Good Keudelstein

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Gut Keudelstein under the Keudelskuppe

The Good Keudelstein even lock Keudelstein called, is a deserted village in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia .

location

The former Keudelstein estate is located below the Keudelskuppe (485 m) in the south of Eichsfeld , about two kilometers east- south -east of the village of Döringsdorf, right on the Thuringian- Hessian border. Other neighboring towns are the Unstrut-Hainich district belonging Places Lengenfeld unterm Stein in the east and Hildebrandshausen in the southeast, and the Hesse Wanfried in the south.

Kubstedt desert

The crest, disturbed by quarries , probably had a fortification ( Burg Plesse or Keudelstein) in prehistoric times . From Gottschalk III. von Plesse probably built a castle complex in the middle of the 13th century to secure the border with Hesse on behalf of Kurmainz . The above-ground castle complexes were probably made of wood, stone witnesses are no longer detectable today. In the area, however, trenches for a main castle and outer castle can still be seen.

The areas at the foot of these prehistoric defenses were certainly used to care for the people and pets sheltered there. The first medieval settlement probably took place after the castle was built. The origin of the name of Kubsdorf , mentioned in 1354 as Kywolsdorff , cannot be clarified. In the 13th century, however, two lords of Keudell zu Kubstedt are already mentioned (1227 Albertus and 1271 Reinhold). At some point this defensive post lost its importance and the estate was also mentioned as desolate around 1500.

History of the property

Manor house ("Castle") Keudelstein around 1905

From 1583 to 1669, the estate was built in stages on the remains of the Kubsdorf desert by Bernd Keudel as a forework . It developed into the ancestral home of the noble von Keudell family . Several owners managed the property under the turmoil of the times. In 1901 Alexander von Keudell from Eschwege bought the estate of his founding ancestors for 21,000 marks. In 1910 48 people lived on Gut Keudelstein. A neighboring forester's house also belonged to the estate.

1945 in implementing the Potsdam Agreement the land reform carried out on an area of 213 hectares and the entire inventory. Alexander von Keudell's heirs was expropriated. On June 2, 1948, part of the three-story mansion was demolished in order to obtain building material for new farmer positions. The ground floor and the cellar vault of the manor house remained. The state-owned Großtöpfer estate and the Hildebrandshausen agricultural production cooperative later cultivated all the land, including that of the new farmers and the residual goods. The remaining buildings of the property were used by the LPG. Since these buildings were located directly on the inner-German border , they should be removed. In 1978 the order was issued to completely demolish the property in order to prevent escapes from the GDR . 1990–2006 the agricultural cooperative Lengenfeld unterm Stein eG managed the farm and used the former estate.

today

Only remnants of cellar vaults can be found on the estate. Only two stone figures could be saved from demolition and are now standing at the Marienkirche in Heiligenstadt . Several hiking trails open up the area along the Green Belt . A citizen from Lengenfeld unterm Stein acquired the former estate with an area of ​​11,000 m² in 2007 and created a pond that will enrich the former estate as a biotope .

literature

  • Heuckeroth, Erwin: The Keudelstein manor in Eichsfeld / Thr. The story of a Mainz fief in the Thuringian-Hessian border area with connections to Schwebda. Dates and events from 1271 to 2007. Meinhard-Schwebda 2008, 142 pages
  • Thomas Wölker: Insights into the recent development of Altenstein, Greifenstein, Hessel and Keudelstein in the area of ​​the former inner-German border. In: Das Werraland 1992, Issue 4, pp. 81–86

Web links

Commons : Gut Keudelstein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces , Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 155
  2. ↑ Erhard Müller: The place names of the district of Heiligenstadt. Heilbad Heiligenstadt 1989, p. 28
  3. ↑ Eichsfeld Archive
  4. ↑ Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld 1945 to 1989 A documentation . Eichsfeld Verlag, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, 2006, page 73

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '32.1 "  N , 10 ° 11' 0.6"  E