Gershausen moated castle

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 26 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 30 ″  E

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The moated castle Gershausen is a former moated castle in the district of Braunau , a southern district of Bad Wildungen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse . The castle was located on the site of today's Gut Gershäuser Hof in the Kellerwald , about 7 km south of Bad Wildungen, in the southernmost tip of the former principality of Waldeck .

Current condition

The residential building, which was expanded between 1780 and 1790, still stands today, plastered, on the western edge of the estate. From the former moated castle , the approximately 4-meter-high round stump of the keep with an alliance coat of arms of those of Hanxleden and von Saldern , as well as small remains of walls, a vaulted cellar and parts of the moats are still preserved today.

location

The facility was located at 343 m above sea level in the Gersbach valley between Braunauer Berg (441 m) in the north, Orthberg (447 m) in the south-east, Haardtberg (437 m) in the west and Lennkopf (425 m) in the north-west. Immediately east of the present manor branches leading to Braunau county road K 44 still north of the in general east-west direction of Bergfreiheit to Bad Arolsen leading country road L 3296 from.

history

There was already a small castle on the site in the Middle Ages and a settlement created to protect it, but which had its own parish until the 13th century to the archpriesthood (deanship) Urf , then to the archpriesthood Bergheim (both in the archdeaconate Fritzlar ) , but probably in the 16th century desolate fell. The Lords of Löwenstein , who resided just under 5 km to the south-east of their Löwenstein Castle, had property and income lent to them in Gershausen by the Counts of Waldeck , probably because they were feudal men there ; It is known that Löw von Löwenstein received the Count's Waldecker castle money for “Gerhartshusin” in 1320 and that the von Löwenstein in 1506 received the previous Waldecker bullet for “Gerßhußen”. In 1530, when the hat to "Gerßhußen" was divided after a dispute between Waldeck and von Löwenstein, the place seems to have already been desolate. In 1580 Johann von Löwenstein sold his last property in Gershausen to Waldeck.

In 1614, the castle with the Feldmark came to Ludwig Wilhelm von Hanxleden , who gave Count Christian von Waldeck zu Wildungen an estate in Alt-Wildungen in exchange . They gave the count their Meierhöfe established near the castle and built the castle into a moated castle during the Thirty Years War , 1618–1648. The round keep was completed in 1637. The moat has been and is still fed by Gersbach, of about 1 arises km west and 2.5 km to the east, just before Bad Arolsen , just a few meters north of the junction with the country road L 3296 in the B 485 (Wildunger road), in the Wälzebach opens. Most of the trenches are still there today, and in two places they are widened to form small ponds to the north and south-west of the manor.

The first expansion of the castle to a small castle took place in 1692. Between 1780 and 1790, the von Hanxleden built the complex considerably. The main building at that time, which still exists today, was a half-timbered building with a half- hipped roof and a late Baroque front door. The round tower standing next to it was demolished in this phase in 1790 except for the stump that still exists today. Since then the property has been known as Gershäuser Hof , but also appears as Kershäuser Hof on historical maps of the Electorate of Hesse .

The gentlemen von Hanxleden remained the owners of the farm until 1881, when it passed to the von Elmendorf family and in 1903 to the Monstadt family.

Hereditary funeral

About 500 m west of the farm, in a 50 m × 50 m large grove in the middle of the field between the Gersbach and the L 3296, there is a hereditary burial of the Hanxleden zu Gershausen.

Rödernhof

The Gershäuser Mühle (Kershäuser Mühle), now known as Rödernhof, also belonged to the estate in the past.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Curtze said in 1850 in his history and description of the principality of Waldeck that the village was still inhabited in 1588, but that it was desolate when the ownership of von Hanxleden changed in 1614. ( Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: History and Description of the Principality of Waldeck: A Handbook for Friends of the Fatherland. Speyer, Arolsen, 1850, p. 661 ).
  2. ↑ In the Historisches Ortslexikon Hessen on-line these incidents are wrongly ascribed to the Gerzhausen desert near Waltersbrück in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis ( Gerzhausen, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis. Historisches Ortslexikon für Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)
  3. ^ Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: History and description of the principality of Waldeck: A manual for friends of the fatherland. Speyer, Arolsen, 1850, p. 661 .
  4. ^ Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: History and description of the principality of Waldeck: A manual for friends of the fatherland. Speyer, Arolsen, 1850, p. 661 .
  5. ^ "Electorate of Hesse 1840-1861 - 40th Kellerwald". Historical maps. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ↑ A branch of the Hanxleden zu Gershausen came through the marriage in 1783 of Sophie von Hoyningen called Huene (1754–1799), daughter of the Hessian general Johann Christoph von Huyn , who died in English service in the American War of Independence in 1780 , with the Waldeck major Friedrich Carl Ludwig von Hanxleden (1744-1815) and the associated acquisition of the Huyn'schen Stadtgut in Korbach to Korbach ( http://www.stammreihen.de/getperson.php?personID=I744919H&tree=tree1&PHPSESSID=f175460a027aa7f03f901253e6acf2aa ), where the descendants of this branch to Office and dignity came: Ludwig von Hanxleden was mayor of the city of Korbach from 1864 to 1884, his son Wilhelm held this office from 1898 to 1903.

Web links

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 , p. 118.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments, Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 2008, p. 121.
  • Gottfried Ganßauge, Walter Kramm, Wolfgang Medding (eds.): The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region. New episode Volume 4: Circle of Eder. 1938, pp. 333-334.