Landsburg (Schwalmstadt)

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Landsburg
Alternative name (s): Landisberg
Creation time : 1344 to 1345
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Count
Place: Michelsberg
Geographical location 50 ° 58 '1.3 "  N , 9 ° 12' 51.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '1.3 "  N , 9 ° 12' 51.4"  E
Height: 343  m above sea level NHN
Landsburg (Hesse)
Landsburg

The former Burgenland is an Outbound hilltop castle above sea level, located on a 342.7. NN formerly long oval basalt cone . It was located about 1.5 km west of Michelsberg in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district . Nothing is left of the former castle today.

history

The hilltop castle was built between 1344 and 1345 and was first mentioned in a document in 1345. It was created on the basis of an alliance between Count Johann I and Gottfried VII von Ziegenhain and the Hessian Landgrave Heinrich II , which they concluded against the Archbishopric of Mainz . The landgrave also promised the goat groves to help them build the castle.

In 1345 Count Johann I won the Lords of Löwenstein-Schweinsberg as hereditary castle men . The castle loan served as a replacement for the half court Wegebach (now deserted ), which had previously been owned by the Löwenstein-Schweinsberg as a castle loan .

With the castle, Landsburg became the center of a new office and judicial district for a number of surrounding places. In 1371, the Landsburg office and court included the places Holzmannshausen , Allendorf an der Landsburg , both places Michelberg , Michelsberg Knechtsbach and Diemerode , which had previously belonged to the court on the Wasen . In 1371, Count Gottfried VII transferred two thirds of the castle and court of Landsburg to Hermann von Schweinsberg and one third to Widerold von Meysenbug . Later, the Meysenbug's share in the inheritance passed on to that of von Spiegel and that of Binsförth . They left their property to the Archbishopric of Mainz in 1412 . As early as 1408, Count Johann II von Ziegenhain began to redeem the castle with a first payment. In 1437 he gave the castle to his wife Agnes von Braunschweig.

From 1450, when the counts of Ziegenhain died out, the jurisdiction was owned by the Landgraviate of Hesse . From 1461 the court was pledged : 1461 to Kaspar von Roßdorf, 1480 to Hans von Dörnberg, from 1490 to the landgrave bailiff at the castle, Apel von Grusen.

In 1509, Landgrave Wilhelm II assigned the Landsburg and the judicial district to his illegitimate half-brother Wilhelm (Freiherr von der Landsburg). In 1544 Wilhelm von der Landsburg gave Landgrave Philipp I back the castle and rule of Lansburg. Thereafter, from 1548 at the latest, the court was incorporated into the existing Ziegenhain office . The jurisdiction of the court is likely to have included the high and lower jurisdiction .

The castle began to fall apart in the 16th century.

Current condition

Dismantling wall in the Landsburg quarry (2016)

In 1968, when the local basalt mining was expanded, the last remaining remains were removed.

Basalt steles from the Landsburg quarry were used by Joseph Beuys from 1982 , especially for his work 7000 oaks .

literature

  • Eduard Brauns: Landsburg , in: Schwälmer Jahrbuch 1976 , Ziegenhain, pp. 109–112.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Hessen I: Administrative districts of Gießen and Kassel , p. 6 f.
  • Rolf Gensen: Landsburg , in: Georg Bachmann (ed.): Der Schwalm-Eder-Kreis , State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Theiss, Stuttgart, 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0369-5 , pp. 168–174.
  • Historical local dictionary of the state of Hesse 5, Ziegenhain , pp. 104-106.
  • 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. 159.
  • Georg Landau: Landsburg , pp. 395-399
  • Heinrich Pitz: Ring walls and ramparts at the Schwalmpforte . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. New episode . Volume 72, 1961, pp. 33-41.
  • Fritz Adolf Brauer: Die Grafschaft Ziegenhain, 1934, chapter "The court for the Landsburg", pp. 63–64.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sentence after Rhea Thönges-Stringaris: "Something healthy next to the tree" The stones of the 7000 oaks , in: Foundation 7000 oaks (ed.): 30 years Joseph Beuys 7000 oaks , Cologne, p. 70