Schnepfenburg (Friedrichsdorf)

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Schnepfenburg
Overview of the Schnepfenburg

Overview of the Schnepfenburg

Alternative name (s): Old castle, Schneppenburg
Creation time : Middle Ages (no later than 12th century)
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Noble
Construction: moth
Place: Friedrichsdorf
Geographical location 50 ° 15 '47.2 "  N , 8 ° 38' 21.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '47.2 "  N , 8 ° 38' 21.2"  E
Schnepfenburg (Hesse)
Schnepfenburg

The Schnepf Castle is an Outbound medieval Motte (motte) on the northern edge of Friedrichsdorf in Hochtaunuskreis .

Description and history

Plat of Seulberger Mark of 1715, with "K" is "The Schneppenburg since the rudera addition to the dig watching umbundumb yet this hour are" marked

The name goes back to the Schnepfenborn spring , which was important for the choice of the facility. The earth wall is round with a diameter of 58 meters. The walls themselves are 10 meters wide and 2 meters high. The trench is also 10 meters wide and 2 meters deep. The Burgstall is located at the exit of a hollow, the waters of which once filled the Schanzengraben. An economic complex on the valley side belonged to the castle, which is no longer preserved. The Schnepfenburg was completely destroyed after its capture in the Thirty Years War .

Subsequent use

The area remained uninhabited, only in 1804 the place Dillingen ("Schnepfenberg") was founded west of the Schnepfenburg by Landgrave Friedrich V of Hessen-Homburg , delimited from Friedrichsdorf by the Alte Grenzstraße located south (below), with which part of the north ditch was built over is.

From 1873 to 1937 the landgrave column was located at the Schnepfenburg.

Apart from the open field on the north-west side, houses have been built all around since the end of the Second World War. The Schnepfenburg itself is in a wood . Today there is a viewing pavilion on the edge of the wall on the valley side, where the Schnepfenbach flows away. However, the view facing the city center and Hugenottenstrasse is completely overgrown and blocked.

  • View from southwest with pavilion

  • View from the southwest

  • View from the northwest

Monument protection

The area of ​​the ramparts is a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.

literature

  • Karl August von Cohausen : The ramparts, military forces and old entrenchments of the administrative district of Wiesbaden. In: Annals of the Society for Nassau antiquity and historical research. Vol. 15, 1879, ZDB -ID 504639-7 , pp. 343-377, no. 54.

Single receipts

  1. ^ Dillingen - former part of Friedrichsdorf