Kehrenbach Hunting Lodge

The former hunting lodge Kehrenbach is an abandoned castle in the Kehrenbach valley in the Stölzinger mountains . It was located in the district of Kehrenbach in the north Hessian town of Melsungen at the foot of the Schlossberg.

history

The place Kehrenbach was first mentioned in 1209 in a property register of the St. Petri Stift Fritzlar . In 1469/70, Landgrave Ludwig II of Hesse ordered the construction of a hunting lodge above Kehrenbach. The building stood on the Kehrenbach, a tributary of the Sälzerweg salt trade road . The Kehrenbach was dammed into a fish pond at this point, with the hunting lodge in the middle. Access was made possible via a drawbridge . The son of Heinrich the Iron , Otto the Schütz , appreciated the "noble woad" in the Stölzinger Mountains. At the end of the 16th century, Landgrave Wilhelm IV had repair work carried out. Landgrave Moritz the Scholar made hand drawings of the castle in 1628 and 1630, showing a building with a massive basement and half-timbered superstructure.

Presumably the castle was looted and destroyed in the Thirty Years War . After that, it gradually fell into disrepair. The pond was used as a fish pond until the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), when it slowly silted up. Today the residential development has overtaken the site and nothing reminds of the former castle.

literature

• Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . A. Bernecker, Melsungen 1971, p. 467.
• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3rd edition Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 81.

Web links

• Kehrenbach hunting lodge, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the article by Demandt in the "Zeitschrift für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde" 1936.
2. ↑ Kehrenbach. (No longer available online.) In: www.rechenbach.de. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 49 ″  E