Old Castle (Breithardt)

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Old lock
Processing marks in the rock in the area of ​​the castle stables

Processing marks in the rock in the area of ​​the castle stables

Creation time : around 1400 AD
Castle type : Höhenburg in spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : unknown
Place: Hohenstein - Breithardt
Geographical location 50 ° 11 '38.6 "  N , 8 ° 4' 47.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '38.6 "  N , 8 ° 4' 47.2"  E
Old Castle (Hesse)
Old lock
The suspected wall-ditch system in the north of the plant

The old castle near the Taunus village of Hohenstein - Breithardt in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse is the presumed castle stables of a medieval fortification located in a spur . Whether there was a castle here is disputed.

Location and description

The facility is located about 1200 meters west of the center of Breithardt, near the wine mill , on a rock-based spur that extends into the valley. The western, southern and eastern slopes of the spur drop steeply into the valley. Only in the north is there a flat transition to the mountain. The spur itself has a plateau formation. A rock formation rises in the plateau, the top of which is also plateau-like. At the entrance to the castle site there is a formation of the terrain that can be interpreted as a wall-ditch system. There are clear traces of processing on the rock. There are several abandoned quarries in the forest near the Burgstall.

If there was a fortification here, a wooden structure is assumed, as there are no indications for a stone structure.

history

The historical classification of the fortification is not clear. It is conceivable that this could have been the seat of the Lords of Breithardt, which would mean that it was built before 1390. The Lords of Breithardt can be traced back to the year 1387 for the first time. Your share in Breithardt, however, fell to Nassau-Idstein in 1404 .

Another theory brings the fortification into the context of a feud between a branch of the Lords of Hohenstein and the Counts of Katzenelnbogen on the one hand and Nassau-Usingen on the other. The background to this feud was the ownership rights around Breithardt, which was given city rights in 1418. This would suggest an emergence after 1407.

A refusal of the attachment is not known. By 1457 at the latest, the complex was abandoned.

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Overview of the lower plateau at the Burgstall

Monument protection

The area of ​​the Burgstall is a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.

literature

  • Karl August von Cohausen : The ramparts, landweists u. old entrenchments of the administrative district Wiesbaden In: Nassauische Annalen 15 . No. 88.
  • HC Weinberger: Small chronicle of the place Hohenstein-Breithardt . Hohenstein-Breithardt 1998.
  • Hellmuth Gensicke: Parish and court of Breithardt . In: Nassau Annals 80 . Pp. 257-277.

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