Uerzell moated castle

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Uerzell moated castle
Alternative name (s): Urzil Castle, Uerzell Castle
Creation time : 1337
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, built-up remains
Standing position : Lower nobility
Construction: stone
Place: Uerzell
Geographical location 50 ° 23 '33.6 "  N , 9 ° 26' 1.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '33.6 "  N , 9 ° 26' 1.7"  E
Uerzell moated castle (Hesse)
Uerzell moated castle

The Wasserburg Uerzell even castle Urzil or Uerzeller Castle called, is a Outbound medieval moated castle of the low nobility of Mörle , located on the northern outskirts of Uerzell , a district of osthessischen Steinau in Main-Kinzig-Kreis in the state of Hesse .

location

Uerzell is located about eleven kilometers north of Steinau on the road in a side valley to the upper Steinebach (Steinaubach), through which the Ürzeller water flows. On the northern outskirts of the town was the former moated castle, which today is only preserved in built-up remains.

history

Coat of arms of those von Mörle called Beheim

The Lords of Mörle are first mentioned in a document in 1227. Around 1337, Heinrich von Mörle ( Henz von Mörle, called Beheim ), who was the governor of the Ulmbach court , which belonged to the Neuenberg monastery near Fulda , built a small castle in the village. In 1357 he offered the castle to the Fulda Abbey as a fief . From 1359 he was Burgmann of the Hanau castle in Steinau . His successor there, Konrad von Mörle, got caught up in a dispute between the Fulda knights and the Schlüchtern monastery from 1384 to 1385 . After the feud was over, he had to grant Count Ulrich V (Hanau) , the monastery's umbrella bailiff , the right to open the castle. Until the mid-15th century, laid the of Mörle to the robber barons and were notorious for their attacks on merchant trains. When they did not release the knight Johann von Wallenstein after he was captured, the castle was conquered in 1450 by the troops of the Fulda abbot Reinhard von Weilnau and partially destroyed.

The castle was partially destroyed a second time in 1522 when the Franconian district chief Count Georg II von Wertheim on the orders of Emperor Karl V against the knight Mangold II von Eberstein, who was ostracized because of his feud against the imperial city of Nuremberg and his raids and robberies went into the field to collect his belongings and goods. Georg von Wertheim not only conquered and destroyed Mangold's Brandenstein Castle , which the peace breaker had previously abandoned, but also the castle of the Eberstein allies in Uerzell. The castle was not repaired until 1543.

After the death of Balthasar Philipp von Mörle in 1633, the castle first passed to Daniel von Hutten , who was married to one of Balthasar's daughters, and then in the same year to Hartwig von Thüngen, who was also married to a Mörler heir . The von Thüngen settled administrators at the castle and owned it as a fuldisches fief until 1680. In 1682 the von Mauchenheim were enfeoffed with the rule. In 1684 and 1699, the Fulda Abbey bought the small manor and castle in full and appointed a bailiff. In 1727 a new repair took place, arranged by Prince Abbot Adolf von Dalberg .

In 1812 the building came into private hands. Its remains are still in the family today.

description

The original building had three stories and was lowered to two stories in 1870. At the building there was a residential tower with meter thick walls, the remains of which are now installed in a residential building. Outbuildings and defensive walls were put down at the end of the 19th century. The moats have long been filled, but are still partially visible, especially in the rear area.

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 , pp. 375-376.
  • Heinrich Reimer : Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen, unchangeable. Reprint d. 1st edition Marburg 1926, Marburg: Elwert 1974, p. 475
  • Georg Landau: Historical-typographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse and in the grand-ducal Hessian parts of Hessengaue, Oberlahngaue and Ittergaue , Kassel 1858, Verlag Theodor Fischer, p. 373
  • P. Cauer: The gentlemen from Mörle called Böhm and their residence in Uerzell. In: Our home (Schlüchtern), Vol. 1, Verlag des Heimatbund, Schlüchtern, 1912, pp. 180–196

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Ritter von Aschbach: History of the Counts of Wertheim from the earliest times to their extinction in the male line in 1556. Andreaeische Buchhandlung, Frankfurt / Main, 1843, pp. 294–295 & pp. 320–322