Kammerburg

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Kammerburg
Inner bering

Inner bering

Creation time : around 1295
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Clericals, lower nobility
Place: Lorch
Geographical location 50 ° 4 '57.3 "  N , 7 ° 52' 37.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '57.3 "  N , 7 ° 52' 37.7"  E
Height: 192.8  m above sea level NN
Kammerburg (Hesse)
Kammerburg

The Kammerburg is the ruin of a spur castle northeast of the city of Lorch in the Middle Rhine Valley in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse .

Geographical location

The ruins of the castle are located in the easternmost corner of the Lorch district between the Wispertal and the Werkerbachtal on a ridge at 192.8  m above sea level. NN in a spur to the southeast over the Wisperstrasse. Rheinberg Castle is just 500 meters to the north-west and 75 meters higher . Directly below the northeast side of the Kammerburg lies the Gasthaus zur Kammerburg in the valley and the confluence of the district road K 625 coming from Wollmanders into the Wisperstrasse.

history

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1304 and probably built around 1295 by the archbishopric of Mainz as a siege castle against Rheinberg Castle.

From 1304, the knight Johann von Rheinberg on behalf of the Trier Archbishop was eight years Burgmann at the castle. In the late Middle Ages, the castle was often used by the ore monastery of Mainz as a pledge and protected the Rheingau Gebück , a Landwehr that crossed the Wisper Valley here.

In the 15th century the castle lost its strategic importance, was only occupied by a farmhand in 1483 , and was abandoned as a fortification before 1500 , when it was probably already uninhabitable.

In the 16th century the ruinous castle complex came into the possession of the noble families von Rüdesheim , Blankenheim and the Count Palatine , was owned by the von Zwierlein family from Geisenheim from the beginning of the 19th century and later became part of the Haniel shipping family .

investment

View of the ruin

Only small remains of a 10 by 11 meter inner ring with a shield wall facing the Rheinberg Castle in the north and a keep with a gate have survived. In the west and south of the Bering there was probably an open kennel .

In the 1960s, a residential house was built over the outer bailey area . The ruin is privately owned and cannot be visited.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notes from the city archive 151 contributions to the history of the city of Rüdesheim. Ed. City archivist Rolf Göttert

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications . 3rd edition, Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 491-492.
  • Ferdinand Luthmer : The architectural and art monuments of the Rheingau . Frankfurt a. M., 1907
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 241.

Web links

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