Great-Buseck southern castle

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Unknown ("Southern Castle")
Creation time : around 1400
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: gone, no leftovers
Standing position : Noble
Place: Buseck - Grossen-Buseck
Height: 200  m above sea level NHN

The castle known today as Südliche Burg Großen-Buseck was one of two medieval castles and was located southwest of the center of Großen-Buseck , part of the municipality of Buseck in the district of Gießen, east of the university town of Gießen in the state of Hesse .

description

It was a moated castle owned by the von Buseck family . They had their headquarters in the neighboring Alten-Buseck and built three castles there: the Brandsburg , the Hofburg , the Zaunburg . A Gernand von Buseck , probably the son of the builder of the Zaunburg, built the southern castle in the neighboring Grossen-Buseck around 1400, the exact name of which has not been recorded in a document. It was in the hallway "The Burgwiesen". Their trenches were probably filled by the Wieseck . Weak depressions give an idea of the former course of the moat . The site belonged to the Arnsburg monastery . The exact appearance and the further history of the castle are in the dark. It is not known whether the castle was destroyed or fell into disrepair. The last remains are said to have been broken off in 1772.

The castle can be seen as a counterbalance to the northern castle of Großen-Buseck (later Buseck Castle ) of the Lords of Trohe . Both families were in the inheritance of the Busecker districts (with the exception of Trohe ) comprehensive rule of the Busecker valley , an imperial fief that was probably given in the 13th century by Emperor Friedrich II .

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 303.
  • Noppes, Elke, Reinholz-Hein, Ilse, Kaul, Albrecht, Kreuter, Peter, Lied, Herbert: The castle in Grossen-Buseck. History of a noble castle seat , published by the Buseck community, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-930612-15-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. at Noppes among others: The castle in Grossen-Buseck. History of a noble castle seat , Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-930612-15-1