Burgstall Panzenberg

Burgstall Panzenberg
Alternative name (s):	Banzenberg, Lüsprg
Creation time :	medieval
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	unknown
Construction:	unknown
Place:	Volkmarsen
Geographical location	51 ° 24 '34.7 "  N , 9 ° 7' 53.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '34.7 "  N , 9 ° 7' 53.8"  E

The Postal Panzenberg even Banzenberg or Lüsprüng called, is a really nameless, medieval , Outbound and only through Wall- and grave remains detectable Höhenburg unknown-sized assignment in Volkmarsen in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse .

location

The Burgstall is located on a small hill that is now again wooded and surrounded by fields, the Panzenberg or Banzenberg , east of Volkmarsen about 450 meters south of the Kugelsburg and with it in line of sight. The hilltop made of shell limestone lies a few meters north above the Erpe , which meanders slightly from the south and turns westwards to turn westwards around the Kugelsberg massif to the north. Above the hilltop, Kasseler Straße (L 3075) runs west-east parallel to the Erpe and bends east of the hilltop, meeting the L 3080, at right angles to the south.

history

The history of the castle complex, rediscovered in 2001 by the district archaeologist Klaus Sippel, is completely unknown. Documentary documents relating to the fortification are not known. The corridors of the district of Volkmarsen are named as Banzen-Berg , Hinterm Banzenberg , am Panzenberge .

In 1903 the engineer Ernst Happel , who dealt with medieval castles in Northern Hesse, described the facility as follows:

“Below the castle, an earth fortification is still visible on the Panzenberg , which was probably built as a road block. Except for the north side, the debris of the hill was free of storms and the palisade fence was sufficient , on the (annter) side double ditches and walls were raised. "

The expert on northern Hessian castle landscapes Wilhelm Lange (1857–1928), Kassel doctor and librarian , also described the facility as a road jump in his directory of Hessian fortifications in 1906 :

"... the Lüspring , small ski jump on the Volkmarsen- Breuna road , south of the Kugelsburg."

The Hessian archaeologist Roland Schröder (1902–1943), who visited the Burgstall in 1919, 1923 and 1924, also stated:

“The Panzenberg ... had a fortification made up of partly double walls and ditches (north side). Walls have never been found. ... The fortification should be an early or high Middle Ages. Be roadblock. ... "

description

From the hilltop castle only a double wall-ditch system can be seen on the west side towards Volkmarsen. The flat, almost rectangular dome, which slopes slightly to the west, has dimensions of around 33 by 26 meters. A development can no longer be determined. In the east and south the castle area drops naturally and steeply; to the north this has recently been artificially created by creating a leveled garden; to the west the terrain drops less steeply and runs out into the Erpe stream level.

Today the north side is through the garden of 19./20. Century heavily reshaped. The double moat is clearly visible in the west and partly in the south. The inner, higher ditch is about five meters below the castle level and is about eight meters wide and two meters deep in the upper area. The outer ditch runs parallel to the west around the hill in smaller dimensions. Coming from the west, the trenches run out as a stepped terrain on the steep southern slope .

Klaus Sippel found the moats heavily overgrown with the small periwinkle ruderal plant . It only came to northern Hesse as an ornamental and medicinal plant in the Middle Ages and is mostly found on old castles. Sippel found ceramic shards and three fragments of the edge of spherical pots that can be dated to the 13th century. Schröder also reported in his notes that an arrowhead was found by the postmaster Herget , who had the garden on the north side laid out around 1900. Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the find.

Sippel concludes from the finds and the extensive, secured weir system that there is an inhabited castle instead of a short-term manned dam / hill. He places them next to the Kugelsburg as a possible outer bailey or fortified castle man's seat . A function as a counter-castle can be ruled out, as it could hardly have been dangerous to the Kugelsburg as a lower-lying, small complex. Like the castles around Bilstein or the Schauenburg , Sippel sees them as a kind of Vorwerk for active control of the area around the main castle.

Sippel sees stone finds on the Panzenberg (set sandstones) as traces of the pavilion of the garden to the north. A precise topographical plan of the facility does not yet exist.

Monument protection

The Burgstall 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: A newly discovered castle on the Panzenberg not far from the Kugelsburg near Volkmarsen . In: hessen ARCHÄOLOGIE , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1749-1 . Pp. 142-145
• Ernst Happel: The castles in Lower Hesse and the Werra region , Marburg 1903, p. 51
• Wilhelm Lange: Hesse in prehistoric times and early history . In: (Ed.) Carl Hessler: Hessische Landes- und Volkskunde: the former Kurhessen and the hinterland at the end of the 19th century , Volume 1, Part 1, Verlag NG Elwert, Marburg 1906, p. 316

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Banzen-Berg (Volkmarsen, Gem. Volkmarsen, Waldeck-Frankenberg). Hessian field names. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 16, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Quoted from Sippel: A newly discovered castle on the Panzenberg not far from the Kugelsburg near Volkmarsen , p. 143
3. ↑ ^{a b} Sippel: A newly discovered castle on the Panzenberg not far from the Kugelsburg near Volkmarsen , p. 144