Haxterberg tower hill
| Haxterberg tower hill | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Haxthausisches house | |
| Creation time : | middle Ages | |
| Castle type : | Hill castle, hillside location, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Tower hill and moat | |
| Standing position : | Knight's seat | |
| Place: | Paderborn | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 41 '16.7 " N , 8 ° 47' 0.7" E | |
| Height: | 220 m above sea level NN | |
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The tower hill Haxterberg , called Haxthausisches Haus , is a medieval hilltop castle of the type of a motte (tower hill castle) south of Paderborn , Paderborn district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is considered the ancestral and knight seat of the von Haxthausen family .
location
The Hangburg Turmhügel Haxterberg is located 1.5 km south of Paderborn on the upper edge of the steep Haxtergrund brook valley at 220 m above sea level. Today the Haxterberg - sometimes also called Pohlberg - is referred to as Schlossberg , if not the tower hill, the desert Haxthusen or the property of the von Haxthausen family .
history
The tower hill Haxterberg is located in the desert Haxthusen , which is first mentioned in 1036 as Haxsuithehusun . The ministerial family of the Lords of Haxthausen was first mentioned in 1269 with Helwicus de Haxwidehusen . From Paderborn provost with the Villikation Haxthausen invested that in 1317 as officium Haxtehosen was called, they were counted among the "four noble Meiern and pillars" of the Paderborn church, the most important assets of the cathedral chapter managed.
The tower hill Haxterberg is considered to be their ancestral seat and their fiefdoms formed a closed district from the Haxter Holz south of the Haxtergrund over the Haxterberg to the Haxthauser Feld at this point at the end of the 18th century . On a map from the 18th century there is the remark "in the south of the mountain, where the Haxthausische house stood".
description
The oval tower hill has a diameter of 15 to 20 m and the flat top is 12 m × 7 m in size. A ditch , 7 m wide and 1.4 m deep, has been preserved around the hill .
The tower hill is located south of the knee path that once followed the Paderborn Landwehr . Beyond the path is the Haxterpohl , a collapsed sinkhole ( 51 ° 41 ′ 18 ″ N, 8 ° 46 ′ 59 ″ E ), which at the beginning of the 20th century always carried water and thus ensured the water supply on the arid Paderborn plateau . Before the separations in the second half of the 19th century, the Pohlweg led directly east along the Haxterpohl.
Traces of sunken paths west of the tower hill are interpreted as part of the so-called Paderborn Via Regia to Niedermarsberg . The castle grounds are now used as a forest .
See also
literature
- Manfred Balzer: Tower hill on the Haxterberg south of Paderborn. (= Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Hg.): Guide to prehistory and early history I the monuments. Vol. 20 Paderborn plateau. Paderborn. Büren. Salzkotten. ) Mainz 1971, pp. 275-277.
Web links
- Entry on the Haxterberg tower in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the presentation follows the works given under literature and web link.
- ↑ Michael Lagers: The Paderborn pin needle to the middle of the 15th century - Investigations into the development and expansion of power structures of lower nobility. (= Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann (ed.): Studies and sources on Westphalian history. Vol. 74 ) Paderborn 2013, pp. 152–154.