Hünselburg

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Hünselburg
View from the south of the Urwaldsteig Edersee hiking trail

View from the south of the Urwaldsteig Edersee hiking trail

Creation time : Late Latene period
Castle type : Höhenburg, Spornlage, Wallburg
Conservation status: Wall and moat remains
Standing position : rural refuge
Place: Nieder-Werbe and Asel
Geographical location 51 ° 10 '52 "  N , 8 ° 58' 10"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '52 "  N , 8 ° 58' 10"  E
Height: 376  m above sea level NHN
Hünselburg (Hesse)
Hünselburg

The Hünselburg near Nieder-Werbe in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg ( Germany ) is the castle stables of a hilltop castle , of which wall and moat remains are still present and which is designated as a cultural monument .

Geographical location

The former Hünselburg is located in the basement forest counting natural space "Edersee trough" in the northern part of the nature park basement Edersee , 4.3 km southwest of the Waldecker neighborhood Nieder-Werbe and 2.4 km southeast of the Vöhler community part Asel , in which both districts partially located , and 2.8 km (as the crow flies ) south-south-west of the Vöhler district of Basdorf . It is located on and around the summit of the Lindenberg ( 376  m above sea  level ; also indicated as 368  m height), a narrow, cliff-rich mountain spur , steeply sloping to the west and east , which when the water level is high enough to the west, south and east of the Edersee is washed around. With full back this summit situation arises between the Eder - river kilometers 62.5 in the west and 60.0 in the east about 131 meters above the water surface ( 244.97  m ).

History and layout

The multi-part complex, of which only the remains of walls and ditches remain, was a Celtic refuge from the early La Tène period , as found in broken glass and broken glass testify. Two strong walls, noticeably far apart, about 500 m apart, sealed off the mountain spur to the north.

About 6.2 km (as the crow flies) to the west-northwest near Herzhausen are the remains of the Höckelsburg , probably also a Celtic complex, the formation of which is, however, partly dated to the Iron Age .

Hünselburg nature reserve

The southern parts of the project into the Edersee headland of Lindesbergs are since 1977 as 40 or 41.7  hectares large nature reserve Hünselburg ( CDDA reported -No. 81962). The original reason for the expulsion was a (now abandoned) gray heron colony. Today the focus is on the nationally significant near-natural forest and process protection.

hike

A section of the Urwaldsteig Edersee circular hiking trail (length 68 km) leads around the spur of the Lindenberg along the north bank of the Edersee , from which the branch paths rise to the castle site.

gallery

  • Ascent to the Hünselburg from the south

  • On the ascent to the Hünselburg from the south with the Edersee in the background

  • At the Hünselburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b Hünselburg, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of December 14, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 14, 2012 .
  3. ^ Ordinance on the nature reserve "Am Rauhensee bei Steinheim" of August 29, 1977 . In: Higher nature conservation authority (ed.): State gazette for the state of Hesse. 1977 No. 38 , p. 1862 , point 1239 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Hünselburg nature reserve at NABU

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