Oberburg Driedorf

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Oberburg Driedorf
Remains of the upper castle in the center of Driedorf

Remains of the upper castle in the center of Driedorf

Creation time : around 1305
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : High nobility
Place: Driedorf
Geographical location 50 ° 38 '4.2 "  N , 8 ° 11' 1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '4.2 "  N , 8 ° 11' 1"  E
Height: 495  m above sea level NHN
Oberburg Driedorf (Hesse)
Oberburg Driedorf

The Oberburg Driedorf is the ruin of a castle in the Westerwald in the municipality of Driedorf in the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .

history

The first assumption is that the castle was built around 1305 when King Albrecht I ( Albrecht of Austria ) was granted city rights . Emich I , the second son of Otto I von Nassau , received after his death and the division of Nassau's Ottonian line among his three sons the Nassau part of the dominion Driedorf , Esterau with the manorial rights in the Hadamarer Mark , the Ottonian parts of Dausenau and Ems as well as free float and founded the older Nassau-Hadamar line . His residence was the Junkernschloss in Driedorf. The upper castle was built to secure the city ​​wall of Driedorf.

From a historical preservation point of view, however, it is sometimes assumed that the castle was built by Count Otto towards the end of the 13th century.

Emich's grandson Heinrich von Nassau-Hadamar died in 1368 . His brother-in-law, Count Ruprecht der Streitbare von Nassau zu Sonnenberg , from the Walram line of the House of Nassau , who was owned by Heinrich and Emichs III around 1362. Sister Anna († 1404) married, became guardian of Heinrich's brother Emich III. von Nassau-Hadamar , who was not considered fit for government. With his death (last mentioned in 1394), the older Nassau-Hadamar line became extinct . Ruprecht received help from Heinrich II of Hesse in taking possession of the inheritance, in which he moved in Driedorf as an allegedly settled Hessian fiefdom and thus enfeoffed Ruprecht. Since Johann I von Nassau-Dillenburg also made a claim, serious disputes ensued.

View from the street to the tower

Ruprecht died in 1390 and his widow Anna von Nassau-Hadamar († January 21, 1404), daughter of Count Johann von Nassau-Hadamar and Elisabeth von Waldeck, married Diether VIII von Katzenelnbogen , who thereby owned a third of Driedorf got. With his death in 1402, the castle came into the possession of the Hessian Landgrave Hermann II of Hesse and Diether's son from his first marriage, Johann IV von Katzenelnbogen , who shared ownership and renovated the castle. When the Katzenelnbogen family died out in 1479, Driedorf went to Count Heinrich III from Upper Hesse . from Hessen-Marburg . In 1557, Driedorf returned to the Nassau family after long legal disputes. In 1604 the castle was renewed again.

Several severe city fires, such as in 1635 and 1672, led to more and more destruction in the castle; another fire in 1812 turned the castle into ruins. The castle was not rebuilt after that and fell into disrepair, the remains were built over by local extensions.

investment

The Driedorfer Oberburg joined with its ring wall and five towers with the city ​​wall . A rectangular keep (the upper tower ) with a transition to the city wall and remnants of the Bering is still preserved on the north-western edge of the village . The renovated castle ruin is a Hessian cultural monument. The preserved tower is privately owned and can only be viewed from the street.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 419 f.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 86.

Web links

Commons : Oberburg Driedorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Knappe, p. 420
  2. ^ A b State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Oberburg In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse