Hunnesrück Castle
Amtsberge in Dassel with castle ruins Hunnesrück at mid- elevation
The Hunnesrück castle was built in a 13th century hilltop castle, whose ruins residues are located in the mountains near Dassel office in the district of Northeim in southern Lower Saxony.
The castle was built in the 13th century and 1521 destroyed during the Hildesheim pin feud. Are preserved trench, wall and wall residues.
Geographical location
The ruins Hunnesrück located in the southern part of the official Mountains ( max 392.2 m above sea level. NN ) 2.3 km north of Dassel, or about 1.4 km west- southwest of the Good Hunnesrück. You are on a wooded spur that a 317 m above sea level. NN high elevation of the rock of the lower Muschelkalk is east of Spüligbachtals.
Specifications
The multi- tiered through defenses castle was due to the surrounding steep wastes, especially to the west, in a strategic position. Until the introduction of fire guns, it was considered impregnable. From this lofty position to look at the Dasseler flange and in the marrow Oldendorfer pelvis to the resin systems is possible.
From today's Wall and wall residues reveals that the castle had a deeper Pros and an elevated main castle, which was surrounded by a curtain wall. In the gate area of the bailey was a circular Vorturm, which guarded the entrance. In the main castle was a large, rectangular residential tower. The keep was a round tower. In the courtyard there was a chapel and a cistern. For the most part, there was a double wall system, such as Airborne Laser Scanning illustrate investigations.
Castle ruins Hunnesrück ( enlarged copy of a drawing of Krabbe 1603) and Map
Ruins of the castle
History
The counts of Dassel possessed at its headquarters Dassel, after which they named themselves, initially a castle on Castle Hill Ellenser the forest south of the Ilme. Then in 1596 John had Letzner who knew the area from his Pastorentätikgeit in Lüthorst, pointed out in his chronicle. How Airborne laser scanning investigation in 2009 revealed, these were to ene slope castle, the outer rampart is partially visible today. They also had a fortified courtyard in the old town today Dassel. The first castle of the Counts is far neither documented nor recorded archaeologically. A mention in a charter of Henry Bishop in 1357 of two castles in Dassel leaves open whether so that the Court is meant in the meantime had become the town site or the old hillside castle ( sloten to hundesrughe un to Dasse ).
For these reasons, the north of the castle located Ilme Hunnesrück is the second castle of the Counts at its headquarters Dassel. The need for construction of a hilltop castle resulted from the fact that style and location were overhauled the dated in the Early Middle Ages outgoing predecessor system. The Hunnesrück castle was built by the Count of Dassel in the 13th century after the division of the county of Dassel. In medieval documents it is referred to as de Hundesrügge. It was first mentioned in 1310 when it was sold by Simon von Dassel to the Bishop Siegfried von Hildesheim. His successor, they had renovated.
From 1310 to 1523 Dassel was an exclave of the Bishopric of Hildesheim. The Hunnesrück castle was the only castle in this enclave. It was administered at this time of various noble families, and was the seat of the Office Vogts. 1367 she presented to the Bishop Gerhard von Berg a contingent of knights for the Battle of Dinklar and so contributed to his victory.
During the Hildesheim pin feud 1521 troops of the Dukes Eric I attracted to Calenberg and Henry the Younger of Wolfenbüttel before the castle. You could shoot them with heavy guns from the adjacent ridge Hatop out, and took it. Your architectural remains were 1527-1530 reused in the construction of Erichsburg. 1603 recorded John crab as an eyewitness to the former state he ruin in his map of the Solling one. The Erichsburg was about 3 km to the east in a marshy lowlands by Duke Erich I. Today there from the castle Hunnesrück only a few ruins, but their walls still have an enormous height.