Eulenburg (Mansbach)

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Eulenburg
Today's building on the Eulenburg

Today's building on the Eulenburg

Alternative name (s): Alte Burg, Altes Schloss, Mansbach Castle
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, built over
Standing position : Knighthood
Place: Hohenroda - Mansbach
Geographical location 50 ° 46 '56.7 "  N , 9 ° 54' 51.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '56.7 "  N , 9 ° 54' 51.7"  E
Height: 315  m above sea level NN
Eulenburg (Hesse)
Eulenburg

The Eulenburg is an abandoned Niederungsburg in what is now the Mansbach part of the Hohenroda municipality in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in Hesse .

Demolished in 1935, the so-called welfare building of the Remonteamte was built in its place in 1939 .

location

Mansbach emerged as a place close to the old Hessian- Thuringian border in the foothills of the Vorde rhön . The castle on the western outskirts between Buttlarstrasse , Oberhof and Hünstelder Strasse and north of the modern Geyso castle was a local castle , in contrast to the much older Grasburg , an early medieval hilltop castle a few hundred meters further northwest. The Eulenburg is sometimes also viewed as a moated castle .

history

The von Mansbach , known as Rucher von Mannesbach in 1232 , built a small lordship around Mansbach and built a castle to protect them. Already at the end of the second third of the 13th century came into conflict with the Fulda monastery , the castle was destroyed again in 1276 and / or 1280 by Prince Abbot Bertho IV . From then on, Fulda regarded himself as a feudal lord . It was not until Ludwig von Mansbach , Abbot of Fulda 1324 to 1343, that the castle was rebuilt around 1342. In 1364 Fulda left the jurisdiction to the local lords . In 1446 they received the place as inheritance , but in 1454 they had to pledge it to Fulda due to financial difficulties.

The Mansbachers, who felt they belonged to the Buchonian knighthood , were members of the knightly cantons of Rhön and Werra and achieved their recognition in the 17th century through acceptance into the Frankish imperial knighthood , but Mansbach did not become imperial knighthood rule until 1789.

In the middle of the 16th century, the Mansbach family split into two lines, with Karl and Wilhelm von Mansbach initially using the castle together. A dispute between the two Mansbach lines let the abbot of Fulda divide their property into two manor districts in 1569. Karl von Mansbach (1521–1599) received Obermannsbach and had the Upper Castle (sundial building) built for himself and his wife Anna von Boyneburg . Wilhelm von Mansbach got Untermannsbach and from 1577 built the Wilhelmsburg , the forerunner of the Geyso castle.

Documented around 1560, the Eulenburg was rebuilt and expanded again, but destroyed again in the Thirty Years War and remained in ruins .

In 1652, Wilhelm's line sold part of their property around the Wilhelmsburg and Eulenburg to the then Hessian Lieutenant General Johann von Geyso , so that Mansbach was divided into three of Fulda 's lands until it was mediatized , but was divided into knight estates that were practically imperial free .

Mansbach first came to the Principality of Nassau-Oranien-Fulda from 1803 to 1806 , and was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 (Departement der Werra, District Hersfeld). In 1815 the manor districts were dissolved. With the Congress of Vienna, Mansbach came briefly to Prussia and then to the Electorate of Hesse . In 1816 it was assigned to the Eiterfeld office, and in 1821 it was assigned to the Hünfeld district . In 1867 Mansbach came to the Kingdom of Prussia and was added to the province of Hessen-Nassau .

The remaining ownership of the castle ruins is opaque due to quick purchase and resale. Their remains were mostly only viewed as part of the property around the Geyso Castle.

Beginning in 1935, the remains of the old castle were demolished and the moats filled in. A coat of arms stone with the inscription VALENTIN VON GEYSO is walled up in the courtyard of the building, which was rebuilt until 1939 . During the Nazi era, the newly created property on the Eulenburg was called the welfare building and was used as the administrative seat of the local Remonteamte . The last trenches were not leveled until 1974.

description

Pictures and drawings suggest that the Eulenburg buildings also stood in an L-shape to one another, the half-timbered house with stone foundations with a gable roof , the adjoining building, bricked up to the first floor, with a half-timbered floor with a half- hipped roof . At the time of the demolition there were stables on the ground floor and simple apartments on the upper floor. The castle had mighty vaulted cellars.

The new building from 1935 to 1939, as it is still today, tried to tie in with these medieval forms. In the new administration building, bathrooms were set up for the workers in the basement, utility kitchens on the ground floor and the paymaster's office on the upper floor.

The building is now privately owned.

literature

  • Anja Daume: Galloping against the wind , Tourist Association Mansbach-SoisliedenBoD Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-0527-6 . ( Excerpts online )
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 197 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Knappe, p. 198
  2. ↑ a b Bernhard Peter: Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 2389: The Geyso Castle in Mansbach , Heraldic Website; accessed on March 21, 2017
  3. ↑ Mansbach, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of March 18, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Daume: Galloping Against the Wind , p. 16
  5. ^ Bernhard Peter: Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 2390: The Oberhof in Mansbach , Heraldic Website; accessed on March 21, 2017
  6. ↑ Website of the tourist association Mansbach-Soislieden eV
  7. ↑ Knappe, p. 197
  8. ↑ a b Daume: Galloping against the wind , p. 117 ff.