Ottersbach moated castle

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Ottersbach moated castle
Creation time : around 1354
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of the moat
Place: Bad Sooden-Allendorf - Kammerbach
Geographical location 51 ° 15 '18.7 "  N , 9 ° 53' 28"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '18.7 "  N , 9 ° 53' 28"  E
Height: 318  m above sea level NN
Moated castle Ottersbach (Hesse)
Ottersbach moated castle

The moated castle Ottersbach is a lost moated castle in the district of Kammerbach , a district of Bad Sooden-Allendorf in the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse .

location

The small moated castle was about 2 km southwest of Kammerbach at 318  m above sea level. NN Höhe on the left, western bank of the Ottersbach , the right source brook of the Oberrieder brook , shortly before it turns north towards Hilgershausen coming from the south-west . The state road L 3301 leads today in a distance of about 700 m to the south and west of the Burgstall , which can be reached from the road via a dirt road .

history

It is not certain when the castle was built. The place Otterbach was first mentioned in 1300, when the brothers of Rusteberg Landgrave Henry I of Hesse exchanged their goods there and they sold to the Landgrave. In 1354, the von Völkershausen brothers declared that they were to build a bower and apartment in Attirsbach and that they were to be given a fiefdom from the landgrave . Whether this building replaced an earlier and less permanent facility is possible, but unknown.

The end of the castle is just as uncertain. It seems to have been abandoned around the middle of the 15th century: the small town near the castle was still referred to as a village in 1438, but in 1461 as a desert . The settlement is then referred to as a village again as early as 1463, but the castle as such is no longer mentioned, although landgrave enfeoffments with the court and village of Ottersbach are documented until 1837.

Current condition

Today only the remains of the moat that surrounded the facility are faintly visible in the area. There is nothing left of the bower or any other buildings. Otherwise only the field name "Vor dem Schlosspfuhl" reminds of the former castle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Ottersbach Castle, Werra-Meißner District". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of January 30, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

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