Steuererburg (Gräveneck)

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Tax castle
No longer recognizable today, the castle is said to have stood on this hill.

No longer recognizable today, the castle is said to have stood on this hill.

Creation time : 1381
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Graeveneck
Geographical location 50 ° 27 '2.5 "  N , 8 ° 15' 55.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '2.5 "  N , 8 ° 15' 55.8"  E
Height: 220  m above sea level NHN
Tax Castle (Hesse)
Tax castle

The Steuerburg is a defunct Niederungsburg in the district of Gräveneck , a district of the municipality of Weinbach , in the Limburg-Weilburg district (Hesse).

The castle was in 1381 by Landgrave Hermann II. Of Hesse , Count Ruprecht VII. Of Nassau-Sonnenberg, which in 1381 by King Wenceslas to the bailiff of the Wetterau had been appointed, and the Count of Solms , Johann II. Of Limburg and Dietrich III. built by Runkel as a siege castle against Neu-Elkerhausen Castle. Their masters had been accused of numerous robberies and should be punished for it. After the siege was over, the tax castle should be demolished again.

The Lords of Elkerhausen were in this dispute by Count Palatine Ruprecht I near Rhine and Count Wilhelm II. And Dieter VIII. Von Katzenelnbogen , Simon III. and Johann IV. von Sponheim and Johann I. von Nassau-Dillenburg supported.

However, the Lords of Elkerhausen succeeded in destroying the control castle by arson in 1382, the year after it was built. It was not rebuilt and the besiegers did not succeed in destroying the castle of the unpopular Elkerhausener.

In 1395, under Count Philip I of Nassau and his allies, another fortress was built opposite Neu-Elkerhausen Castle, Gräveneck Castle , and in the following year the robber baron nest was conquered and destroyed.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ After the destruction of Neu-Elkerhausen Castle in 1396, it lost its strategic importance. The village of Gräveneck came into being after the castle was built.

literature

  • Ingrid Krupp: The history of the lords of Elkerhausen and their castles . in: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsverein Gießen , Vol. 67, Gießen, 1982, pp. 9–94
  • Ingrid Krupp: The history of the lords of Elkerhausen and their castles , in: das münster, magazine for Christian art and art history , issue 3, Munich / Zurich, 1982, p. 250 ff

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