Windhausen castle ruins
| Windhausen Castle | ||
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 Remnants of the outer bailey |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Ruin, keep, remains of walls, archway | |
| Standing position : | Local nobility | |
| Place: | Windhausen | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 47 '13.9 " N , 10 ° 12' 44.6" E | |
| Height: | 225 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Windhausen castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 225 m above sea level. NHN near Windhausen in the Lower Saxony district of Göttingen in Germany .
history
The castle was built in the High Middle Ages . The first castle men belonging Lords of Berckefeldt . The castle was later disputed between the Archdiocese of Mainz and the Principality of Grubenhagen . Laughing third was the Landgraviate of Thuringia . She came back to the Guelphs . In modern times, the lords of Oldershausen and Gittelde held feudal pledges at times. From the last Lehnsnehmer, who is also an estate in Herrhausen am Harz for fief , it had the municipality bought Windhausen in the 19th century. Then she had fallen into disrepair.
Hiking trails
The Karstwanderweg , a 233-kilometer hiking trail , runs near the ruins from Pölsfeld in Saxony-Anhalt through the karst landscape of the southern Harz Zechstein belt into the Lower Saxony forest .
literature
- Bernd Sternal, Wolfgang Braun: The Windhausen castle ruins . In: Castles and palaces in the Harz region . tape 1 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8423-3947-7 , pp. 125–127 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- Stefan Grathoff: Archbishop's castles of Mainz: acquisition and function of lordship on ... Steiner, 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-08240-2 , p. 362 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Windhausen Castle . In: Eduard Jacobs (Hrsg.): Journal of the Harz Association for history and antiquity . Self-published, Quedlinburg 1869, p. 116–117 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- On the history of the castle and the later manor Windhausen im Herzogl. Seesen District Court . In: Eduard Jacobs (Hrsg.): Journal of the Harz Association for history and antiquity . Self-published, Quedlinburg 1869, p. 211–215 ( full text in Google Book Search).
