Berneburg residential tower
| Berneburg residential tower | ||
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 The five-storey residential tower made of solid masonry and the half-timbered house dating back to 1656. |
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| Alternative name (s): | Bower | |
| Creation time : | Mid to late 14th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | preserved, used for agriculture | |
| Standing position : | Lower nobility | |
| Construction: | stone | |
| Place: | Sontra - Berneburg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 3 '29.6 " N , 9 ° 53' 2.8" E | |
| Height: | 250 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Berneburg residential tower is now a listed secular building in Berneburg , a district of Sontra in the Werra-Meißner district ( Hesse ). It is a fine example of a bower . The residential tower is now located at the corner of two half-timbered buildings adjoining the tower at right angles.
history
The residential tower was probably built shortly before or after 1385, the year of the alleged destruction (in the Hessian-Thuringian War of Succession) of the original ancestral castle of those of Berneburg , which is said to have been on a rocky hill behind the town, but could never be located or documented. The residential tower, which by its originally existing moat as tower castle can be considered is 1432 first mentioned as the feudal handover to the Knights Eghart of Röhrenfurt and Hermann Riedesel by Hermann of Berneburg is recorded in writing. In 1469 the Lords of Berneburg died out. In 1518 the von Hundelshausen and the von Biedenfeld are proven to be lords of the castle in equal parts. In 1527, the year the St. Cyriaci monastery in Eschwege , who had been lords of the town of Berneburg until then, was abolished, the von Biedenfeld with the Stein zum Löwenstein are now named as Hessian fiefs. They are considered to be the last residents of the bower. It finally lost its importance as a fortification in the 17th century and became part of a farm.
description
The residential tower has a side length of 10 m × 10 m. In the lower area it has a wall thickness of about 1.50 m. Its height to the roof approach over all five floors is about 15 m. The walls on the top floor of the five-story building are structured with coupled window openings. The high entrance is on the north side. The residential tower has a hipped tile roof.
A half-timbered house , which was built for Hans Ernst von Biedenfeld in 1656 , adjoins the tower .
The former moat has been completely leveled, but can still be seen as a slight trace in the terrain between the property and the Sontra River .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , Hessen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 1966
- Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 169 f. (with picture)
- Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 333.
- Eduard Brauns: The Kemenate in Berneburg. In: Hessischer Gebirgsbote, Vol. 75 (1974), pp. 8-9
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann zu Berneburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Testimony to Berneburg's great times. In: sontra.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckard von Röhrenfurth chastises his wife. Regesta of the Landgraves of Hesse (as of September 12, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 11, 2013 .
- ↑ in Knappe p. 170 the year 1431 is incorrectly mentioned.
- ^ Berneburg, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of May 27, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Knappe, p. 170
- ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 75 .
- ↑ in SBaM p. 333 incorrectly stated as “Bielenfeld”.
- ↑ size of the residential tower