Hollende Castle

Hollende Castle
Hollende Castle, Castle Hill
Alternative name (s):	Hohenlinden
Creation time :	around 1008
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Weather -Warzenbach
Geographical location	50 ° 54 '4.1 "  N , 8 ° 36' 55.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '4.1 "  N , 8 ° 36' 55.7"  E

Ruins of the tower of Hollende Castle

Castle hill of Hollende Castle in summer

The castle Hollende even Hohenlinden called, is the ruins of a medieval hilltop castle between Warts Bach and Treisbach , the districts of the weather north of Marburg in Hesse . It was sometimes referred to as Hohenlinden Castle.

history

The castle was built before the Count Giso was first mentioned and was part of an imperial estate. The Gisonens were probably first official or titular counts without allodial ownership , who, like a number of other noble free , were given territorial administration by the Ottonian and Salian emperors after the Conradines in Hesse died out . The Gisonen were initially notarized in particular as bailiffs of the canon monastery Wetter . They had their headquarters on the Hollende, which was given to them as an imperial fief. In 1008 the first Count Giso in Lahngau was mentioned. Giso I was temporarily also Count von Maden in Hessengau and as such had his seat on the Obernburg in Gudensberg in Northern Hesse .

In the summer of 1073 Giso II found his death on Hollende. He had played an inglorious role in a plot against the Duke of Bavaria, Otto von Northeim , by having a false witness, Egeno von Konradsburg , accuse Otto of a planned murder of King Henry IV . Otto was then given imperial ban by Heinrich , deposed as duke and expropriated from his Saxon property. Otto did not forget, and when he rebelled against Heinrich for the second time in 1073, his followers invaded Hesse, conquered Hollende Castle and killed Giso and his co-conspirator Adalbert von Schauenburg .

In 1118, during the dispute between Emperor Henry V and Archbishop Adalbert I of Mainz , carried Giso IV. Those who had hitherto imperial castle Hollende, the Archbishop to feudal and received them from Mainz in fee back. After Giso's death in 1122 it finally fell to Kurmainz as a settled fief. From 1141 to 1170 the castle was owned as a Mainz fiefdom by Count Poppo I von Reichenbach († 1156) and then by his nephew Poppo II († 1170).

In 1247, after the death of Heinrich Raspe IV , the last Landgrave of Thuringia from the Ludowinger family , there were disputes between Sophie von Brabant and the Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried III. von Eppstein for the recognition of Sophie's inheritance claims for her underage son Heinrich on the landgrave's property in Hesse. With Heinrich Raspe's death, many of these lands threatened to fall to Mainz. Sophie demanded these goods and had all the castles besieged and destroyed whose masters would not pay homage to her. In the following months the castles Hollende and probably also Weißenstein (approx. 1 km north of Wehrda ) as well as in 1247 and 1293 the Hohenfels Castle were razed to the ground by Sophie's troops.

investment

Hollende Castle had a rounded, rectangular wall 2 m thick and covered an area of ​​28 m × 22 m. Inside was a 10 m × 7.5 m tower with a wall thickness of 2.5 m.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Ernst Christian Schmidt: History of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. First volume, Heyer, Gießen 1818, pp. 250-252.
2. ↑ Norbert Buthmann, Norbert Goßler, Alex Posluschny, Helmut Valand, Benno Zickgraf: Modern Prospection Methods in Castle Research - Archaeological Investigations on the Medieval Castle of Lahntal-Brungershausen / Hessen . In: Castles and Palaces . 38, issue 1998 II. Braubach / Rhein 1998, p. 80-87 .

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. 251.
• Christa Meiborg: The Hollende in Wetter (Hessen) -Warzenbach. Leaflet to the castle of Count Giso in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (= Archaeological Monuments in Hesse. Issue 157) State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-89822-157-1 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Hollende (Wetter)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hollende Castle on Burgenwelt.org