Kemenate Helmershausen

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The Helmershausen Kemenate , also known as Kohlhausen Castle , was part of a fortified manor complex with a residential palace on the northeastern outskirts of the village of Helmershausen , today the main town of the Rhönblick community in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia .

location

The names of the alleys Kohlhausen and Vor der Kohlhause on the northern edge of today's location remind of the former location of the manor complex, to the west of the presumable intersection of which the property was probably located. According to the municipality, the property is located on today's parcels 785 and 784 and was thus about 410 m above sea level. NHN .

history

1372 was a Apel of Kohlhausen with the material through the Henneberger invested . 1421 Martin von Kohlhausen is named as a fiefdom owner. The Helmershausen estate, which belongs to the county of Henneberg-Römhild , was again issued as a fief to the Lords of Kohlhausen in 1536 . A Christoph von Kohlhausen held it around 1536 as a henbergisch-romanhilder fief. After the Kohlhausen family died out in 1566 with the death of Christoph, the lands came to other Henneberg nobles . The next owner was Veit von Heldritt , who later became a bailiff in Lichtenberg and died on March 5, 1607. The fief went to the two sons-in-law LB von Wangenheim and AV von Zweiffel . In 1630 a Jakob Schott was named, in 1673 Kurt Auerochs, then his son-in-law Levitt von Heldritt. A certain lieutenant Levin Dietz owned the property until 1721, after which the court administrator Stang owned it . His widow sold the property in 1740 or 1743 to the gentlemen von Wegmar (Wechmar) , but they were unable to take possession of it because of a dispute with the municipality of Helmershausen, which had the right of first refusal . After a settlement in 1765, the site was sold to the residents. Hereditary interest and one sixth of the lower hunt remained with the nobility. The fortification moat was filled in towards the end of the 19th century and gardens were created. Ruins (rudera) are still mentioned in 1804.

The story is named differently in the monument books. It is assumed here that the palace complex has probably served as a quarry since the 16th century . The successor owners dispensed with the presumably dilapidated castle building and built their own mansions within the fortified location , which are listed in the local history as the Rothe Castle of the Lords of Wildungen, the Black Castle of the Lords of Erffa built in 1575 , the Yellow Castle of the Lords of Zweiffel and the Hennebergische Freihof are mentioned. None of the 20 noble families from the Meininger Unterland named in the ownership sequence were able to maintain their possessions for a long time; most of the Helmershausen ownership was sold on as a pledge or a bride gift.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b website Die Schlösser zu Helmershausen and refers to the historical booklets of: CE Bach: Im Tullifeld. From the northern Vorrhön (a historical and scenic survey in closer home) , 4 booklets, Kaltennordheim 1897–1908, reprint Sonheim vd Rhön 1985.
  2. ^ Hermann Helmbold: History of the place Helmershausen and Schloss Kohlhausen , In: Lehfeldt, Paul / Voss, Georg (ed.): Building and art monuments of Thuringia. Booklet XXXVII. Jena 1911, pp. 197-205

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 54.82 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 19.95"  E