Grossen-Buseck Castle

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West view of the castle
South view of the castle with bridge and gate passage
Courtyard view of the castle
Double coat of arms on the castle
Knight figure with Trohe coat of arms at the castle

The Castle Great-Buseck or Busecker Castle is in the neo-gothic built style castle on the site of a medieval moated castle in Grand-Buseck , community Buseck in central Hesse Gießen district east of the university town of Giessen . Today's castle is located at a height of 200 meters above sea ​​level north of the town center in its own park .

history

The moated castle

The castle had a moated castle as a predecessor. It was a Hessian fiefdom from the 15th century .

The castle was a lordship of the von Trohe in the place. They formed an inheritance with the von Buseck family , which included, among other things, the Busecker districts (with the exception of Trohe ) and formed the rule of the Busecker valley , an imperial fief that was probably given in the 13th century by Emperor Friedrich II .

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1458. The Schutzbar family called Milchling had a palace built on the square complex in 1580. Of the old complex itself, only the cellars, laid out as barrel vaults, have been integrated into the castle. The drained trenches can still be seen around the castle. The current gate entrance was probably also the earlier entrance to the castle.

The lock

In 1784 the owners had to leave the castle to their creditors due to economic difficulties. At the end of 1785, the community of Großen-Buseck auctioned the surrounding estate and castle for 35,000 guilders, but did not come into possession. The government of Hessen-Darmstadt refused the sale because of the feudal right and for the same money the bankruptcy estate went another year later to the widow of the Privy Councilor Johann Jacob Freiherr von Zwierlein , Elisabetha Dorothea Freifrau von Zwierlein née. by choice, enfeoffed by Landgrave Ludwig IX. from Hessen-Darmstadt . Her great-granddaughter married Freiherr Friedrich von Nordeck zur Rabenau in 1829 . You, Baroness Ernestine von Nordeck zur Rabenau born. von Zwierlein, had the palace building renovated and modernized in its current neo-Gothic style in 1860 and also asked the Grand Duchy of Hesse to convert their fiefdom to Grossen-Buseck into free property free of charge .

In 1976 the community acquired the castle, park and manor. Two years later (after the formation of the municipality of Buseck through the regional reform in Hesse on January 1, 1977) the decision to preserve the palace and park was made and after extensive restoration work, the municipal administration moved in in 1981 .

Today, the facility is the seat of the Buseck municipal administration and the center of communal life.

literature

  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 68–69.
  • 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.
  • Elke Noppes, Ilse Reinholz-Hein, Albrecht Kaul, Peter Kreuter, Herbert Lied: The castle in Grossen-Buseck. History of a noble castle seat . Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-930612-15-1 .
  • Elke Noppes, Ilse Reinholz-Hein: The tower castle in Grossen-Buseck, called Der Perch . Series of publications by the local history working group Buseck: Sonderheft, Buseck 2002.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Großen-Buseck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. at Noppes u. a .: The castle in Grossen-Buseck. History of a noble castle seat , Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-930612-15-1
  2. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt: Inventory number O 8 No. 399.

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '39.4 "  N , 8 ° 47' 15.8"  E