Grebenau moated castle

Grebenau moated castle
	Town hall of Grebenau in the former Johanniterkommende
Alternative name (s):	Castle Capelle
Creation time :	13th Century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall, cellar
Standing position :	Local nobility
Place:	Grebenau
Geographical location	50 ° 44 '29 " N , 9 ° 28' 28.1" E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '29 " N , 9 ° 28' 28.1" E
Height:	267 m above sea level NN

The moated castle Grebenau , formerly also called Burg Capelle , is an abandoned medieval moated castle on the left bank of the Jossa on the southern edge of the town center of Grebenau ( Amthof 2 ) in the Vogelsberg district in Hesse .

The castle was built in the 13th century on the site of an earlier imperial chancellery, which served to secure the "road through the short Hessians" , by the Counts of Ziegenhain , who were tenants of both Fulda and Hersfeld Abbey . From 1254 to 1273 the castle and 14 other castles in the Rhön and Vogelsberg were destroyed by the Fulda abbot Bertho II, known as "Abbot Fingerhut" . The castle building was later rebuilt by the Johannitern and a commandery founded around 1278 .

In the following 250 years "daz hus zu Grebenouwe" came to Landgrave Heinrich von Hessen , Friedrich von Lißberg , Rohrich von Eisenbach and Frytschin von Schlitz .

Today the town hall is located in the building . The cellar of the former moated castle is still preserved.

literature

Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 237-238
Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hessen I , 2008, p. 334

Web links

Entry on Wasserburg Grebenau in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

^ Burg Grebenau, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of November 24, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 29, 2014 .
^ History of Grebenau

[1] Burg Grebenau, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of November 24, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 29, 2014 .

[2] History of Grebenau