Ellershausen moated castle

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Ellershausen moated castle
Creation time : Early 13th century, around 1214
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: little remnant of the curtain wall, cellar
Standing position : Local nobility
Place: Frankenau - Ellershausen
Geographical location 51 ° 4 '55.5 "  N , 8 ° 53' 29.4"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 4 '55.5 "  N , 8 ° 53' 29.4"  E
Height: 365  m above sea level NHN
Wasserburg Ellershausen (Hesse)
Ellershausen moated castle

The moated castle Ellershausen is a lost moated castle in Ellershausen , a district of Frankenau in the north Hessian district Waldeck-Frankenberg .

location

Today there is an inn on the site of the former castle. The street “Zum Adligen Hof” begins at the intersection of Lengeltalstrasse and Allendorfer Strasse.

history

Ellershausen was mentioned in a document as early as 1016. Probably at the beginning of the 13th century, around 1214, the Lords of Ellershausen built a moated castle north of the village. This noble family was mentioned in a document between 1214 and 1270. In 1264 ownership of the castle passed to the knight family Huhn, who were castle men in Frankenberg and owned it until 1571, maybe also until 1587. In 1587 the Nassau fiefdoms had expired. Count Johann VI. von Nassau-Dillenburg sold the fallen property to Landgrave Ludwig IV of Hesse-Marburg , who issued new letters of fief. By marriage and inheritance, the castle became the property of the von Dersch zu Viermünden family . Philipp Wilhelm von Dersch (1641–1702) is a well-known representative of this line who lived at a time when the division of the Protestant camp into a Lutheran majority and a Reformed minority led to religious disputes in Ellershausen as well. In 1728 the fief came by inheritance to the von Drach family, when the daughter Sophie Dorothea Renata of the late Georg Ehrhard von Dersch married Ernst Wilhelm von Drach (also Trach , Drache ); she received the noble estate at Ellershausen and the Lengelmühle .

In 1631, during the Thirty Years War , the moats were still there. Around 1900 these were filled in and the stones of the curtain wall used to build a stable and a barn.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Hesse I . ISBN 3-42203-092-1 , pp. 205 f.
  • H. Röhle: The von Drach family - Ellershausen, 1985
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 142.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ellershausen map .  In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ The connection alleged by Rudolf Knappe in his book as a branch line of the noble family von Viermünden cannot be proven. There is also no equality of arms.
  3. ↑ fiormenni - Viermünden a fascinating municipality in the heart of Germany: History of the 18th century , website of the town of Viermünden, accessed on November 13, 2016