Huxhohl moated castle

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Huxhohl moated castle
Alternative name (s): Hulreshol (1335), Huxol (1506)
Creation time : 1335, first mentioned
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Lichtenfels - Dalwigksthal
Geographical location 51 ° 9 '2.7 "  N , 8 ° 48' 8.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '2.7 "  N , 8 ° 48' 8.6"  E
Height: 305  m above sea level NHN
Huxhohl moated castle (Hesse)
Huxhohl moated castle

The castle Huxhohl is an Outbound Wasserburg in Orketal at the foot of the Burg Lichtenfels few meters from the farm Sandhof at a ford east of Dalwigksthal , a district of Lichtenfels in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg .

history

Coat of arms of the feudal owners, the Lords of Dorfeld

When and by whom the small castle was built is not known. The castle was first mentioned as Hulreshol in 1335 , when the Grafschaft monastery acquired half of the tithe . The castle was owned by the Lords of Dorfeld (also called von Dorffelt ), who actually came from Westphalia (Medebach) . It was burned down by the Lords of Viermünden during a feud in 1506 (now called Huxol ) , but then rebuilt. In the middle of the 16th century, Bernhard von Dorfeld zu Medebach is known, Burgmann zu Medebach (mentioned 1532 and 1541), with castle loan to Huxhohl and Lichtenfels (1540) and with patronage rights in the parish church of Ense , and fellow margret zu Glindfeld (mentioned 1547).

With the death of Caspar von Dorfeld on November 30, 1609 and the extinction of the lords of Dorfeld in the male line , the castle came into the possession of the lords of Dalwigk . After that it gradually fell into disrepair, was finally completely demolished and the moats were filled in. The site was later completely leveled. In 1825 in the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte it is reported that the land had been added to the manor Burg Sand .

There are no visible remains. A moat is still faintly perceptible in the area. The name Im Hux-Hohl has been handed down as a field name.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 120.
  • Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen : Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- u. History of the Regents , Göttingen 1825, pp. 51 and 78

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the Lords of Dorfeld, see: Anton Fahne : History of the Westphalian generations , Cologne 1858, Dorfeld, p. 133
  2. ↑ 1451 a Hermann von Dorfeld ( Durfelde ) is named as bailiff of Medebach, Hallenberg, Schmallenberg and Winterberg (LA Duisburg, Jülich-Berg I No. 451 p. 17.)
  3. ↑ cf. Bernhard von Dorfeld on genealogy.net
  4. ↑ Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck: The knight castles and mountain castles of Germany , therein: Lichtenfels im Fürstenthum Waldeck , Halle 1831, p. 170
  5. ^ Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- u. History of regents , p. 78
  6. ↑ In Huxhohl (Dalwigksthal). Hessian field names. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 26, 2016 .