Hessenwalt castle ruins

Hessenwalt castle ruins
Alternative name (s):	Hessenwald, Hessinwalt, Hessenwaldt
Creation time :	around 1325
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains, remains of a rock cellar, neck ditch
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Eschenburg - Roth
Geographical location	50 ° 50 '16 "  N , 8 ° 21' 58"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '16 "  N , 8 ° 21' 58"  E
Height:	530  m above sea level NHN

The castle ruins Hessenwalt or Hessenwald are the rest of a hilltop castle at 530  m above sea level. NN high Heiligenberg or Schlossberg about 600 m south of the Roth district of the municipality of Eschenburg in the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .

history

The castle was built by the Landgraves of Hesse around 1325 to 1326 to defend the Breidenbacher Grund during the Dernbach feud . Although the construction costs of 1,200,000 “Schild Tournosen” shields are documented and the castle must have been a stately complex, the castle did not withstand the Nassau army. Destroyed by the Counts of Nassau from 1327 to 1328 , the castle fell into disrepair until the 15th century. As early as 1563 it is only noted that " an old castle was supposed to have been here" before .

Only small remains of the wall (remains of the foundation wall, a gate pillar, remains of the stairs), the remains of a rock cellar and the deep ditch are preserved from the former castle complex with a bailey .

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications . 3rd edition, Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 278.
• O. Renkhoff: Die Burg Hessenwalt , In: Heimatblätter for the care and promotion of the home idea , supplement to the Dill newspaper , Dillenburg 1931
• Georg Wilhelm Sante (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 4: Hessen (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 274). Unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-520-27403-5 .

Web links

• Hessenwalt, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 17, 2017 . 

Footnotes

1. ↑ France's Louis IX. ordered that in the royal 1262 Mint in Tours embossed coins , "Tournosen" called, are valid throughout the kingdom.