List of castles and palaces in the Eichsfeld

The list of castles and palaces in the Eichsfeld is a directory of historical places such as castles , palaces , castle stables and mansions in the area of ​​the historical Eichsfeld . Ornamental and replicas that were never used as residential buildings or for defense are not listed .

Castles and Palaces

The most important castles and palaces are shown in the list. A differentiation between small castle complexes on the one hand and fortified knight or manor houses on the other hand is not always clear. (HWB = frequently changing owners)

Surname	Place / location	Type	Time of origin	owner	State of preservation use	image
Old castle	Bornhagen	Siege castle?			Ramparts, trenches
Old castle	Reifenstein	Spurburg	about 10th century	local aristocratic family ( counts of equals )	Ramparts, trenches
Small old castle	Kleinbartloff	Hilltop castle	12th Century	Counts of equals	small residues
Old castle	Flinsberg	Spurburg			Ramparts, trenches
Curtis Bernshausen	Bernshausen is an island-like location on Lake Seeburg	Refuge castle royal palace	about 8th century	Immedinger	archaeological security
Bernshausen Castle	Bernshausen Wallhof	moth	around 13th century	Counts of Lauterberg Knights of Bernshausen	archaeological security
Birkenstein Castle	Effects	Spurburg	13th Century	Count of Gleichenstein Kurmainz	Moat
Castle Stein / Bischofstein	Lengenfeld under the stone	Spurburg	11th century	Count of Northeim Kurmainz	Wall remnants, trenches
Bischofstein Castle	Lengenfeld under the stone	lock	1727	Kurmainz HWB	Boarding school, senior facility
Bodenstein Castle	Leinefelde-Worbis	Spurburg	probably 11th century	Lords of Bodenstein Welfen Counts of Hohnstein Lords of Wintzingerode	Family vacation spot
Deuna moated castle	Deuna	Moated castle	13th Century	Lords of Hagen Seniore Residenz Wasserburg	Retirement home
Gieboldehausen Castle	Gieboldehausen	Moated castle	Probably damaged in the 10th century in 1291 and rebuilt in the Thirty Years' War	Quedlinburg Abbey? Braunschweig-Grubenhagen Kurmainz from 1334	after 1806 the remains of the castle were demolished and in 1854 the current district court building was built
Gieboldehausen Castle	Gieboldehausen	Castle-like mansion	1520 (house on the wall)	Lords of Minnigerode municipality Gieboldehausen	built on older wall remains (moated castle with square tower) outbuildings demolished in 1970 manor house completely preserved registry office
Gleichenstein Castle	Waxed	Spurburg	12th century probably predecessor castle Velseck	Count of Gleichenstein Kurmainz HWB
Greifenstein castle ruins	Geismar	Hilltop castle	14th Century	unknown builder Kurmainz	Ruins
Hanstein castle ruins	Bornhagen	Hilltop castle	mentioned before 1070 rebuilt from 1308	Counts of Northeim Kurmainz Lords of Hanstein	Ruin events
Harburg	Latitude	Hilltop castle	around 1073	Counts of Stade as a fiefdom to the Counts of Gleichen and Landgraves of Thuringia Kurmainz	Ruins
Lindau moated castle	Lindau	Moated castle	12th Century	Count Werner von Lindau	nothing suspected location
New Lindau Castle	Lindau	Niederungsburg	1322	Lords of Plesse, Hardenberg, Braunschweig Kurmainz August Grewe	Mushaus
Bower Lindewerra	Lindewerra	Bower		Fulda Monastery in 1434 enfeoffed with Lords von Hanstein	Sandstone building
Mainz Castle	Heilbad Heiligenstadt	lock	1736-1738	Mainz Elector District of Eichsfeld	Eichsfeld District Office
Martinfeld Castle	Martinfeld	Castle-like mansion	1611	Herren Bodungen Schloss Martinfeld eV	youth hostel
Rusteberg castle ruins	Marth	Hilltop castle	before 1123	Kurmainz	Ruins
Rusteberg Castle	Marth	lock	1750	Kurmainz HWB	clinic
Scharfenstein Castle	Beuren ( Leinefelde-Worbis )	Spurburg	before 1209	Count of Gleichenstein Kurmainz City of Leinefelde-Worbis	Events
Volkerode castle complex	Volkerode	Kemenate , knight seat	12th Century	Knight of Volkerode Kurmainz Municipality of Volkerode	Residential tower and mansion
Westernhagen Castle	Berlingerode	Moated castle?	12th Century	Lords of Westernhagen	Wall and moat
Worbis Castle	Worbis	Moated castle	before 1284	Lords of Worbis Wettiner Kurmainz	1525 destroyed and demolished in 1575 and rebuilt as an official house foundation remains Rathaus

Lost and suspected castles

Lost castles are listed here, of which little information is available and some of which are no longer relics. In the case of individual castle names, it is not proven whether it was a fortified structure. Pre- or early medieval castles and ramparts and other fortifications are also mentioned here.

• Bodenstein: Mühlhausen Castle (Wallburg)
• Beuren : Castle (by the current customs tower)
• Beuren: Beisenburg
• Beberstedt: Manor, Brandenburg?
• Beinrode: Castle on your head
• Bickenriede: High praise
• Bickenriede: nameless ramparts in Wilhelmswald
• Brehme: Schwedenschanze
• Brehme: Wildungen Castle
• Breitenworbis: Wallburg Klei
• Breitenworbis: small castle complex near Hugenworbis
• Desingerode: Castle
• Dingelstädt: Kirchberg
• Desingerode: Castle
• Döringsdorf: Keudelsburg (Plesse)
• Ershausen: Kemenate
• Laziness: Spindlesburg
• Geismar: Hülfensberg (early history, everything disappeared)
• Haynrode: Matzenburg (Wallburg)
• Heiligenstadt: Wallburg on the Elisabethhöhe (early medieval)
• Heiligenstadt: Old Castle (not occupied)
• Heiligenstadt: Königspfalz (proven by excavations)
• Hundeshagen: Osterhagen (destroyed in 1525)
• Küllstedt: Wallhof or Tastunger Hof
• Martinfeld : Kemenate
• Rhumspringe: Old Castle (Wallburg)
• Rohrberg: Schnellecke (early history)
• Rustenfelde: Kemenate (broken off in 1780)
• Rustenfelde: Gunzenburg
• Rüdigershagen: Upper Wall and Lower Wall (destroyed in 1525)
• Seeburg: castle on the Steinberg in question, water castle (destroyed in 1265)
• Sonnenstein : Urbenschanze
• Tastings: castle / palace
• Teistungen: Teistungenburg
• Thalwend: Winzenburg
• Volkerode: Goburg
• Wehnde: Round elk
• Werleshausen: Liebenberg (Fliehburg)
• Westhausen : Kemenate (destroyed in 1525)
• Wintzingerode: Count Ernstburg (early historical ramparts)
• Worbis: Castle near the former town mill

The following castles are mentioned, but their exact location is not known:

• Velsecke Castle (1246) (probably the predecessor of Gleichenstein Castle )
• David Castle (near Scharfenstein Castle, possibly on the head)

Manor houses and manors

In the Middle Ages, many villages were subordinate to small knight families or lower service nobility, who either had their own castle districts or administered the area on behalf of a feudal lord. With the abandonment of the old castles, separate manors and mansions were created, occasionally several in one place.

Below is a selection of knight or manor houses: (E = mostly preserved complex, R = ruins or remnants, V = disappeared):

• Adelsborn (V) in Kirchohmfeld
• Oberstein and Unterstein (V) near Arenshausen
• Besenhausen Manor (E)
• Hagenscher Gutshof (E) in Rüdigershagen
• Oberhof (E) and Unterhof (R) in Teistungen
• Karlshof (E) and Steinerhof (R) in Birkenfelde
• Oberhof and Unterhof (E) in Ershausen
• Goburg (R) near Volkerode
• Rumerode (V) near Birkenfelde
• Front courtyard (V) in Martinfeld
• Steinheuterode (R)
• Oberorschel (V)
• Vollenborn (E)
• Katharinenberg Manor (E)
• Gut Keudelstein (V) near Hildebrandshausen
• Gut Scharfloh (V) near Wendehausen
• Wehnde manor
• Werleshausen Manor (E)
• Oberhof (R) and Unterhof (V) in Wahlhausen
• Hüpstedt Manor (E)
• Neumühle (V) near Worbis

literature

• Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld. 1945 to 1989. A documentation. Eichsfeld-Verlag Heiligenstadt 2006
• A. Götze: The prehistoric antiquities of Thuringia. A. Stubens-Verlag Würzburg 1909
• Johannes Müller: The ramparts of the Eichsfeld. Verlag JABarth Leipzig 1940, special print from Mannus , magazine for German prehistory, vol. 32, issue 1/2
• Rolf Aulepp: The castles and old streets of the Dün. Eichsfelder Heimathefte, issue 1/1985 pages 65–74 and issue 2/1985 pages 144–151
• Elmar Golland: Castles and palaces [of the Eichsfeld]. Published by the Eichsfeld district, Office for Economic and Structural Development, Heiligenstadt o. J. (1996), 38 pages, numerous color illustrations and map sketches
• Josef Reinhold: Local nobility and mansions, markets and cities in Eichsfeld during the Middle Ages. Beuren as a case study for the application of manor house and centrality research. In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 11 (2003), pp. 73-100
• Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Mühlhausen district. Mulhouse (1972)
• Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966
• Paul Grimm: To the Landwehr of the upper Eichsfeld. Study on European prehistory and early history. (Festschrift H. Jankuhn) Neumünster 1968
• Michael Köhler: Castles, mansions and fortified prehistoric and early historical places in north-west Thuringia : Bodunger Contributions, Book 9, Großbodungen 2004
• W. Ohlmer: Lake and Castle. A first contribution to the castle history of the Seeburger See. In: Goldene Mark Duderstadt, Volume 6 (1955) and Volume 7 (1956)
• Eduard Fritze, Alfred Sonntag: The desert castle near Flinsberg. An inventory. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift 2014, issue 2, pages 41–46
• Werner Deich: The Goslaer Reichsvogtgeld. Staufer castle policy in Lower Saxony and on the Eichsfeld. In: Historische Studien Heft 425, Lübeck 1974

Web links

Commons : Castles and Palaces in Eichsfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Palaces and castles on the website "alleburgen.de" (Eichsfeld district and other districts)

Individual evidence

1. ^ K. Grothe: State of the archaeological research of the Curtis and Burg von Bernshausen on the Seeburger See. In: Goldene Mark 35 (1984), pages 71-92
2. ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. Göttingen (O. Hendel) 1903, page 480
3. ↑ In: HVE Eichsfeld castles and monasteries for the year 1184 mentioned
4. ↑ Whether this is a Count of Lindau an der Rhume is questionable, for 1158 and 1184 a Werner Count of Lindau is also mentioned by Ruppin in Brandenburg. In: Carl Friedrich Pauli: General Prussian State History. Volume 1, Hall 1761, page 589
5. ↑ Josef Keppler: Hanstein, Ludwigstein, Teufelskanzel and the Eichsfeldische Werraland. Mecke Duderstadt 2008, page 39
6. ^ F. Boegehold: The castle of Duderstadt. In: Goldene Mark 28 (1977), pages 1-9
7. ↑ Elmar Golland: The castrum David prope Scharfenstein - a lost castle on the Eichsfeld. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte (25) 1983, issue 1, pages 155ff.

See also

• List of castles and palaces in the Eichsfeld district