Burgstall Kirchberg (Lollar)
Burgstall Kirchberg | ||
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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 | |
Height: | 166 m above sea level NN | |
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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
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Entry on Kirchberg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".