) in 1679, the castle finally fell apart and fell back to the Hessian landgrave as a settled fiefdom.
Castle ruins
The narrow, round plateau area of the Falkenstein mountain has a diameter of 30 m. South of Falkenstein Castle was a 40 m wide outer bailey . Only a few remains of the wall have survived from the Palas . A continuous 11 m long section of the wall in the south and two high, narrow sections of the wall, between which there was a window, prove the settlement. Remains of the moat and ramparts have remained visible in the west .
Individual evidence
literature
- Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen 1971, pp. 80-81.
- Karl Ernst Demandt : History of the State of Hesse . Johannes Stauda Verlag, Kassel 1980, pp. 191–192.
- Greaves travel guide North Hesse . Volume 230, Oberhessen, Kurhessen, Waldeck, Karl Thiemig Verlag, Munich 1981, p. 187.
- Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 26-27.
- Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 104f.
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