Schwarzenhasel moated castle

Schwarzenhasel moated castle
Creation time :	first mentioned in 1371
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Patronage and residential house, moat
Place:	Rotenburg ad Fulda - Schwarzenhasel
Geographical location	51 ° 1 '24.2 "  N , 9 ° 46' 16"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '24.2 "  N , 9 ° 46' 16"  E

The Schwarzenhasel moated castle is a well-preserved moated castle in Schwarzenhasel , a district of Rotenburg an der Fulda in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northern Hesse .

Location and current state

It is located at the northern end of the village in Haselgrund and today consists of a patronage and residential house and a castle garden with old trees. The building is rectangular with a solid substructure and two half-timbered floors. The facility is still three-quarters of the way - in the west, north and east - surrounded by a moat about three meters wide . It is inhabited and the current owner continues to be the patron saint of the Schwarzenhasel parish by tradition .

history

In 1371, a castle based in Schwarzenhasel first mentioned, the Heinrich von Holzheim as hersfeldisches fiefdom owned. From 1432, when the Landgraves of Hesse became hereditary patrons of Hersfeld Abbey, the fiefdom, which included the castle and the village, was then Landgrave-Hessian. The von Holzheim family held it until 1522.

In 1527 the village and castle became a Hessian fiefdom of the lords of Trott (Treffurter line), who were already wealthy in Solz and Imshausen . Around 1600 they built today's moated castle on the basis of this previous building, which then became the headquarters of the von Trott zu Schwarzenhasel family branch. When this branch became extinct in 1813 with Carl Ludwig Trott zu Schwarzenhasel in the male line, the property, to which a large manor belonged, came to the Trott zu Solz, who owned it until 1823.

Franz von Bodelschwingh (1862–1933), owner of the Velmede and Töddinghausen estates in Westphalia, acquired the Schwarzenhasel forest estate in 1896. He made his nephew and adoptive son Ernst von Bodelschwingh (1906–1993), son of pastor Wilhelm von Bodelschwingh , an heir . Today's owner is Reinhard von Bodelschwingh.

literature

• Reinhard von Bodelschwingh: On the history of the moated castle and the castle seat "Schwarzenhasel" and their owners. In: Rund um den Alheimer, Vol. 19, Ed .: Rotenburg branch of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, 1998, pp. 33–41
• Chronicle Schwarzenhasel - A village through the ages. 700 years of village history. City of Rotenburg an der Fulda, City Archives, 2012, ISBN 978-3-932580-10-9
• Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 174.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Christoph von Rommel : History of Hesse, Volume V, Modern History of Hesse, First Volume. Kassel, 1835, p. 440
2. ↑ Rommel, p. 441
3. ↑ Bodelschwingh, House Velmede