Upper Castle (Obernburg)
Upper castle | ||
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Sketch of the facility around 1850 |
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Alternative name (s): | Obernburg, Obere Burg Itter, Itterburg , Weißenstein | |
Creation time : | 1058, first mentioned | |
Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
Conservation status: | small wall remains | |
Standing position : | Nobles | |
Place: | Vöhl - Obernburg | |
Geographical location | 51 ° 13 '52.4 " N , 8 ° 54' 1.4" E | |
Height: | 380 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Upper Castle is an Outbound hilltop castle on 380 m above sea level. NN near Obernburg , a district of the municipality of Vöhl in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .
history
Immediately southwest of the town of Obernburg there was a castle on the Weißenstein, which was first mentioned in 1058, probably as the first of the three Itter castles . The name of the mountain comes from the white limestone rock on which the castle was built. The builders are the von Itter , whose first ancestral seat it was probably. With the extinction of the first house of Itter in 1123 in the male line , the female heirs carried the northern part of their rule with the upper castle of the Corvey Abbey for protection. After the Itterburg was built around 1126, the Obernburg lost its importance and was probably abandoned in the 13th century. It was last mentioned in a document in 1523. It is not known when the castle fell into disrepair.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Hessen I , 1st edition Deutscher Kunstverlag 2008, ISBN 9783422030923 , p. 726.
- Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 150.
- CF Günther: Pictures from the Hessian prehistory: With 51 plates illustrations , therein: The Itterburg with the Steuerburg and the Obernburg , Jonghans, Darmstadt, 1853, pp. 334–344
Web links
- Obernburg (castle), Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of October 2, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 25, 2019 .