Ludwigseck Palace

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Ludwigseck on a lithographic reprint from before 1839
Ludwigseck Palace, Ludwigsau community

The Ludwigseck Castle is a castle in the town of Ludwigsau in the district of Rotenburg in northeastern Hesse . It was built as a castle in the early 15th century .

Geographical location

The castle stands between the Ludwigsau districts of Ersrode in the west-southwest and Beenhausen in the south-southeast and the southern Alheim district of Sterkelshausen in the north-northeast. West-southwest below the Schlossberg (approx.  490  m above sea level ), a north-western mountain spur of the Dammskopf ( 520.9  m above sea level ), the highest elevation of the Neuenstein-Ludwigsecker ridge in the Rotenburg-Ludwigsecker forest, it is located on one of the southwest of the upper course valley of the Rohrbach sloping and partly wooded hill ( 441  m above sea level ). To the west past the castle, the state road  3253 runs south of Sterkelshausen with a connection close to the castle to the L 3254, which connects Ersrode and Beenhausen, and to the east the Strutbach rises, which flows as the Osterbach tributary along the L 3254 to Sterkelshausen. About 200 m north of the castle is the basalt rock cliff Atzelstein  ( ⊙ ).

history

The castle was built at the instigation of Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse by the knights and hereditary marshals Eckhard II and Friedrich von Röhrenfurth and the knights of Holzheim and completed in 1419. With the help of this fortification, the Landgrave increased the pressure on the Hersfeld Abbey . The hands of the Hersfeld abbot Hermann II von Altenburg (1398–1418) were tied due to the political circumstances at the time, and he was only able to state with resignation that the landgrave had built this castle "on our own land and property". The two sexes, originally wealthy in the Melsungen area , received the area around the castle they had built as a fief in 1419 , until they changed to the fiefdom of the Riedesel Freiherren zu Eisenbach by inheritance from 1432 and completely from 1449 . In 1432 Hermann I. Riedesel inherited from his father-in-law Eckhard II von Röhrenfurt the court office of the Hereditary Marshal for the House of Hesse as well as Lauterbach Castle and Eisenbach Castle .

In the Thirty Years' War Ludwigseck was partially destroyed and then rebuilt in 1677 as a castle. During the 18th century the castle fell into disrepair again. It was made habitable again in the middle of the 19th century through the commitment of Ludwig and Wilhelmine Riedesel zu Eisenbach. The complex was renovated and rebuilt in 1856 in the style of historicism by the architect Hugo von Ritgen . Ludwigseck is one of the last fortified castles built in Germany.

In the 1980s, the castle came into the possession of von und zu Gilsa , who currently live on the property, through succession . Today the Gilsa with the Ludwigseck Castle are listed in the registry of the Knights of the Old Hessen .

The facility is privately owned and cannot be visited.

On February 27, 2011, the 17th century forester's house in front of the courtyard was destroyed in a fire.

The Ludwigseck court

The court "in der Rohrbach " (later "Court Ludwigseck") consisted of the villages Beenhausen, Gerterode, Heierode, Rohrbach, Oberhalhausen and Niederthalhausen and Tann in 1538. In some cases, Ersrode, Trunsbach and the Schöpbach desert are also included. The court was located in the village of Tann. From 1579 the court belonged to the Rotenburg office , which was part of the Rotenburger Quart from 1627 to 1835 .

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. 172.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 243.
  • Monika Muhlack: Castle and Palace Ludwigseck . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse : Monument Preservation & Cultural History 2/2018, pp. 30–34.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners , 4th volume, JJ Bohné, Kassel, 1839, p. 102
  2. ^ After the death of the last Hessian Hereditary Marshal from the Riedesel-Ludwigseck line
  3. ↑ Article in the online edition of the Hersfelder Zeitung "Outbuilding of Ludwigseck Palace burned out"
  4. ↑ Article in the online edition of the Hersfelder Zeitung "Cause of fire: cracks in the chimney"
  5. ^ "In der Rohrbach, District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 28 ″  E