Malsburg castle ruins
| Malsburg | ||
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| Creation time : | before 1123 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Fountain, wall and tower remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Zierenberg - Hohenborn | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 24 '38 " N , 9 ° 15' 37" E | |
| Height: | 405.6 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle ruin Malsburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle northwest of the core town of Zierenberg in the district of Kassel , northern Hesse . The castle was once the ancestral home of the von der Malsburg family .
Geographical location
The remains of the former Malsburg Castle are located in the northern part of the Habichtswald Nature Park at 405.6 m above sea level. NN high Malsberg, a wooded basalt cone of the Malsburg forest . It rises around 5.5 km northwest of Zierenberg and around 1.7 km southwest of Zierenberg- Hohenborn .
To the east of the Malsberg, the terrain slopes down towards the Warm Valley. About 3.8 km southeast of the Malsburg castle ruins is the Schartenberg castle ruins , about 2.8 km south-southeast the Falkenberg castle ruins and about 1.6 km south-south-west is the Escheberg castle . About 1.5 km south-east lies the small village of Laar with Laar Castle, directly on the Warme .
investment
The Malsburg was a relatively small complex with an elongated rectangular main building. Remains of the wall as well as the remains of a tower with a diameter of 6.5 m with a stair spindle and a well are preserved today .
history
The Malsburg was first mentioned in 1123, but was built earlier. In 1124 Volkold / Folkold and Udalrich von Warthbeche, sons of Volkold I , gave the Malsburg, inherited from their father, and the neighboring Schartenberg Castle to Archbishop Adalbert I of Mainz . Volkold had already moved to Nidda , where his family owned property and he founded the short-lived family of the Counts of Nidda from the Malsburg family. Mainz enfeoffed the Counts of Dassel with Schartenberg Castle, but after Udalrich's death occupied the Malsburg with their own castle men . In 1143 the ministerials Stephan and Dietrich von Malsburg were named there, members of a lower aristocratic family that was probably a branch of the Schartenberg family and now called themselves "von der Malsburg" after their castle seat . In 1213 the castle was a Mainz fief of a branch of the Groppe von Gudenberg family .
Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse conquered the Malsburg in 1260 (?) During the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession , but had to return it to Mainz. She was then part of the Mainz office of Hofgeismar .
In 1329 the noblemen Stephan and Hermann von der Malsburg pledged a castle seat on the Malsburg to the knight Rabe von Pappenheim and his brothers in the name of their sons and other brothers ; The Pappenheimers were not allowed to harm the Malsburg lords, the Archbishop of Mainz and the Duke Otto von Braunschweig-Göttingen from the Malsburg. In 1337 the people of Malsburg opened their castle to the Archbishop of Mainz, his officials and the city of Hofgeismar. In addition, they gave him their village Esebecke as a fief and received it back as a hereditary castle fief.
In 1353 the Malsburg and the Sababurg were transferred to the castle hat to Bishop Balduin of Paderborn during a pledge , so that he could protect them and keep them open to the Mainz archbishopric .
After the decisive military defeats of Archbishop Konrad III of Mainz . von Dhaun against the Hessian Landgrave Ludwig I near Fritzlar and Fulda in 1427, with whom Ludwig finally secured territorial supremacy in Lower and Upper Hesse , the Malsburg also fell to the Landgraves of Hesse.
Individual evidence
literature
- Wilhelm Grotefend: "The oldest history of the Malsburg and its owners". In: Hessenland. Journal for Hessian history and literature . Issue 9. 1895.
- Rainer Decker: The history of the castles in the Warburg / Zierenberg area , Hofgeismar 1989, p. 13f.
- Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3rd edition. Wartberg-Verlag. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000. ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 30.
- Heiner Wittekindt: "On the history of the Malsburg", in: Yearbook of the district of Kassel 1980 , p. 29 ff.
Web links
- Malsburg, Kassel district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of April 9, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 28, 2014 .
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