Burgstall Blumenrod

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Burgstall Blumenrod
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Place: Limburg an der Lahn - Linter
Geographical location 50 ° 22 '6.3 "  N , 8 ° 4' 18.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '6.3 "  N , 8 ° 4' 18.7"  E
Height: 180  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Blumenrod (Hesse)
Burgstall Blumenrod

The Burgstall Blumenrod is an abandoned castle south of the Blumenrod residential area in the south of the city of Limburg an der Lahn in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse .

Nothing is known about the time when the castle was founded or who built it. A feudal letter from 1373 from the Archbishop of Trier to von Bubenheim , in which "House and farm of Blumenrod" are mentioned, indicates a "solid stone house". In the 15th century the castle was mentioned again in a chronicle.

In his description of the Duchy of Nassau in 1843, Christian Daniel Vogel describes the remains as: “Two nobles had a castle here, which is said to have been destroyed in a popular uprising in 1242. You can still see its castle shell, with sunken ramparts and ditches very close to the Blumenrod court. ” If this information is correct, then the castle was a Ganerbeburg .

In the history of the Blumenrod domain , reference is also made to the fact that the farm was located 300 m further south in the Linter district until 1720 , which supports Vogel's reference under the heading Linter .

The remains of the castle are said to have been used either in the 1930s to build a military airfield or only in 1973 to build a water tank.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: A supplement to the manual “Medieval Castles in Hessen” , in Marburg's correspondence sheet on castle research: Yearbook of the Marburger Burgen-Arbeitskreis , Volume 2 (1999/2000), publisher of the Working Group for European Castle Research, Marburg 2000, ISBN 978-3 -9807558-0-1 . P. 117 f.
  • Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau , Wiesbaden 1843, p. 786 (in the description of the current place Lint (h) er ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad von Falkenstein was Archbishop of Trier from 1362 to 1388
  2. ↑ a b c Rudolf Knappe: A supplement to the manual "Medieval Castles in Hessen" , p. 117f.
  3. ↑ see the history of the Blumenrod domain
  4. ↑ On the assignment problems see also: Nassauische Annalen: Jahrbuch des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung , Volume 118, Vereinsverlag, 2007. pp. 199–210