スパンゲンベルクの絶景の山頂・トップ11

Unfortunately, the trail, the castle and the area around it are closed for the time being due to the danger of branches/trees breaking. 😕

Unfortunately, the trail, the castle and the area around it are closed for the time being due to the danger of branches/trees breaking. 😕

Old monument high above the town of Rotenburg an der Fulda. Rodenberg Castle Ruins

The approximately 20 m high tower is an absolute highlight. You have a gigantic all-round view from above. Definitely worth a visit.

The first lookout tower here on Mice Mountain was made of wood and was inaugurated in 1937. In 1955 it was closed because it had become dilapidated. In 1964 the old wooden tower was replaced by a 19m high steel lattice construction. Source: Info App Geonaturpark Frauholleland Great all-round view and: be sure to enter it in the summit book!

Nice view over the Frau Holle Land.

The Rodenberg castle ruins, also known as Rotenburg on the Old Tower, are the ruins of a hilltop castle on the Alter Turm mountain (418.1 m above sea level), which is covered with deciduous forest, mostly beech trees, about 2 km north-northeast of the old town of Rotenburg an der Fulda in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northern Hesse. The name of the town is probably derived from the former castle. The castle was first mentioned in documents in 1170, and in the years 1170, 1182 and 1197 the first Rotenburg castle guards, the ministerial family "von Rodenberc", are mentioned in connection with the castle. It is assumed that the Ludowingers, Landgraves of Thuringia, had the castle built after 1122, when the bailiwick of Hersfeld Abbey came into their possession from the Hessian Gisonen. However, it is possible that the Gisonen had already built the first fortified buildings on the mountain, which was built by Matthias Merian the Elder. Ä. Hausberg or Haußberg is still the name of the area today. After the death of the last Ludowinger, Heinrich Raspe IV, in 1247 and the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession (1247-1264), the Hessian property and the Ludowinger's bailiwick rights there fell to Heinrich I, the first Landgrave of Hesse. This also affected the Rodenberg bailiwick castle, with which the gradual alienation of Hersfeld territory to the Landgraves of Thuringia and, as their successors, the Landgraves of Hesse began. The castle was subsequently a Hessian fief of the families of Trott, Baumbach, Reichenbach, Berlepsch, Vullekopf and Hattenbach, who lived there as castle guards or sub-bailiwicks. The castle was destroyed in the Sterner War, the armed conflict that broke out in 1372 between the Knights' League of the Sterne and the Landgrave Hermann II of Hesse. In a reconciliation document from 1389, it was stipulated that the castle should no longer be fortified. It then fell into disrepair, but was probably still at least partially habitable until the 16th century, when it was owned by the Lords of Trott zu Schwarzenhasel. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgruine_Rodenberg

An imposing building with a good view... The way there is very varied 🍁🍃🍂🍃