Schöneberg castle ruins

Schöneberg castle ruins
Schönberg ruins above Hofgeismar (from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian the Younger , 1655)
Alternative name (s):	Schöneburg
Creation time :	around 1122
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, a few rubble
Standing position :	Nobles, counts, clericals
Place:	Hofgeismar - Schöneberg
Geographical location	51 ° 31 '26 "  N , 9 ° 23' 55"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '26 "  N , 9 ° 23' 55"  E
Height:	323.2  m above sea level NHN

The castle ruin Schöneberg , also called Schöneburg , is a ruin of a hilltop castle from the 12th century near Hofgeismar in the Hessian district of Kassel in Germany .

Geographical location

The castle ruin Schöneberg is located on the steep basalt cone of 323.2  m above sea level. NHN high Schöneberg, north of Hofgeismar, northwest of the village of Schöneberg (northeastern part of Hofgeismar) and south of Hümme (northern part of Hofgeismar). The Diemel tributary Esse runs west past the Schöneberg , to which - measured near the Hof / Weiler Schießbach - there is an altitude difference of around 190 m.

The castle can only be reached on forest paths in Schöneberg.

history

Hofgeismar and Schöneberg Castle (1655)

Count Hermann II von Winzenburg , who built the castle around 1122 to protect his possessions, is considered to be the builder of the castle . After Hermann's murder in January 1152, the castle came to the archbishops of Mainz, who gave it to the lords of Eberschütz (von Schonenberg since 1170) as a fief. In a document from 1303, when heavy fighting broke out between Kurmainz and the Landgraviate of Hesse in the Hofgeismar area, the Lords of Schonenberg (Schöneberg) promised that the castle and the nearby Trendelburg Castle in Tindirberg (today's Trendelburg ) should be open to the archbishop at all times. After the final victory of the landgraves over Archbishop Konrad III. von Dhaun in the Mainz-Hessian War in 1427 in the battles near Fritzlar and Fulda , almost all of the former Mainz possessions in northern Hesse came under the sovereignty of the Landgraviate - including Schöneberg Castle, which was probably finally bought by Landgrave Ludwig I in 1429 . War debts from the Mainz collegiate feud (1461–1463) meant that the remaining Mainz possessions between Diemel and Weser were pledged to the Hessian Landgrave Ludwig II ; Hofgeismar also came into Hessian possession as a result.

The castle was demolished in 1582/83. Landgrave Ludwig used the stones to build the walls of the zoo on the Sababurg .

Today only a few remains of the formerly extensive castle complex are reminiscent of the castle, including a recently restored castle fountain .

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 19.

Web links

• Schöneberg Castle, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )