Burgstall Kirchberg (Lollar)

Burgstall Kirchberg
Creation time :	1366
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Lollar - Ruttershausen
Geographical location	50 ° 39 '39.9 "  N , 8 ° 42' 57.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '39.9 "  N , 8 ° 42' 57.7"  E
Height:	166  m above sea level NN

The Postal Kirchberg is an Outbound hilltop castle on 166  m above sea level. NN in the area of ​​the Kirchberg today east of the Lahn opposite the district Ruttershausen and with this part of the city Lollar in the district of Gießen in Hesse .

The castle complex, which can no longer be precisely located today, probably near the old church , was built in 1366 by Count Johann von Nassau to monitor the Hessian-landgrave road from Gießen to Marburg and was intended to secure its own northern connection route from Treis to Londorf .

Just a few years later around 1370 (according to other information in 1372) the castle was destroyed by Landgrave Heinrich II of Hesse .

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications . 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 305.
• Georg Wilhelm Sante (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 4: Hessen (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 274). 3rd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-27403-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirchberg, District of Giessen. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 16, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 12, 2012 . 
2. ^ Entry on Kirchberg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".