Oberwall Rüdigershagen
| Oberwall Rüdigershagen | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Upper castle Hagen | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, Wall and Graben | |
| Standing position : | Local nobility | |
| Place: | Rudigershagen | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 20 '41.6 " N , 10 ° 26' 36.6" E | |
| Height: | 370 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Oberwall , also called Oberburg , is an abandoned medieval castle in Rüdigershagen in the municipality of Niederorschel in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .
location
The former castle is located on the southern outskirts of Rüdigershagen at the foot of the steep fall of the Dün on a small flat mountain ledge. Today's state road L1015 leads from Hüpstedt between Wallingsberg and Köhlerberg in a small valley cut serpentine around the village in the direction of Niederorschel .
history
The castle was located on a historic trunk road from Mühlhausen over the Dün to Duderstadt and northern Germany and was certainly used to monitor them. It was presumably in direct relation to the nearby lower castle in Rüdigershagen, an exact allocation of historical evidence to the various castles is not always possible.
It is not known exactly when the upper castle was built. Both castles were owned by the Dukes of Braunschweig in the 13th century . A Burchard von Bodungen was their castle man in Hagen in 1273 ( castellanus noster Indagine ). In 1288 a Gunter von Hagen and his son are named as the owners of the lower castle ( de indagine de inferiori castro ) and other lords as civis superioris castri in indagine in a document as witnesses. In 1300 an Eckardt Wolf was named as Castelanus de Indagine , which castle is not described, and Westernhagen Castle near Berlingerode was initially only named Hagen Castle.
The Lords of Hagen had as the Castle Men imperial imperial castle Mulhouse until their destruction a castle seat. In 1311 Heinrich and Dietrich were lords of the lower castle and vowed to grant the city of Mühlhausen security and protection in the castles of Oberhagen and Unterhagen. The castles are probably pledged by the Dukes of Braunschweig. Both castles are said to have been destroyed by citizens of Mühlhausen in 1315. In 1352 the brothers Heinrich and Theodor signed a contract with the city of Mühlhausen on an eternal peace because of the destruction of Hagen Castle. The von Hagen family finally settled in neighboring Deuna .
After that, probably only the lower castle was rebuilt, but archaeological finds can also be verified on the upper castle for the time thereafter. Heinrich and his son Rüdiger von Hagen pledged both castle seats to the von Knorr family in 1376 . In 1544 Christoph von Hagen redeemed the pledge and brought both castle seats back into the possession of the von Hagen family.
The name Wall probably came about when the castles were abandoned. Due to the fact that the castles and the village of Rüdigershagen belong to the Duchy of Braunschweig and the later Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , it was not part of the historical Eichsfeld , old boundary stones on the boundary still bear witness to this today.
Whether there was another castle on the ridge of the Dün, the Schwarzburger Kopf, can neither be proven archaeologically nor documented in documents.
investment
The Oberwall, also called the uppermost house or Hinterm Walle, is located on the southern edge of the village development at the transition to the Dünwald on a slightly north-sloping terrain. The formerly round castle site has been destroyed in the north and east by development, in the south and west a wall with a ditch in front of it and another wall can still be seen . Wall and moat are more pronounced at the upper castle, there was no moat here.
literature
- Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : The desert areas of the Eichsfeld: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of justice and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, pp. 522-524
- Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, pp. 25–27, 61–62
- Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000
Web links
- Private website about Rüdigershagen
- Entry on Obere Burg in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved July 18, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Wolf: Memories of the city of Worbis and its surroundings. Göttingen 1818, p. 78
- ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, p. 62
- ↑ Rolf Aulepp: The castles and old streets of the Dün. Eichsfelder Heimathefte, issue 2/1985, p. 146