Mittelhof Gilsa

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Mittelhof Gilsa
Mittelhof Gilsa.jpg
Creation time : Mid 15th century
Castle type : former moated castle
Conservation status: destroyed, rebuilt as an estate
Standing position : Lower Hessian nobility
Place: Neuental - Gilsa
Geographical location 51 ° 0 '52.6 "  N , 9 ° 11' 31.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '52.6 "  N , 9 ° 11' 31.9"  E
Height: 210  m above sea level NN
Mittelhof Gilsa (Hesse)
Mittelhof Gilsa

The Mittelhof Gilsa is a former moated castle in Gilsa , in the municipality of Neuental in northern Hesse Schwalm-Eder-Kreis .

The construction

Coat of arms of those from and to Gilsa

The complex is located immediately north of the patronage church on the northern edge of the village and was the ancestral seat of the noble family von und zu Gilsa , which in the 16th century divided into two branches, "Gilsa-Oberhof" and "Gilsa-Unterhof", and then the two neighboring Hofsitze Oberhof and Unterhof built.

The middle courtyard is the oldest building in town. The castle was built around the middle of the 15th century as a closed, almost square complex as a low castle, with four round corner towers and a drawbridge over the surrounding moat .

The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War (1635). Then the buildings were rebuilt on the old foundations as a manor. The moat was drained in 1730; the drawbridge was replaced by a solid roadway , and a gate passage was created through the southern wing . Two half-timbered wings were later demolished. Today only the massive south wing with the gate entrance, the foundations of the southwest corner tower and the wing adjoining to the east with its half-timbered upper floor are preserved.

Coat of arms stones

Above the archway there is a late Gothic alliance coat of arms (by Gilsa / von Schaufuss), and inside the courtyard are two beautiful coat of arms stones from 1684 by Philipp Leo von und zu Gilsa and his wife Ursula Anna née. from Oppen . The so-called " duck stones" on the east side are reminiscent of the once numerous ducks that used to breed in nesting holes here.

Todays use

The branch of those of Gilsa, who originally lived in the Mittelhof, died out in the male line in 1898. In the course of the 20th century, the property was threatened with gradual decline. Around 1980, the Mittelhof was bought by a small community of craftsmen who restored the building from scratch with a lot of their own work and with a sense of the historical structure. The State Monument Protection Prize was awarded for this work .

The middle courtyard is inhabited and not open to the public.

literature

  • Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten. Local history pocket book for the Fritzlar-Homberg district. A. Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen, 1971, p. 138

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