Upper Castle (Obernburg)

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Upper castle
Sketch of the facility around 1850

Sketch of the facility around 1850

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 Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '52.4 "  N , 8 ° 54' 1.4"  E
Height: 380  m above sea level NHN
Upper Castle (Hesse)
Upper castle

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.

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