Die Burg Hesebach

Beschreibung

Towards Falscheid, there are several weekend houses with landscaped fish ponds, called "Neuhesebach". Here stood the Hesebach Castle near the first fish pond. Becherhofen wasteland is also mentioned here. It was located northeast at the front Weiherkopf. In 1843, the location of the floor 7, called Seiters, on the Heßbach, at the front Weiherkopf near the old castle road is given. Two field names are listed in the cadastral survey: "At Becherhofen" and "In Becherhofen and Heßbach". The first Saarwellinger Bannbuch from 1686 names the Becherhofen field with 5.5 acres of land at the ancillary site of the "Old Castle", called Heßbach. What is the story behind this often mentioned vanished castle? Around 1080, the village belonged to the Count Siegebert of Saarbrücken. He gave his territory to the nobles and knights of Saarbrücken and Rollingen. The small village of Wellingen subsequently had no more than 50 inhabitants. In 1222, a water castle in Saarwellingen was first mentioned, that stood in the middle of the village. Reiner and Boemund of Saarbrücken, both knights, had taken the village from the Saarbrücken Count Simon III as a fief. Each of the brothers built a castle. Reiner's castle was located at the upper course of the Heßbach in the so-called Kriechwies on the old castle path. It was also called Hesebach Castle (Hesbach, Hesburg). Ruins of the castle were still present in 1724 and are drawn on a map as "Old Castle in the Seiters". It was a water castle. The square building was surrounded by a moat that was connected to the Haßbach. In 1320, Knight Mersilis of Saarbrücken and his wife Hauwela handed over Hesebach to Archbishop Baldwin of Trier among others. In 1324, the Fraulautern Monastery left a meadow in Ober-Hesebach to Reinhold of Saarbrücken. His son Cuno Reinhold was called the Lord of Hesebach by the Archbishop of Trier in 1362. In 1395, Boemund of Ettenhofen, Lord of Honnfels, bequeathed 200 silver marks to his wife on the castle fief in Saarbrücken, specifically on Wellingen and Hesterbach. Not coincidentally, Pastor Schnetter wrote of the "Place Heßbach" in 1638, and the settlement was already mentioned in 1603. In older documents, it is often referred to as "Castle and Village Heßbach". Three families settled near the water castle. In 1343, they were "Conrad, called Brulic", "Syboden, called Rosenkranz" and his sister "Odilia". The settlement probably only consisted of two farms. These three people are the oldest known inhabitants of Saarwellingen by name. In 1718, there was mention of a small village, as the peasants transported hay from the meadows, they were referred to as parts of the dominion. "About the region, called Hoesbach, where formerly an old castle and a few houses stood, but after the castle had decayed, these parts belonged to the dominion alone". The castle was already destroyed around 1372, after about 150 years. At that time, the "people of Metz", when they returned from Hoisebach, had abducted two subjects from Roden. In 1435 and 1459, the villages and bailiwicks of Wellingen and Hesebach were still mentioned in old documents. The inhabitants of the small settlement presumably moved to (Saar)wellingen. In 1638, Peter Schnetter describes the area as follows: "The place called Hesebach from the castle, which the noble lords of Rollingen, called Giants, because they were big and strong people, have inhabited in the past and finally ruined, has a spring that still rises at the castle moat." About this spring, the Saarwellinger pastor wrote in 1833: "Nothing special is going on with the spring at Hosbach (Heßbach) now called Schlossborn, 200 steps away from the ruins of the castle. It was beautifully and extensively framed with wood several years ago, but now completely neglected, so that one hardly notices the spring anymore. Also, neither trout nor crayfish are found at it. As recently as last spring, several large foundation stones were raised when a meadow was being planted. So you can hardly see the place anymore." (24.08.1833). The spring was destroyed in the mid-20th century by the creation of fish ponds. They found shards of jugs dating back to the 14th century.