Hundsburg (Hessenwald)
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 The Schwalmpforte with the Hundsburg (right); in the foreground the Gombether See and the former Borken power station |
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| height | 334 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Schwalm-Eder-Kreis , Hesse , Germany | |
| Mountains | Hessenwald | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 4 '18 " N , 9 ° 13' 48" E | |
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The Hundsburg is a 334 m high mountain in the eastern foothills of the Kellerwald , the natural area Hessenwald , between Kerstenhausen and Kleinenglis , both districts of Borken in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district . It forms the northern flank of the Schwalmpforte , where the Schwalm from the Löwensteiner Grund (natural area 341.7) enters the Schwalmaue (natural area 343.21). On the southern bank of the Schwalm, the Kuhberg, a northeastern branch of the Altenburg , forms the southern flank of the Schwalmpforte.
On the summit plateau of the mountain can be found in the northeast weak remains of former ring walls and trenches; these merge into a terrace in the northwest, which is only faint in the west, but still clearly visible in the south. Finds of ceramic shards from the Hallstatt period indicate that it was used as a pre-Christian refuge .
It is possible, but not proven, that the Lower Hessian noble family von Hund on the Hundsburg had their original ancestral seat. If this is the case, their castle complex would have been abandoned and derelict as early as the 12th century. The monastery Hardehausen bought in 1258 the "Forest dogs Burch" by Ludwig von Homberg, and in 1347 the brothers Heinrich, Hermann and Werner bequeathed by Lowenstein the year commemorating her father's Peter pin Fritzlar income from their possession in the area of the mountain Hundsburg ( "mons hundisborg ”). In both cases, only the mountain or the forest is mentioned, not a castle. Landau therefore doubted that a castle existed there and denied that the dogs had ever owned there. The remains of ditches are said to be parts of a former Landwehr that was still visible at the beginning of the 18th century , which once ran across the Schwalmpforte from the Kuhberg to the Hundsburg. However, some foundation walls are said to have been left on the mountain in 1778.
During the construction of the road from Fritzlar to Kerstenhausen 1803–1804, today part of Bundesstraße 3 , several barrows and burial urns were found below the Hundsburg .
Individual evidence
literature
- Werner Ide, From Adorf to Zwesten: Local history paperback for the Fritzlar-Homberg district , A. Bernecker, Melsungen, 1972 (p. 203)