Burgstall Linne

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Burgstall Linne
Alternative name (s): Lynne Castle, Linneburg, Küppel, Kippel
Creation time : High medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Parts of the tower hill have been preserved
Standing position : Ministeriale
Construction: not clear
Place: Burgwald - Bottendorf -Linnermühle
Geographical location 51 ° 1 '28.3 "  N , 8 ° 49' 36.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '28.3 "  N , 8 ° 49' 36.7"  E
Burgstall Linne (Hesse)
Burgstall Linne

The Burgstall Linne is the remains of a high medieval moth (tower hill castle) from Ministeriale directly south of the Linnermühle near Bottendorf , part of the Burgwald municipality in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse .

location

The Burgstall is located near today's Linnermühle, which is about one kilometer east of Bottendorf in the meadow valley of the Kaltes Wasser brook , a right tributary of the Nemphe , at the foot of the 375 m high Linnerberg . The moth remnant is about 60 meters southwest of the mill on the other side of the stream, which runs roughly in the middle between the mill and the remainder of the hill and curves around the Linnerberg to the south. The remains of the castle are known by the population as Küppel or Kippel .

history

The castle stable, the last remnant of which is now a lightly overgrown mound of earth, is seen in the complex as a moated castle . In 1875 it was still considered a barrow and in 1940 the former rector Heinrich Henkel, who was born in the Linnermühle, reported that the population believed that there was a knight's grave under the hill . In 1929 it was stated succinctly that the hill did not look prehistoric . In 1937 a second small hill was described and interpreted as an outer bailey. Nothing is left of him today. It was not until 2001 that the district archaeologist discovered that it was the remains of a medieval low castle of the moth type.

The motte was probably owned by the von Linne family (also Lynne ), who have been traced here since 1251 and who later owned the Fritzlar area in and around Obermöllrich . A Heinrich (verified 1240–1264) and a Konrad von Linne (verified 1240–1271) are recorded as castle men of Frankenberg Castle in Frankenberg under Tammo von Beltershausen .

Today's desert village and the associated mill must be older, because the molendinum Linda has been documented since 1215. According to Klaus Sippel, the village of villa Lynden was probably only mentioned directly in 1313, but it was recorded as a location in the archive of the Haina monastery as early as 1240 .

In 1389 the lords of Linne sold their property to Landgrave Hermann II of Hesse and subsequently kept it as a fief . How that fits with the Nassau document of 1395, in which Johann von Nassau signed the Sifrid von Linne with the inheritance of those von Linne, which must have certainly included the ancestral land around the Linnerberg, and the inheritance of the (presumably expired) Kri (e) g von Buchenau (the fiefdom of Buchenau , Hartenrod , Eisemroth , Hirzenhain ), as well as the fiefdom of the Vogtei of Battenfeld and the tithes of Breidenbach , Elsbach (Melspach), Gladenbach , Rossbach , Oberhörle and Friedensdorf , must certainly still be examined.

According to Sippel, the von Linne died out around 1503 or became bourgeois. For January 24, 1568, however, a bond from the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel to the creditors of those of Linne is notarized, and in 1583 another Johann von Linne zu Willersdorf and his wife Agatha document the sale of a meadow to the hospital in Frankenberg .

It is not known when the moth of those von Linne was abandoned or destroyed. Of course, there is also a legend about the ghost of the white maiden walking around the Burgstall .

Allegedly, on the summit of the Linnerberg, a hilltop castle of the Linne should have stood. Building remains were not found on the mountain in the course of recent investigations.

description

The moth remnant is now around 13 by 7 meters and around 2.5 meters high. Since the surrounding meadow was raised about one to one and a half meters high when the road was built in the 1960s, the moth hill is actually correspondingly higher. It was thanks to the pastor of Bottendorf at the time, Gustav Hammann , that the moth hill was not completely leveled. From the cut-off northern part of the hill, loose soil mixed with sandstone rubble is visible evidence of the moth's heap. Since more detailed studies of the moth are still lacking, the question must remain whether there was a wooden or a stone tower block. Mill, small town and castle seat as a settlement for the conquest of land are typical for the medieval land development.

Monument protection

The tower hill is a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.

literature

  • Klaus Sippel: An unknown castle next to the Linnermühle near Bottendorf. In: hessenARCHÄOLOGIE 2001. Yearbook for archeology and palaeontology in Hessen. Preservation of monuments of the State of Hesse (ed.), Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1749-1 , pp. 129-138.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Second addendum (to the book Medieval Castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites ), Marburger Correspondenzblatt zur Castle Research , Vol. 3, Marburg 2001/2002, p. 100
  • (Responsible) Friedrich Bleibaum , Ernst Sobotha: Handbook of the Heimatbund for Kurhessen and Waldeck: Kreis Frankenberg (Volume 1), Heimatbund for Kurhessen and Waldeck, Verlag Bernecker, Melsungen 1961, p. 61

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Klaus Sippel: An unknown castle next to the Linnermühle near Bottendorf. P. 136
  2. a b c d Wasserburg Linne, Burgwald community. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of October 2, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Ulrich Ritzerfeld: The knight Tammo von Beltershausen. Berich Abbey and the founding of the city of Frankenberg an der Eder. A contribution to the history of the monastery and the Ludowingian ministry in Hesse in the middle of the 13th century. In: Religious Movements in the Middle Ages , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20060-2 , p. 205
  4. a b c Klaus Sippel: An unknown castle next to the Linnermühle near Bottendorf. P. 137
  5. ^ Franz G. Eckhart ( arrangement ): Kloster Haina, Volume 1: 1144-1300 , publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck, Verlag Elwert, Marburg 1962, p. 78, certificate no. 121.
  6. ^ Melsbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of February 9, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 28, 2019 .
  7. Document: Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: HHStAW inventory 170 I No. U 840
  8. Document: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg: HStAM inventory document 11 No. 979
  9. Document: Stadtarchiv Frankenberg: StadtA FKB inventory A1 No. 2872
  10. a b Klaus Sippel: An unknown castle next to the Linnermühle near Bottendorf. P. 138