Ehrenburg (Vöhl)

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Ehrenburg
Location and remains of the castle stables

Location and remains of the castle stables

Alternative name (s): Money hole
Creation time : 700 to 800
Castle type : Höhenburg, Spornburg
Conservation status: Remains of the moat, keep and ramparts
Place: Marienhagen
Geographical location 51 ° 11 '36 "  N , 8 ° 54' 55"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '36 "  N , 8 ° 54' 55"  E
Height: 314  m above sea level NHN
Ehrenburg (Hesse)
Ehrenburg

The Ehrenburg ( vernacular : Geldloch ) near Marienhagen , a part of the municipality of Vöhl in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg ( Germany ), is the ruin of a hilltop castle that is designated as a cultural monument .

Geographical location

View to the southwest into the Ederseetal from the high medieval southern castle plateau

The Ehrenburg ruin is located in the Ederseetrog natural area, which is part of the Kellerwald , 2 km south of Marienhagen , to whose district it belongs, 1.7 km northeast of Herzhausen and 2 km west of Asel ; they are all districts of Vöhl. It is located at the Eder - river kilometer  67.9 (area of ​​the Edersee ) on a mountain spur (approx. 280 to 314  m above sea  level ), the wooded south-east foothills of the Ehrenberg ( 375  m ), a maximum of approx. 70 m above the western part of the Edersee. Beyond and thus south of the reservoir is the Vöhler district Harbshausen .

Nowadays the ruin belongs to the north-western part of the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park , which frames the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park to the south of the Edersee .

The castle ruin is the shortest way to reach the campsite on the Hochstein, which  branches off in Herzhausen from state road 3084 to the northeast along the Edersee. Shortly before reaching the campsite, the spur of the mountain foothill on which the ruin is located lies after a stream.

History and layout

The money hole - remains of the presumed keep in the middle castle plateau

The Ehrenburg was probably built in the 8th or 9th century. The archbishop of Mainz is believed to be the builder. A new building was built around 1354. Remains of the neck ditch , keep and ramparts of the former castle are still present.

On the tourism website of Vöhl, the castle is described as one of the former largest castles in the Eder valley, whose spur, about 160 meters long and about 60 meters wide, was built on. The castle was secured by a double neck ditch from the spur of the Ehrenberg coming from the north. The neck ditch continues westward on the flank. No fortifications can be seen on the steeply sloping south and east sides. The main castle complex was about 20 x 40 m in size and separated from the rest of the complex by a further section trench. A remnant of the wall that is still semicircular and only about 2.5 m in diameter can be regarded as the stump of a keep. It is popularly referred to as a money hole . Further remains of the wall are still on the southwest corner of the main castle and can be interpreted as a rectangular tower with dimensions of about 5 x 6 m. The younger core castle was built by the Counts of Schwalenberg according to the Vöhler church chronicle . As an ancestor of the Counts of Waldeck they received after a given at the Ehrenburg deed dated July 27, 1043 lehnsweise goods to Herzhausen from Corvey . In addition to the controversial document, there is still no further news about the Ehrenburg.

Tourism and hiking

The short information board on the north-north-west entrance to the castle

South past the Ehrenburg and along the north bank of the Edersee, a common section of the circular hiking trails Kellerwaldsteig (156 km long) and Urwaldsteig Edersee (68 km) leads up from the branch paths to the castle.

  • Narrow spur side with neck ditch to the southern castle plateau and formerly surrounding moat (view to the east)

  • View of the southern high medieval castle plateau towards Ederseetal

  • Upper neck ditch between northern (left) and middle (right) castle plateau

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Die Ehrenburg , in: Attractions , accessed on October 19, 2015, on voehl.de

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg publishing house. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 141
  • Willi Görich: Burgen im Amt Vöhl , In: From the past (Marburg) also supplements to the Marburg press , Vol. 37 (1950). P. 1
  • Folkhard Cremer: Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts . Part of: Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Munich 2008, Deutscher Kunstverlag, p. 643
  • Walter Kloppenburg: Mysterious Ehrenburg (near Herzhausen) , In: Local history supplement to the Waldeckische Landeszeitung " Mein Waldeck ", 1955, p. 15

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