Döringsburg

Döringsburg
Creation time :	first mentioned in 1365
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Biedenkopf
Geographical location	50 ° 54 '49.7 " N , 8 ° 31' 41.9" E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '49.7 " N , 8 ° 31' 41.9" E
Height:	315 m above sea level NN

The Döringsburg is an abandoned castle or Burgmannenhaus in the Obergasse of the town of Biedenkopf in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

The Döringsburg was the castle seat of the von Döring , who were named in 1365 with the sale of another house at the churchyard in Biedenkopf to the Biedenkopfer citizen Kunz Ruhlen. In 1430 the Döring were enfeoffed with a castle loan of 10 pounds to Biedenkopf. New borrowings are proven up to 1512.

Ancestral coat of arms of the Döring

From 1577 the Döring owned two landgraves' castle fiefs, including the castle seat and accessories, in Biedenkopf, of which the Döringsburg burned down in 1635 and was not rebuilt.

Individual evidence

↑ Döring's coat of arms is on the epitaph for Christoff Eitel Schutzbar called Milchling and his wife Eva Dorothea von Schwalbach in the Evangelical Church of Treis an der Lumda .

Web links

Biedenkopf, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 8, 2012 .

[1] Döring's coat of arms is on the epitaph for Christoff Eitel Schutzbar called Milchling and his wife Eva Dorothea von Schwalbach in the Evangelical Church of Treis an der Lumda .