Wetterburg (castle complex)

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Wetterburg
The Wetterburg (engraving by Wilhelm Dilich, 1605)

The Wetterburg (engraving by Wilhelm Dilich, 1605)

Creation time : 1306
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Ruin (core castle) ;
Preserved or essential parts preserved (outer bailey)
Standing position : Nobility, clergy
Construction: Stone, half-timbered (outer bailey)
Place: Wetterburg
Geographical location 51 ° 23 '11.1 "  N , 9 ° 3' 39.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '11.1 "  N , 9 ° 3' 39.3"  E
Height: 225  m above sea level NHN

The Wetterburg is the ruin of a spur castle at 225  m above sea level. NHN in the Wetterburg district of Bad Arolsen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in North Hesse . It is located on the northern outskirts of Wetterburg, about 300 meters north-northwest of Twistesee - dam , which was built from 1973 to 1978.

history

Count Heinrich IV von Waldeck had the castle built in 1306 on a rock spur between Aar and Twiste . The building was his reaction to the fact that in 1304 Volkmarsen and the Kugelsburg had been pledged to the Archbishop of Cologne , Heinrich II. Von Virneburg . The archbishop, in turn, felt provoked by the construction of the castle. There was a lawsuit and then another arbitration. On August 15, 1325 it was agreed to give the Archbishop of Cologne half of the Wetterburg as property. Both sides were not allowed to use the castle in a dispute with one another. Part of the castle was given to Cologne in 1327. In a further dispute in 1346 this solution was reinforced. The common ownership lasted until 1454. After that there were numerous changes of ownership, B. 1510, when Count Philip II and his son Philip III. The compatriot Friedrich von Twiste and his wife Else sold their part of the Wetterburg with all accessories, the village Külte , the farms Büllinghausen and Odelbecke etc. for 800 Rhenish gold guilders.

Götz von Berlichingen lay in wait for Count Philip II von Waldeck in March 1516 in front of the castle and kidnapped him for a ransom; this led to his second ostracism in 1518.

An engraving by Wilhelm Dilich from 1605 shows the castle with two residential buildings of almost the same size. The castle fell into disrepair in the 17th century and was eventually used as a quarry. It is said to have been in ruins as early as the Thirty Years' War . The gate tower collapsed in 1801 and was then removed.

The former outer bailey of the Wetterburg today

Ludwig Bechstein reported in the 19th century that, according to a legend, the castle was haunted by “a ghost in the form of a barrel of brandy”.

Around the outer bailey , a stone building built in 1576 and renewed after a fire in 1669, with a bay window and upper floor in half-timbering , the village of Wetterburg was formed as a former castle freedom . From 1977 to 1984, the monument conservator Tamara Leszner restored the building using traditional craft techniques and saved it from complete ruin. In 2012, parts of the framework were renewed during a renovation. In September 2016, the specialist workshop Drücker & Schnitger from Rietberg carried out further renovations on the framework and roof. The building has HEWI training rooms and a restaurant.

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. 135f.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 20-21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reigerlütersen, Waldeck-Frankenberg. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 9, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Nördliches Hessen (1960), p. 52
  3. ^ Rescuer of the Wetterburg died in: Frankenberger Zeitung , April 23, 2014.
  4. ^ Elmar Schulten: Monument wants to be looked after , Frankenberger Zeitung, July 30, 2012