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Gießen District

Wittelsberger Warte

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Gießen District

Wittelsberger Warte

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Wittelsberger Warte

Name: Wittelsberger Warte
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Location: Ebsdorfergrund, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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Heinz

October 12, 2015

The Wittelsberger waiting (also: Wittelsberger jump) in the Ebsdorfergrund district Wittelsberg (district Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse) is a medieval farm, which was built in 1431 by Landgrave Ludwig I to monitor the traffic on the Langen Hesse. It is the most well-known and best-preserved part of a Landwehr, which was to secure Hesse against the Catholic Kurmainz, and was an outpost of the Frauenberg Castle.

In the immediate southern neighborhood to the waiting room is the Protestant parish church, built in 1844 in the style of classicism, to the west, next to the control room and the church, is the cemetery.
The Wittelsberger Warte stands on a 257.8 m high [...] small basalt crest, which towers over the immediately adjacent settlement area of Wittelsberg by a maximum of 40 m [2], on the southeastern edge of the Amöneburg Basin. The center of the village is only 300 meters to the east.
The Landwehr, whose component was the Wittelsberger Warte was in the northeast to Roßdorf and in the southwest to Heskem, where once each waiting also stop.

The control room is a round tower surrounded by a wall-ditch system with vertical loopholes for the use of crossbows and handguns. The entrance was raised and could only be reached by ladders. Probably a palisade rose on the wall.

Today, a pergola from Hainbuchen leads from the village to the Wartturm and the church. The tower can not be entered, but also offers from its foot a good view over the Amöneburger basin, u. a. to Frauenberg and Amöneburg.
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Michel ✔

January 16, 2021

The Wittelsberger Warte is the landmark and coat of arms symbol of the Ebsdorfergrund community. Landgrave Ludwig I had the watch tower built on the Kirchberg in 1431, as the extreme boundary between the Hessian power and the neighboring Kurmainz. The Wittelsberg Church, built in 1844, together with the watch tower, offers the image of a knight's castle rising from the plain. A panoramic circular path invites you to enjoy a paradisiacal view and to linger at the foot of the town's landmark.

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Michel ✔

February 20, 2021

The tower cannot be entered, but there is also a good view of the Amöneburg Basin from its foot, including to Frauenberg and Amöneburg.

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Location: Ebsdorfergrund, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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