Hattenbachsch castle seat

Hattenbachsch castle seat
Alternative name (s):	Castle seat of the von Romrod, Helmschwerdtsche Castle
Creation time :	1569
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Local nobility
Place:	Schrecksbach
Geographical location	50 ° 50 '1 "  N , 9 ° 17' 5.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '1 "  N , 9 ° 17' 5.3"  E

The Hattenbachsche castle seat , and Castle seat of Romrod and Helmschwerdtsche castle is called an Outbound lowland castle in southwestern Schrecksbach (today Alsfelder Street) in North Hesse Schwalm-Eder-Kreis .

Location and facility

The Hattenbach castle seat was in the southwest of the village of Schrecksbach on today's Alsfelder Straße. According to a floor plan in the Marburg State Archives from 1750, the castle was a square stone building with a stair tower at the rear, which was located in the middle of an estate. The farm buildings were surrounded by a wall and closed off with a gate from the street.

In 1750 the castle seat comprised 247 Kassel arable land, approx. 48 meadows, approx. 8 acres of gardens and approx. 250 acres of forest. In 1885 the manor district comprised 133 hectares, including 56 hectares of arable land, 13 hectares of meadows and 62 hectares of wood. The building was demolished in 1823.

Residents

The castle seat founded in 1569 by the noble family of von Hattenbach is likely to be identical to the castle seat of von Romrod mentioned in 1750 and the later Helmschwerdt castle . The castle seat was still inhabited by at least two von Hattenbach families: first by Hans Ludwig von Hattenbach, who married Emerentia von Wildungen in 1597 , and then by his son Lorentz von Hattenbach. His daughter Juliana Anastasia von Hattenbach married Lucas Wilhelm von Romrod in 1634, after which the castle seat was inhabited by the von Romrod family for the next 200 years. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Schrecksbach branch of the von Romrod family died out in the male line, so that the castle seat fell back to the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel as a settled fiefdom . From 1807 to 1813, Jérôme Bonaparte , Napoleon's brother , ruled the Kingdom of Westphalia in Kassel . After the end of French rule, the Elector Wilhelm I returned to Kassel and rewarded all those who had remained loyal to him during this time. This also included his adjutant general Burghard Wilhelm Ruppel, to whom he conferred the title of nobility "von Helmschwerdt" and who gave the manors Holzheim and Schrecksbach. Under Burghard Wilhelm von Helmschwerdt, the dilapidated castle seat was finally demolished, the farmyard enlarged and a new tenant house built.

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. 44f.
• Heinz Metz: The castle seat "on the road" from Hattenbach, from Romrod, from Helmschwerdt . In: Yearbook Schwalm-Eder-Kreis 1984 , Homberg / Efze 1984, pp. 97-99.
• Heinz Metz: The castle seats in Schrecksbach: the von Baumbach castle seat in the Wassergasse; the castle seat d. Lords of Schwertzell ; the castle seat "an d. Strasse", von Hattenbach, von Romrod, von Helmschwerdt . Knüll-Gebirgsbote: magazine for hiking, local history and folklore, nature conservation (bulletin of the Knüllgebirgsverein eV 1884), ed. vom Knüllgebirgsverein, Niederaula 1991, Issues 2, 3 and 4, pp. 38, 68–69 and 103–104.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Metz: The castle seat "on the street" of Hattenbach, Romrod, Helmstedt. In: Yearbook Schwalm-Eder-Kreis 1984. Homberg / Efze 1984, p. 97.
2. ^ Hattenbachsch castle seat Schrecksbach, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of May 21, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 28, 2012 .  
3. ^ Heinz Metz: The castle seat "on the road" from Hattenbach, from Romrod, from Helmschwerdt. In: Yearbook Schwalm-Eder-Kreis 1984 , Homberg / Efze 1984, pp. 97-98.