Hunburg (Burgholz)

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Hunburg
Information sign at the facility

Information sign at the facility

Creation time : 700 to 800
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Ditches, walls
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Burgholz
Geographical location 50 ° 52 '28.7 "  N , 8 ° 56' 50.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '28.7 "  N , 8 ° 56' 50.9"  E
Height: 368  m above sea level NHN
Hunburg (Hesse)
Hunburg

The Hunburg is the ruin of a spur castle at 368  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur above the Wohra west of Burgholz a district of the small town of Kirchhain in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

The Hunburg was probably an early medieval border fortress built by the Carolingians in the 8th century . The timing has not yet been confirmed.

It was an irregular oval rampart in the shape of a shield in a spur layer with a length of about 200 meters and a width of about 100 meters. The complex was separated from the slope to the south by a neck ditch . To the southeast was a pincer gate in the mortar wall.

With the construction of the Rauschenberg Castle opposite by the Fulda Abbey after 1060 , the Hunburg lost its importance. The knight Johann von Riedesel received it in 1337 as a Fulda fief and it was probably still partially inhabited. It remained in the possession of the Fulda Abbey until 1401 and was then acquired by Hesse .

During excavations in 1936, remains of the surrounding walls were uncovered. Some depressions in the south of the complex indicate former cellar and building foundations from the 10th to 15th centuries.

Corresponding anomalies could be confirmed in geoelectric prospecting. Two later search cuts in September 2001 did not find any anthropogenic interference; the investigations revealed only a layer of sand on the adjacent banded sandstone. A further examination of the gate area showed that the gate cheeks were probably not made of stone, but a wooden construction.

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 , pp. 252-253.
  • Rolf Gensen: Christenberg, Burgwald and Amöneburg Basin in the Merovingian and Carolingian times . Vlg. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1975, in: Walter Schlesinger (Hrsg.): Althessen im Frankenreich . Pp. 121-172.

Web links

Commons : Hunburg (Burgholz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Hüser, Heiko Kräling, Andreas Nebe, Kirsten J. Stötzel: New investigations into the interior development of the Hunburg near Buchholz . In: hessenARCHÄOLOGIE 2001 , Preservation of Monuments of the State of Hessen (Ed.), Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1749-1 . P. 129 f.