Heimburg Castle Stables

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Heimburg Castle Stables
Alternative name (s): Raubenburg, Rabsburgk
Creation time : probably 12th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of a wall
Place: Gilserberg - Heimbach
Geographical location 50 ° 55 '42.6 "  N , 9 ° 0' 18"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '42.6 "  N , 9 ° 0' 18"  E
Height: 373  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Heimburg (Hesse)
Heimburg Castle Stables

The Heimburg castle stables , historically also known as Raubenburg and Rabsburgk , is an abandoned hilltop castle south of the small village of Heimbach , a district of the community of Gilserberg in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

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The facility is located about 300 m south of the village center on the oval hilltop of the 373 m high, densely wooded castle hill, on the northern slope of which the village extends down into the valley of the Heimbach . The clock-lid-like hilltop stretches under the forest from the southeast to the northwest and drops moderately steeply to the southwest and northeast. To the southeast, the terrain is flatter and is formed into a small spur .

Only small remains of the former castle are preserved today: ramparts and excavation ditches , created when the foundation walls were broken off in the 19th century. In the first half of the 19th century, remains of the wall up to 6 m high are said to have stood. The time of its construction is uncertain, but typologically it can be assigned to the late Carolingian - high medieval "transition phase". The inner ring of the fortification of the former hill fort encloses an area of ​​about. 0.4 hectares and was surrounded by a curtain wall. Only on the south-eastern half of the facility are an upstream ditch and wall about 80 m long. At the top of the mountain spur there was a weak embankment about 35 m away. Near the center of the complex, shifted slightly to the west, there are round depressions with a diameter of approx. 4 m, which could be the remains of a small stone cellar. In the northwest area, roughly parallel to the wall, the excavation trenches of a roughly 20 × 12 m large, rectangular building run along the longitudinal axis in the southwest and in the middle of further excavation traces that may indicate supporting pillars. On the inside of the former curtain wall are excavated trenches of two small, casemate-like buildings.

history

From around the middle of the 13th century, the not insignificant noble-free family of those von Heimbach , who also owned the village as a Mainz fief , resided in the castle. They (or their unknown predecessors) probably expanded an already existing former refugee castle into their headquarters. From here they were able to guard and control both the important Sälzer Weg in Heimbachtal , which ran from Treysa to Mellnau and further west, and the road from Kassel and Fritzlar to Marburg and Frankfurt , today's Bundesstraße 3 , which runs not far to the east . The Lords of Heimbach are said to have had three fur-covered bars in the coat of arms .

When and by whom the castle was destroyed is not yet known.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ In the forest book of Landgrave Ludwig von Hessen-Marburg (1603) the castle is referred to as Rabsburgk and Heimburgk ( Felix Freiherr von und zu Gilsa: "Die Heimburg in Oberhessen". In: Mittheilungen to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Volume 1889. I-IV. Quarterly Bulletin, pp. XCVIII-XCVIII )
  2. ↑ Felix Freiherr von and to Gilsa: "The Heimburg in Upper Hesse". In: Communications to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Born in 1889. I-IV. Quarterly Bulletin, pp. XCVIII-XCVIII
  3. ↑ Felix Freiherr von and to Gilsa: "The Heimburg in Upper Hesse". In: Communications to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Born in 1889. I-IV. Quarterly Bulletin, pp. XCVIII-XCVIII

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