Burgstall Brungershausen

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Burgstall Brungershausen
Creation time : 700 to 800
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Lahntal - Brungershausen
Geographical location 50 ° 51 '54.7 "  N , 8 ° 38' 3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '54.7 "  N , 8 ° 38' 3"  E
Height: 229  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Brungershausen (Hesse)
Burgstall Brungershausen
Location and research results from 1996

The Burgstall Brungershausen is a defunct Niederungsburg near the Brungershausen district of the Lahntal community in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

location

The castle was located just west of today's location in the Heinwaldsfeld corridor . In this area, the Warzenbach flows in an arc around the castle grounds from the north; the Altehude corridor is to the east of the stream . The castle area is still used agriculturally as arable land and pasture. On an old land map from 1845, the castle site is indicated by a conspicuously marshy spot that was marked by the map-maker at the time.

Finding

The entire complex had a size of about 3000 m², it consisted of trenches , walls, stone buildings and a massive tower. The salvaged pottery is predominantly found in the 10th to 13th centuries; it is a light-toned, hard-fired type of earthenware under the addition of oxygen , mostly in the shape of a spherical pot , the color spectrum of which varies from light brown to yellow to gray and white. Late medieval ceramic material from the late 13th to 15th centuries has not yet appeared, which suggests an early end of the castle complex as early as the 13th century.

history

The castle was built in the 8th century and expanded in the 10th and 13th centuries. A review of the central Hessian archives (e.g. documents from the monasteries of Caldern, Haina, Georgenberg and the Marburg monasteries) revealed evidence of a noble family named after the place: in a certificate issued by Count Widekind von Battenberg in 1254 from the monastery of Caldern Gerlach von Brungershausen noted. From the document, however, it cannot be concluded without a doubt whether this Gerlach was a nobleman or a peasant.

In 1992 a square tower foundation was discovered. Traces of the terrain are still preserved from the former castle complex.

In 1995 the student “Research Group Brungershausen” was brought into being at the Prehistory Seminar of the University of Marburg . The aim is to explore the castle desert, which was only discovered in an aerial photo in 1992. So far , the castle complex has been examined with the help of surface inspection, geoelectrical and geomagnetic prospection . The measurement using a laser tachymeter made it possible to create a three-dimensional terrain model with the exact location of the castle in the area. The analysis of the ceramics resulted in a chronological classification partly in the 8th to 9th centuries, partly in the 10th to 13th centuries. The result of the analysis of various aerial photographs, the processing of the surface finds and the geophysical prospection is the addressing of the finding as a castle complex with a tower made of stone with surrounding stone buildings, ditches and walls.

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. 118

Web links

  • Entry by Michael Losse zu Brungershausen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bernhard Schroth: Interdisciplinary Castle Research in Marburg . In: German Society for Pre- and Early History [DGUF] (Hrsg.): Archäologische Informations . tape 19 1/2 . Dr. Rudolph Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1996, p. 205–206 ( journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b c Norbert Buthmann, Norbert Goßler, Alex Posluschny, Helmut Valand, Benno Zickgraf: Modern prospecting methods in castle research - Archaeological investigations on the medieval castle complex of Lahntal-Brungershausen / Hessen . In: Castles and Palaces . 38, issue 1998 II. Braubach / Rhein 1998, p. 80-87 .