Lower castle (Fronhausen)

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Lower castle in Fronhausen
Lower castle Fronhausen 1.jpg
Creation time : 1367
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: essentially preserved
Place: Fronhausen
Geographical location 50 ° 42 '17 "  N , 8 ° 41' 49"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '17 "  N , 8 ° 41' 49"  E
Unterburg (Hesse)
Lower castle

The lower castle in Fronhausen is an original moated castle and later a castle in Burgstrasse in the municipality of Fronhausen in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

history

In 1367 the lower castle was built as a Hessian fiefdom by Craft Vogt von Fronhausen after the estate was divided . see also Oberburg

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the lower castle was owned by several families. After the last male member of the Vogt von Fronhausen family died out in 1584, the lower castle was inherited by the von Schweinsberg taverns in 1585 . In 1589 the lower castle fell to Hesse, was temporarily the residence of the landgrave mayor and was bought back in 1917 by the Schweinsberg taverns.

description

The lower castle, the foundation walls of which have been preserved in the new building and whose former moats have sunk into today's park, shows the well-preserved castle, a large Gothic stone building with cross- frame windows and a baroque mansard roof, the gate of which is connected to a farm building, with timber frame restored in 1945 .

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