Kleiner Gudenberg castle ruins

Kleiner Gudenberg castle ruins
Creation time :	documentary Mentioned in 1175
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Trench, wall, wall remains
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Zierenberg
Geographical location	51 ° 22 '10.5 "  N , 9 ° 15' 57.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '10.5 "  N , 9 ° 15' 57.6"  E
Height:	531.8  m above sea level NHN

The castle ruin Kleiner Gudenberg is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 531.8  m above sea level. NN high Kleinen Gudenberg near Zierenberg in the north Hessian district of Kassel ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The castle ruins are located in the northern part of the Habichtswald Nature Park on the Kleiner Gudenberg, a densely wooded basalt cone that rises almost 2.3 kilometers (km) west of the core town of Zierenberg and almost 2.3 km east-southeast of its Oberelsungen district . To the northeast of the mountain, the terrain slopes down to the valley of the warmth . The castle ruins on the Great Gudenberg are located about 470 meters to the southeast , the Bärenberg tower is located on the Großer Bärenberg about 1.9 km to the south, the Falkenberg castle ruins are located about 1.8 km to the north-northeast , and Escheberg Castle is about 3.15 km to the north-northwest .

history

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1175, but was probably built during the time of the Hessian Count Werner IV . It was the Mainz fiefdom of the Lords of Gudenberg . The castle was destroyed by Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse in the Mainz-Hessian conflict in 1269/72 .

investment

The ruin is freely accessible, but can only be reached on paths and paths that lead up to the Kleiner Gudenberg, some of which are steep. All that remains of the former castle are remains of moats , walls and ramparts.

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. 27f.)
• Hans Magerstädt: "The Gudenburgen near Zierenberg." In: Hessischer Gebirgsbote 70 (1969), pp. 11-13
• Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners , 4th volume, JJ Bohné, Kassel 1839 (p. 233ff.)

Web link

• Gudenburg (Kleiner Gudenberg), Kassel district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of June 24, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 10, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ↑ It is not clear whether the families of the Groppe von Gudenberg and Wolff von Gudenberg , who were seated on the neighboring Großer Gudenberg, were related to them.