Houses castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Hausen Castle | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, castle hill | |
| Place: | Mainhausen - Zellhausen | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 0 '19.7 " N , 9 ° 1' 7.9" E | |
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The Hausen Castle , more rarely called Schloss Hausen , is a former castle near Zellhausen , a district of the municipality of Mainhausen in the Offenbach district in Hesse .
history
Almost nothing is known about the history of the facility. A local legend reports that the residents, together with the residents of the neighboring Zellerhof or the desert of Zell, founded the new town of Zellhausen after both towns had burned down. The place Husen is mentioned for the first time in 1238, Zellhausen only in 1329. Hausen is later mentioned in a document, the feudal estates there were given to the Lords of Wasen by the Counts of Hanau .
Around 1400 7 acres of fields on Huserfelde, located on the Luychten, were given to the chapel in Zell. A document from 1405 describes several goods on the slosse (...) on the battlements (...) on the Huserpade by the village and in front of the stone village . In 1452 Peter von Wasen confessed that he had received from Count Philip the Elder, as guardian of Count Philip the Younger, as a castle loan for himself and his brother, among other things, 1 pound Gülte , half to Husen and half to Mainflingen and the goods to Husen . Heinrich von Wasen received the same fiefs, mentioned as early as 1452, from Philip III in 1506 . from Hanau-Lichtenberg . In 1600 Hans and Adolph von Wasen received the same from Count Johann Reinhard I. Only afterwards are there no more documents.
In 1829, smaller excavations took place, during which various foundations and a pavement were documented.
investment
The remains of the castle and settlement are located in an extensive forest area southeast of Zellhausen and north of the Seligenstädter triangle . The adjacent clearing, in which the settlement is suspected, is now occupied by the long-wave transmission antenna with two steel framework masts, which is part of the Mainflinger transmission systems . The clearing bears the field name Am Häuser Schloss .
The only visible remains of the building is the castle hill on the southern edge of the clearing, which is heavily overgrown and hardly accessible. On top of it was probably the only building built in stone or the tower of the tower hill castle (Motte).
literature
- 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. 410.
- Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book. Volume 1: Starkenburg. Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse, Darmstadt 1937, p. 305.
- Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The devastation in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Volume 2: Province of Starkenburg. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862, pp. 209–211 , (reprint with a supplementary appendix by Friedrich Knöpp. M. Sehend, Wiesbaden 1969).
Web links
- Hausen Castle, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board from Geopark Bergstrasse-Odenwald on site
- ^ Wilhelm Müller: Hessian book of place names. Volume 1. Darmstadt 1937, p. 305.
- ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner: The desolations in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Volume 2. Wiesbaden, 1854, p. 210 f.
