Nassburg

Nassburg
Creation time :	after 1383
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Nidderau - Heroes Mountains
Geographical location	50 ° 14 '19.5 "  N , 8 ° 52' 14.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '19.5 "  N , 8 ° 52' 14.4"  E
Height:	117  m above sea level NHN

The Nassburg is a lost moated castle in Heldenbergen , a district of Nidderau in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

history

The founding of the complex can be documented precisely in 1383. This year Gottfried von Stockheim , the owner of the neighboring Heldenbergener Oberburg , received a meadow below the Oberburg as a Hanau fiefdom with permission to build a castle there. Possibly the upper castle had become too small for several branches of the Stockheim family . Hanau reserved the right to open .

Both castles remained jointly owned by the Stockheimers for a long time. After disputes over inheritance, the castle was divided into two halves by an imperial judgment in 1559, which was owned by the von Mauchenheim, called von Bechtolsheim, and the Riedesel von Bellersheim in 1582 . Around 1702 the Nassburg was expanded and rebuilt, in 1772 or 1774 it was completely sold to the Burggrafschaft Friedberg and passed on to the barons of Syberg . At that time, however, there was probably only a stone building that was described as derelict and was surrounded by a moat .

The remains of the facility were sold to private individuals in 1819. An area on the Kellerberg belonging to the castle has been used as a Jewish cemetery since 1818 . In the period that followed, the last buildings were demolished. Today only the street names "An der Naßburg" and "Burggasse" remind of the former castle.

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 327f.

Web links

• Nassburg, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of January 15, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 23, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Reimer : Hessisches Urkundenbuch. Section 2, document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Vol. 4, 1376-1400. Publications from the Royal Prussian State Archives, Hirzel, Leipzig 1897, pp. 278–280, no. 321.