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.
Source: Wikipedia