Rückingen moated castle

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Rückingen moated castle
View of the preserved castle building from the south

View of the preserved castle building from the south

Creation time : before 1248
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: partially preserved
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Erlensee- Rückingen
Geographical location 50 ° 9 '17.7 "  N , 8 ° 59' 39.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '17.7 "  N , 8 ° 59' 39.1"  E
Height: 115  m above sea level NHN
Rückingen moated castle (Hesse)
Rückingen moated castle

The Rückingen moated castle is the remainder of a medieval moated castle in Erlensee- Rückingen in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse . It is located north of the Kinzig near the center of Rückingen , a district of Erlensee. Today there is a local history museum in the moated castle, which is looked after by the Erlensee eV history association.

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1248 as castri Ruggingin . A castle stood here as early as the 10th century. The castle was a Mainz fief , first of the Lords of Brauneck, from 1463 of the Counts of Isenburg . As an after-fief , it was passed on to the closely related lords von Rückingen and lords von Rüdigheim .

Because the Ganerbe Johann von Rüdigheim worked as a robber baron , in particular raiding market ships on the Main and Kinzig, the castle was destroyed on February 17, 1405 under King Ruprecht along with other castles in the region such as Hüttelngesäß or Mömbris and was initially not allowed to be rebuilt. Johann had to swear primal feud and was only allowed to build an unpaved courtyard east of the castle, the so-called "Herrenhof", which was demolished in 1909. Only the men's barn and the so-called castle were preserved .

In the war of knights in 1522 the castle was attacked again by a princely coalition of Hesse , Palatinate and Trier and destroyed by Landgrave Philipp of Hesse , as Philipp von Rüdigheim was on the side of Franz von Sickingen . In 1569 the castle was rebuilt, which is also indicated by the year of the coat of arms of Eitel von Rückingen and the nobility of Roth von Burg-Schwalbach walled in over the gate.

During the Thirty Years' War , Rückingen was burned down by Croats, which may also have affected the castle. In 1666 the Lords of Rüdigheim died out. Several changes of ownership followed until the castle fell back to Isenburg as a completed fief in 1756. The castle has been privately owned since the 19th century and has been used as a farm since around 1860. During this time the trenches were also filled. After the acquisition by the Erlensee municipality, the local museum of local history opened in 1983.

View of the courtyard

investment

The castle has an almost rectangular shape. In the north of the complex, the presumed main building with a round corner tower and the circular wall still at a considerable height have been preserved. The substance visible today comes mainly from the first half of the 15th century. The southern part of the castle was later built over with a barn.

The castle was originally a moated castle . The former moats were directly connected to the Kinzig. Today they are filled in and took up about the space that corresponds to today's parking lot to the east, today's street to the north and the space in front of the castle to the west. A visible key notch still indicates the existence of the ditch, as it is far too low for today's soil level.

Smaller archaeological investigations in 1988 by the Hanau History Association and in 2001 revealed indications that the castle in a previous construction phase was larger than the part that is still visible today.

Local museum

In the local history museum, a large collection of local history exhibits from Rückingen and Langendiebach is shown. One department is dedicated to the nearby Rückingen Fort with finds from Roman times, including ceramic finds.

literature

  • Marcel Dehe: The excavations on the site of the former moated castle in Erlensee-Rückingen. In: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte 9.3 (1989), pp. 220–222.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II. Administrative region Darmstadt. (Ed .: Folkhard Cremer and Tobias Michael Wolf), 3rd edition, Munich 2008, p. 693f.
  • Peter Jüngling : 825 years of “Rückingen” and 750 years of moated castle in Rückingen. New magazine for Hanau history 1999/1 pp. 8–18.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 107f.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 393-394.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Reimer : Hessisches Urkundenbuch. Section 2, document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Vol. 1. 767-1300. Publications from the royal Prussian state archives, Hirzel, Leipzig 1891, No. 252.
  2. ↑ Dehe 221.
  3. ↑ a b c Hessendienst, p. 107.
  4. ↑ a b c Dehio, pp. 693-694.

Web links

Commons : Wasserburg Rückingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files