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Regierungsbezirk Kassel

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Habichtswald

Igelsburg Ruins

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    April 30, 2023

    The Igelsburg is a clearly prominent basalt hilltop 466 m high. There was a small castle on it. (see table).
    The ditch is still clearly visible.

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      July 11, 2018

      Somehow there is not really something to see here. Is unfortunately only a mound.

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        July 19, 2023

        It can no longer be clearly determined when the wooden palisade castle was built. It probably already served Charlemagne and his troops in the Saxon Wars (772 to 804) as a strategic outpost to secure the Frankish Empire.

        Several drawings[2] that are on a sign near the former castle indicate that the Igelsburg probably cannot be classified as a classic castle complex. Because within four ring walls, some of which can still be seen today, four houses can be seen on this sketch, two of them on the summit, the other two a little further down.

        Historians suspect that the barons of Dörnberg, first mentioned in 1100 in the Habichtswald area, had their seat in the castle. The wooden houses of the Igelsburg probably fell into disrepair as early as the 12th or 13th century.
        Source:
        de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burruine_Igelsburg

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          Location: Habichtswald, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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