Igelsburg castle ruins
| Igelsburg | ||
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.jpg) Neck ditch Burgstall Igelsburg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Castel Sant'Angelo, dwarf castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and moat remains | |
| Place: | Habichtswald - Dörnberg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 20 '9 " N , 9 ° 22' 10" E | |
| Height: | 466 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Igelsburg ( Old High German : Zwergenburg ; initially called Engelsburg ) is an abandoned hilltop castle in the district of Habichtswald in the northern Hessian district of Kassel ( Germany ).
Geographical location
The location of the former Igelsburg is in the Habichtswald Nature Park in the north of the Hohen Habichtswald, a little over 9 km northwest of the Kassel city center and just under 2 km east of the center of Habichtswald- Dörnberg (as the crow flies ).
The Igelsburg was west of the upper reaches of the ancestor at the north end of a 466 m above sea level. NHN high basalt dome or rib, which rises a maximum of about 30 m above its immediate surroundings and was formerly called Junkerkopf by the locals .
history
Castle
It is no longer possible to clearly determine when the wooden palisade castle was built. Presumably it already served Charlemagne and his troops in the Saxon Wars (772 to 804) as a strategic outpost to secure the Frankish Empire .
Several drawings on a sign near the former castle indicate that the Igelsburg probably cannot be classified as a classic castle complex. Because within four ring walls , some of which can still be seen today, four houses can be seen on this sketch, two of them on the summit, the other two a little further down.
Historians assume that the noble family of Barons von Dörnberg , first mentioned in 1100 in the Habichtswald area, had its seat in the castle. Probably as early as the 12th or 13th century, the wooden houses of the Igelsburg fell into disrepair.
pottery
It was not until 1969 that excavations revealed that there was a small pottery between 1350 and 1450 on the meadows and fields a little further west of the castle , which stood on a small hill; This is indicated by finds from the middle of the 13th and the first third of the 14th centuries, as well as two small ponds in the forest, from which the pottery obtained the water required to slurry the clay. In this company, clay pots were probably made for the common citizen, which is indicative of pottery shards.
Transport links
Bundesstraße 251 ( called Wolfhager Straße there) runs about 700 m north below the former Igelsburg . It leads curvy from the Kassel district of Harleshausen , crossing the lawn avenue , westwards through the Habichtswald and after a few kilometers passes the old restaurant Ahnetal , which stands next to a narrow right-hand bend in the street in the Ahne valley. After leaving the Habichtswald, the B 251 runs through the Habichtswald districts of Dörnberg and Ehlen eastwards to the Zierenberg junction of the federal motorway 44 .
At the edge of the Habichtswald near the B 251, about 1.5 km east of the village of Dörnberg, by an old gravel works, the Igelsburg hikers' car park ( ⊙ ) is located. From there you walk up a sparsely asphalted mine road to the west above the ancestor , which is hidden in the forest, and is closed to public motor vehicle traffic. At the edge of the forest that kinks to the right about 500 m south of the B 251, turn west and shortly afterwards south to the former fortress.
In front of the former Igelsburg restaurant (1911 to 1996) there is a small display board with information about the former castle to the left of a neighboring road .
Excursion destinations
In the Habichtswald - above the former Igelsburg - the Silbersee is located in a former open-cast mine , a lake that was created after the end of basalt mining. From there, hiking trails lead to the Silbersee restaurant and along the ancestor to Hercules , where the Kassel water games in the Wilhelmshöhe mountain park begin.
literature
- Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 29.
Web links
- Igelsburg, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Drawings on sign: from Hessische Post , year 1912, weekly supplement No. 29
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