Schönstein Castle
Schönstein Castle is located in the Schönstein district of Wissen ( Altenkirchen district , Rhineland-Palatinate ) and was first mentioned in a document in 1255. It is privately owned by the house Hatzfeld - Dönhoff .
history
The manors of Kirburg and Wissen originally belonged to the noblemen of Freusburg , who probably also built Schönstein Castle. Through the marriage of her heiress Aleidis von Molsberg to Eberhard von Arenberg , the possessions came to the Lords of Arenberg , Burgraves of Kurköln in 1176 . Eberhard and Aleidis' sons shared ownership of the victory. Heinrich received the property south of the river, including Schönstein, and continued to call himself "von Arenberg", Gerhard received the property to the north and called himself " von Wildenburg ". After the male line of Arenberg died out in 1280, the Archbishopric of Cologne moved in the parish Wissen left der Sieg as a settled fiefdom. From 1281 Sconensteyne Castle served the Archbishopric of Cologne as a pledge. The Wildenburger Land with the Wildenburg fell through the heir daughter Jutta von Wildenburg to her husband Johann von Hatzfeldt († after 1407).
In 1589, Hermann von Hatzfeld-Werther received Schönstein Castle as a tribute to his services from Kurköln. In the meantime, the castle had suffered a lot, in 1594 Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Werther put the maintenance costs at 16,000 guilders . During the Thirty Years' War , the castle was occupied, looted and set on fire by Swedish troops, but was rebuilt at the instigation of Wilhelm von Hatzfeld. Schönstein Castle has been the administrative seat of the Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg Chamber since 1912 . Today it is also the residence of the Graf von Dönhoff family .
architecture
The main building, which is almost triangular in plan, is a typical edge house castle , in which the buildings are grouped around an inner courtyard. From the Middle Ages to our time it has been built or restored, so that the building history is quite involved. The brick facades that were built at the end of the 16th century stand out clearly from the older north wing made of quarry stone. The baroque staircase in the south wing was built in the first half of the 18th century. The two-story wooden gallery on the east wing is interesting. The first floor was built in 1598, the second floor in 1623.
literature
- Jens Friedhoff : Structural maintenance and equipment of the castles Wildenburg and Schönstein in the late Middle Ages and in early modern times , in: Westerwald Landscape Museum (ed.): Castles and Palaces in the Westerwald. Historic residential buildings between Sieg, Lahn, Dill and Rhein, Hachenburg 1999, pp. 33–40.
Web links
- Description on "Urlaub-in-rheinland-pfalz.de"
- Schönstein Palace in the Alexander Duncker Collection. In: Central and State Library Berlin. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
- The Arenberg family and the dispute over Schönstein Castle , in the commemorative publication 600 years of St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft 1402 vom Heister zu Schönstein e. V. , pp. 23-25 (PDF; 5.8 MB); accessed on February 22, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Friedrich vd Trenck: Schönstein Castle at CASTLEWELT® ... At a glance. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 35.1 ″ N , 7 ° 45 ′ 2.5 ″ E