Old Castle (Frankfurt-Praunheim)

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Old castle
The last remnant of the abandoned castle: the gate to the Praunheim castle courtyard, sold to Kronberg in 1911. The bollards or wheel deflectors on both sides of the large castle gate are still clearly visible.

The last remnant of the abandoned castle: the gate to the Praunheim castle courtyard, sold to Kronberg in 1911. The bollards or wheel deflectors on both sides of the large castle gate are still clearly visible.

Creation time : unknown
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: gone , the location is still recognizable
Standing position : gentry
Construction: stone
Place: Frankfurt am Main - Praunheim
Geographical location 50 ° 9 '1.2 "  N , 8 ° 37' 20.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '1.2 "  N , 8 ° 37' 20.5"  E
Height: 101  m above sea level NN
Alte Burg (districts of Frankfurt am Main)
Old castle

The Old Castle was one of a Carolingian royal court emerged medieval castle of the Lords of Praunheim ( younger line ) in the middle of Praunheim , now a district of Frankfurt .

location

The location of the castle on a sketch map depicting Praunheim around 1775.

The area comprised the Praunheimer Church, first mentioned in 1132, as the southern end. The Graebestraße to today's street "An der Praunheimer Mühle" delimited the facility in an east-west direction. The streets " Alt-Praunheim " and "In der Römerstadt" formed the northern boundary. It included the site of today's church and is located after the confluence of the Steinbach and the Mühlgraben , which it divides into the Nidda, in the original area of ​​origin of the old Praunheim.

history

The Outbound local castle was built from a former royal court in Praunheim.

This has been occupied in pago Nitinsae since 804 . Before 1323, probably at the beginning / middle of the 12th century, the place and castle went to the Lords of Praunheim as a fiefdom, who took the former royal court as their castle seat and became the fiefdom of the Lords of Praunheim (younger line) .

The parish rights, on the other hand, were given to the cathedral monastery of St. Martin by the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken as early as 1132 after taking possession . In 1323 the Praunheimers lost their imperial fief. Ludwig the Bavarian awarded it to the Counts of Hanau for a seizure solution . Now received as a fiefdom from Hanau, the Hanau residents took over the fiefdom in 1356 after the emperor had raised the pledge to 500 guilders. From 1412 Kurmainz became half owned, in 1452 Mainz sold its share of the village and castle to the Kronberg family . This share was estimated at 400 guilders on repurchase . Until 1470, the Praunheimers still owned a quarter of the shares in the castle, Hohem Haus as well as the village and court . At the latest with the partitions, the castle lost its function as ancestral seat. With the condominium owners, the division inevitably went hand in hand, which gradually led to the demolition or conversion of the parts of the castle. As early as 1441, the later seat of another Praunheim line, the Klettenburg , is documented, the land of which was transferred to Henne von Praunheim as a fief in 1381 by King Wenzel of Luxembourg for the sake of service and loyalty . By this time at the latest, the Praunheimsche Junkernhof in front of the Old Castle towards the Nidda will have been built.

A school building at today's Alt-Praunheim 46 street is occupied until 1880. There was also a goat market on this corner until 1900. Then there was a gas station at this point. The last remnant of the abandoned castle is the old double gate to the courtyard, which was sold to Kronberg in 1911 .

description

From the sales letters at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War , the castle, as by a high wall with battlements surrounded described. In addition to the noble house , a mansion or palace with vaulted cellar, the area comprised a castle garden, the old stone floor , a large abrasion and a draw well . The church was part of the castle area, but was its own walled-in area, the tithe barn and the Junkernhof (Stockhof) adjoining it at that time were located south of it but outside the castle grounds. The tithe was not due to the Praunheimers, but went to the St. Leonhardsstift . From 1318 to 1803 this also had the right of patronage for the church enclosed in the castle area. The east adjacent mill between Steinbach and Nidda must have been owned by the castle, so it was part of the fiefdom of the Praunheimers, as it is referred to in the sales deeds of the Middle Ages as "lies on manorial land" and later always rent to the owners of the Castle area had to pay.

The courtyard gate on the corner of Alt-Praunheim / Graebestrasse was sold to Kronberg Castle in 1911 , but was still standing until about 1976. From the castle, only parts of the southern castle walls around the church to the Praunheimer tithe barn and the later mansion , the so-called Junkerhof received.

The old castle is not to be confused with the Klettenburg located further north outside the town center , to which street names ( Augustenburgstraße , Am alten Schloß , Im Burgfeld ) still refer .

  • Goat market in Praunheim around 1900 in the old castle courtyard, corner of Graebestraße / Alt Praunheim

  • Burgtor zu Praunheim with a view of the church, the half-timbered building following the castle gate has the castle wall as the outer wall, the former old schoolhouse behind it (until 1755) has already been replaced by a newer or converted house and is already on the specially bricked-up church site.

  • The tithe barn. On the right next to it the later manor of the Junkernhof (Stockhof) of the Praunheimer. On the left the remains of the south-eastern wall of the castle area, here to the separately demarcated area of ​​today's Protestant Church of the Resurrection of Praunheim

literature

  • Alfred Hansmann: 1200 years of Praunheim. 804-2004. A journey into Praunheim's past , Pollinger Schnelldruck, publisher: Vereinsring Praunheim e. V. and A. Hansmann, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-00-013189-2 .
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 402f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hansmann: 1200 years of Praunheim. 804-2004. A journey into Praunheim's past , p. 46
  2. ↑ a b c d e Praunheim, City of Frankfurt am Main. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of October 26, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Hansmann: 1200 years of Praunheim. 804-2004. A journey into Praunheim's past , pp. 61–62

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