Haselstein castle ruins

Haselstein Castle
	View from the southwest
Creation time :	around 1100
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Nüsttal - Haselstein
Geographical location	50 ° 40 '50.9 " N , 9 ° 51' 1.4" E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 '50.9 " N , 9 ° 51' 1.4" E
Height:	434 m above sea level NHN

The castle Haselstein is the ruins of a hilltop castle in the village of Haselstein the community Nüsttal in the district of Fulda in Hesse . It is located next to the village on a steep basalt cone at 434 m above sea level. NN , which is mentioned for the first time in 780/781 as "Haselahastein".

history

The hilltop castle, which was probably built in the 11th century (or even earlier) by the lords of Haselstein, was first mentioned in 1119 when it was conquered by the Fulda abbot Erlof von Bergholz in order to put an end to the robber baronism that began with it. The first known lord of the castle was Wigger von Hasela, named in 1135. From 1156, after being conquered again, the castle was finally in Fulda possession and became the seat of the Fulda officials, including the Lords of Haselstein (until their extinction in 1330) and the Lords of Tann , who administered the Haselstein office from there. The later Electorate Court Councilor and envoy Eberhard von der Tann , who introduced the Reformation there in 1534 as regent of the Tann rule , was born in 1495 at Haselstein Castle.

The castle was last mentioned in 1512 when Dietrich von Ebersberg was bailiff there. A new office building was built at the foot of the castle hill in 1546, and the no longer used castle fell into disrepair or served as a quarry. Only small remnants of the surrounding wall and two sides of the former gate tower are left of the former castle complex . The round keep , which has now completely disappeared , was once around six meters in diameter.

literature

Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg publishing house. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 193f.

Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 280f.

Andreas Knüttel: The robber barons of Haselstein Castle - Poetry and Truth , Buchenblätter (supplement to the Fuldaer Zeitung ), 2016/1 Online (accessed on January 20, 2016)

Andreas Knüttel: Haselstein Castle - This is what it looked like , Buchenblätter (supplement to the Fuldaer Zeitung ), 2016/1 Online (accessed on July 11, 2016)

Web links

Commons : Haselstein Castle Ruins (Nüsttal) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry by Thorsten Sonnemann zu Haselstein in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Haselstein Castle on burgenwelt.org
Haselstein, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun