Giesel hunting lodge

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Giesel moated castle
View from Schlossstrasse over the overgrown moat (in the foreground) with scaffolding (2018)

View from Schlossstrasse over the overgrown moat (in the foreground) with scaffolding (2018)

Alternative name (s): Giesel moated castle
Creation time : around 920, 1144 "probably as a stone house?" Erected, renewed in 1340 as "New Castle" and in 1717 as "today's palace" .
Castle type : Niederungsburg , Talaue
Conservation status: habitable
Standing position : Ministeriale / Burgmannen
Construction: Cuboid, quarry stone
Place: Giesel
Geographical location 50 ° 30 '5.6 "  N , 9 ° 34' 18.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '5.6 "  N , 9 ° 34' 18.4"  E
Giesel Hunting Lodge (Hesse)
Giesel hunting lodge
View from Schlossstrasse over the overgrown moat (in the foreground (2017))

The Giesel hunting lodge is a former prince abbot's castle and later a hunting lodge of the prince abbots and prince-bishops of Fulda . With the secularization of 1803 it became a forestry office and is now privately owned . It is located at Schlossstrasse 2 in the Giesel district of the same name in the Neuhof community in the Fulda district in Hesse .

location

The former hunting lodge is located a little more than eight kilometers southwest of Fulda on the southeastern outskirts of Giesel near the L3206 towards Neuhof.

history

The coat of arms of Konstantin von Buttlar above the castle portal
The current entrance portal

A water castle in the village of Gysela is said to have been mentioned as early as 920 , although it is unclear whether this corresponds to the current location.

“Translated document content: The forest castle, which is almost in the wilderness, in which the forester lives, was built by the cellar master of the monastery (Fulda ), Dudo, in 1144 and handed over to his brother; it also fell into disrepair, but was rebuilt from scratch by the abbot Heinrich von Hohenberg in 1340 and surrounded by moats; Prince Constantin von Buttlar repaired the same thing in 1717. "

The desert place was named 1140 to 1148 and rebuilt by the Fulda cellar master. Presumably a stone house was built at the castle site . The "c astrum Gysela " is mentioned in the description of Landau in 1336 . The Fulda prince abbot Heinrich VI. von Hohenberg (1315-1353) had the New Castle built around 1340 . The castle was a low castle , which was created by pouring a dam to hold the water flowing past the Giesel . The stream flows from east to north directly past the site. The foundations and walls still visible today suggest a moated castle . Further investigations are not known.

The castle was occupied by castle men from the area. On April 9, 1376, Gottfried (Gocze) von Sassen confirmed his obligation as a castle man at Giesel Castle (Gysela) and the provision of a castle loan from a farm in the village of Giesel with fields and meadows listed in detail by Konrad [von Hanau] , Abbot of Fulda . On January 6, 1357, Emperor Karl IV. Heinrich VII. Von Kranlucken , Abbot of Fulda, Chancellor of Empress Anna , and his successors in Giesel allowed to take a toll of one shilling of old Heller from each transport or draft horse , except for his or her his imperial successor revocation. In 1376 Gottfried von Sassen is mentioned in a document as a castle man at Giesel Castle (Gysela). The castle was partially mortgaged in the 14th and 15th centuries, for example in 1400 to Clas von Leibolz . In 1443 the castle was mentioned again in a letter of arbitration dated February 9, “in the matter of castle, village and forest (Zundernhart) in Giesel”. The castle is mentioned in 1450. The Fulda Abbot Reinhard von Weilnau decreed in 1469 that he "for life" among other things "the castle Gieselmann (Gisela)" should be entitled. In 1472, the chapter of the Imperial Abbey of Fulda elected the coadjutor Henneberg as Johann II. Count von Henneberg-Schleusingen as Prince Abbot of Fulda. As a prudent and splendid abbot , he was able to redeem pledged properties despite the oppressive lack of money. Former Abbot Reinhard von Weilnau died in Thulba in 1476 at the age of 55 and was buried in Fulda.

Since 1523 there were first reformatory efforts in the bishopric . Due to the higher and higher tax demands of the authorities at the time, the farmers in the Fuldaer Land rose together with the citizens of the city of Fulda and took part in the German Peasants' War . Abbot Johann III. von Henneberg-Schleusingen tried to push back the Reformation movements in the area of ​​the monastery. He was still a coadjutor in 1524/25 with the uprising of the farmers living in the bishopric with revolting farmers from Swabia and Franconia, who had advanced to Fulda during the Peasants' War and whose devastation of many churches and the Fulda monasteries of Neuenberg , Johannesberg , Petersberg and Frauenberg , faced.

A few years later on January 28, 1550: After the death of Abbot Philipp Schenk zu Schweinsberg , the monastery chapter elected Wolfgang Dietrich von Eusigheim (1550–1558) to succeed him as prince abbot . The chapter gave the new abbot the fuldan-related provosts Johannesberg , Petersberg and Frauenberg as well as "Amt und Schloss Giesel" against his assumption of the peasant war debts of the monastery and the debts of the previous abbot .

It is likely to have gradually deteriorated afterwards. It is believed that the castle was finally destroyed by the Thirty Years' War at the latest .

New building

Today's palace was built on the foundation walls of the castle in 1717 by the Fulda abbot Konstantin von Buttlar (1714–1726). Bartholomäus (Barthell) Wiegant, landlord from Giesel (Döpffengiesell), announced on May 5, 1723 for himself, his wife and his heirs that he had Konstantin [von Buttlar] , Abbot of Fulda, his field on the Giesel [tributary of the Fulda] for whose castle (house) in Giesel permanently sold.

Until secularization in 1803, it was used as a hunting lodge by the Fulda prince abbots .

Plant and building

The castle building is a simple rectangular system with five window axes . The long side of the existing building (17.15 m × 10.62 m) faces northwest and has a high hipped roof . The original roof structure with its hewn oak beams up to 30 cm thick has been preserved. The uprights of the roof truss are designed horizontally, so the roof truss does not need any intermediate posts. The wall thickness of the building is about 1.20 m.

The coat of arms of Konstantin von Buttlar with the year 1717 is located above the entrance portal .

Moat

The former moat of the hunting lodge can still be recognized from Schloßstraße with approx. 1/3. 2/3 of the northeastern trench system was filled with excavated earth in the 1960s with the piping of the " Giesel " and used as a meadow.

Modern times

Seal of the royal forest ranger in Giesel between 1850 and 1923

With the secularization through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803, the Hochstift Fulda was dissolved. With the dissolution of the possessions of were Fulda monastery in "scale Hart" and the castle Gieselmann expropriated and the Electorate of Hesse from around 1815/1820 as forest service building for the management of large " Forst good Gieselmann known as" " Gieseler forest ", as forester with his used by numerous forest rangers.

With changes in the forest administration , the " Oberförsterei Giesel" was dissolved at the beginning of the 1960s.

Newer uses

Southeast view (2018/19)

The property and building stock were acquired in 1964 by the formerly independent municipality of Giesel. In the land consolidation process from 1960, the castle moat area was partially backfilled. In 1974 part of the property with the castle area was sold by the community in private ownership . The former forest barn from 1864 remained with the community.

With the sales proceeds a. the financing of the new construction of the water supply in the local area, the construction of a pumping station at the Siebertsmühle and a new elevated water tank at the hiking car park on the "Sieberzheiligen".

In the following years the castle building was used privately and the forest barn on the property was used by Giesel associations. During the roof renovation in 1998, the roof structure received three dormers and a new tiled roof on each of the two gable sides and three long sides of the building . After 2000, further changes of ownership took place. It was gutted by the previous owner in accordance with the preservation of historical monuments and is in need of renovation. At the moment the facility is uninhabited and externally overgrown. The slow renovation work that began in 2017/18 is currently dormant.

Former forest barn from 1864 near the castle - southwest view (2015)

The property also has an outbuilding (former forest barn from 1864).

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites . 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 210 f .
  • Konrad Lübeck : Old localities of the district of Fulda (=  old localities of the Fuldaer Land . Volume 2 ). Fuldaer Actiendruckerei, Fulda 1934.
  • Michael Mott : Once a hunting lodge, before that a water castle. Giesel Castle: A building with an eventful history . In: Fulda newspaper . November 30, 1995, p. 13 (Series: THINK times!).
  • Erwin Sturm : Altkreis Fulda (=  The architectural and art monuments of the Fulda region . Volume 1 ). 2nd Edition. Parzeller, Fulda 1989, ISBN 3-7900-0189-9 .
  • The Grand Duchy, the district, the district court of Fulda, and the Neuhof office, described topographically and antiquarian . In: Joseph Schneider (Hrsg.): Buchonia - magazine for patriotic history, ancient history, geography, statistics and topography . Fourth volume, second issue. Müller, Fulda 1829, p. 34 ( online  in the German Digital Library [accessed on September 21, 2015] Reader Scan 234).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gieseler Castle. Retrieved on September 1, 2015 (private website, no imprint!).
  2. ↑ a b Knappe, p. 211
  3. ↑ HStAM inventory document 75 No. 909; https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/detailAction.action;jsessionid=D69D53442FED5A831F36D86552DC9049?detailid=v4476665
  4. ↑ http://lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/rsrec/sn/bio/register/person/entry/fulda,+dekan+wolfgang+dietrich+von+eusigheim
  5. ↑ Entry on Jagdschloss Giesel in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 21, 2015.