Castle stable Ulfa

Castle stable Ulfa
Alternative name (s):	Old castle
Creation time :	11th century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Nidda - Ulfa - "Old Castle"
Geographical location	50 ° 27 '46.9 "  N , 9 ° 0' 59.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '46.9 "  N , 9 ° 0' 59.7"  E
Height:	175  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Ulfa , also known as the Old Castle , describes an abandoned medieval castle in the "Alte Burg" corridor east of the center of Ulfa , a district of the town of Nidda in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

The castle was probably built in the 11th century. In 1129 the associated local nobility, the possible builders of the castle, was first mentioned with Eckehardus de Horlefe . Mentioned several times as witnesses in documents in the 13th century, they probably died out with Guntram von Olphe around 1306. The castle fell by inheritance to the Schweinsberg taverns .

Nothing has survived from the small castle complex, which fell into ruin after 1290 and was secured by ramparts and moats . In 1922 the trenches of the otherwise completely dilapidated castle were found during excavations.

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. 362

Web links

• Ulfa, Wetterau district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 11, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 26, 2014 . 
• Entry on Ulfa Castle in the private database "All Castles".

1. ^ Günther Stahnke: Ulfa. 15th to 17th centuries. From the time of the 30 Years War, the time before and after. History Association Ulfa, Nidda 2018, p. 8.