Burgstall Poppenhausen

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Burgstall Poppenhausen
Preserved remains of the wall with archway

Preserved remains of the wall with archway

Creation time : around 1327
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, cellar
Place: Poppenhausen
Geographical location 50 ° 29 '20.3 ​​"  N , 9 ° 52' 7.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '20.3 ​​"  N , 9 ° 52' 7.5"  E
Height: 450  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Poppenhausen (Hesse)
Burgstall Poppenhausen

The Burgstall Poppenhausen is a lost moated castle in Poppenhausen in the Fulda district in Hesse .

history

According to Louis Ferdinand Freiherr von Eberstein, the predecessor castle was destroyed by the Fulda monastery in 1271, because u. a. also the knights of Ebersberg , Steinau called Steinrück and Eberstein, who owned the village at the time, participated in the assassination of the Fulda prince abbot Bertho II von Leibolz .

For the first time in 1327 there was talk of a castle, the center of which was probably on today's market square . The lower, westernmost point was at the confluence of the Lütter and Haardt near the Vey mill . With a terrain of just over 10,000 square meters, the moated castle was larger than many other castles in the area. Estimates from 1365 over a quarter of the castle (referred to as the castle in the document) result in the total of 4,400 pounds hellers for the entire castle . This leaves the other castles in the Grabfeldgau far behind. In 1387 Friedrich von Ebersberg opened his part of the castle to the Archbishop of Mainz, Adolf I of Nassau . In 1388, Prince Abbot Friedrich I von Romrod from Fulda launched an unsuccessful attack on Poppenhausen. In 1393 the moated castle passed another baptism of fire victoriously. The abbot of Fulda, in league with Balthasar von Wettin , Margrave of Meißen and Landgrave of Thuringia , did not succeed in penetrating the castle despite a long siege, combined with "fires" and heavy shelling with large "Steyn balls". The Poppenhausen knights signed a "Burgfride ober Bappenhausen" with 39 articles in 1394, the first castle truce known from the Rhön . Attempts by Würzburg Bishop Johann I von Egloffstein from 1402 and 1406 to storm the castle also failed. It was not until 1459 that the fortress was conquered and largely destroyed by the Fulda prince abbot Reinhard Graf von Weilnau together with the Counts of Henneberg .

Later, on one of the vaulted cellars in the center of the village was the office of the Lords of Berlepsch . In 1802 a new half-timbered building with a mansard roof and crooked hip was built here. Today the Gasthaus Zum Stern is located there . Further medieval castle cellars are located under the "Zum Hirsch" inn on the market square , old sandstone walls with arches in the gateway , and the "Ziehbrunnen" of the Ganerbeburg below the new parish center from 1980. The street names "Burgstraße", "Torweg" and " Wallweg "still reminds of the mighty moated castle as well as some mighty late medieval projectiles ( Bliden ) in scattered places.

In 1991, during construction work on a new tourist center (today the town hall ), another vaulted cellar came to light elsewhere. It previously served as a warehouse for the Leo Bub furniture company. After the northern shield wall of the vaulted concrete barrel had already been torn down, the monument protection authority was called in, which ensured the preservation and security of the old cellar, which is accessible again today.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 216f.
  • Michael Mott : Ortschronik Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe) - Preserve tradition - Live progress (850 years 1165–2015: Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe) community), BestPricePrinting, Seefeld (Upper Bavaria) 2015.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Poppenhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Ferdinand Freiherr von Eberstein: History of the barons of Eberstein and their possessions. Verlag Fr. Aug. Eupel, Sondershausen 1865. p. 20.
  2. ↑ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments Hessen 1. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 748.
  3. ↑ Michael Mott : A vaulted cellar "appeared" / Research should clarify: Castle cellar of the robber barons? Mysterious escape route? / New use: local history museum! In: Fulda newspaper. June 6, 1991, p. 14.