Astheim Bohemian Castle

Astheim Bohemian Castle
Alternative name (s):	Bömelburg, Burgwörth, Behemischpforte (1373), Beheimsfurt (1376)
Creation time :	14th Century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Trebur - Astheim
Geographical location	49 ° 56 '44 " N , 8 ° 21' 16.5" E Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '44 " N , 8 ° 21' 16.5" E
Height:	84 m above sea level NN

The Bohemian Castle Astheim , also called Bömelburg and Burgwörth before 1714 , is an abandoned Niederungsburg on the Upper Rhine about two kilometers northwest of the Astheim district of the Trebur municipality in the Groß-Gerau district in Hesse . It is interpreted as a customs post, since the Langenau arm of the Rhine was still a shipping route in the late Middle Ages. At the same time, it presumably served to secure imperial property and the city of Frankfurt against the efforts of the Archbishops of Mainz to gain employment .

location

Today the castle is located on the east bank of the oxbow lake between Trebur and Ginsheim . The old arm of the river, formerly known as the Langenauer Rhein or the little Rhine , is now recorded in the maps as the Ginsheimer Altrhein . The castle was in the Astheim district in the Gewann das Langwörth . To the east of it in the Gewann The large Engelswiese and Der Engelsand lay the Burgwiesen , the castle's property, up to the Schwarzbach .

history

Possible links to the found Roman Schiffslände burgus that with the Lohr's Reich Urbar called Askemundestein is identified, a few meters north on the Black river mouth in the day Ginsheimer Altrhein called Rhein-old arm are not investigated until now.

The castle was probably built in the 14th century (around 1370) by the Oppenheimer Reichsschultheißen Heinz zum Junge on the orders of Emperor Charles IV (also King of Bohemia ) as a permanent house or tower with a moat , which is also indicated in a document from the city of Frankfurt from 1373 . Probably at the beginning of the 15th century, the castle came into the possession of the archbishopric of Mainz . It was then destroyed in the middle of the 15th century.

In 1657 the Burgwörth (the castle stable ) was bought by Johann Christian Freiherr von Boineburg.

After the castle was described in the 17th century as old, crumbled masonry on a floodplain , which went into the Rhine , the castle stable shows only an old loading ramp made of limestone and the remains of a moat (possibly a ring ditch ) after 1794 when the water is low .

literature

Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 . P. 511.
Norbert Hämel: People once drove out “to the Burk”: the Bohemian Castle of Astheim. In: Astheim - history and stories. Published by the Organizing Committee 1150 Years Astheim, Trebur 1999, ISBN 3-923418-05-1 , p. 75.

Web links

Bohemian Castle (Astheim), Groß-Gerau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
The Bohemian Castle at tribur.de
News from the town clerk: A Bohemian castle in Ginsheim? No joke!

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hans-Benno Hauf: News from the town clerk: A Bohemian castle in Ginsheim? No joke! ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article on the website of the city of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg; accessed on August 1, 2018 @1@ 2

^ Roland Pfuhl: Castle names of the Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Etmologies and Typology , In: Palatinate Castle Research: Status and Perspectives , Papers of the Conference of the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Historical Seminar of the University of Koblenz-Landau , Campus Landau; Landau 2008, online document, p. 565 (PDF document, 3 MB); accessed: August 1, 2018

^ Johann Friedrich Böhmer , Friedrich Lau: Codex diplomaticus Moenofrancofurtanus = document book of the imperial city of Frankfurt vol. 1. 794-1314. Unchangeable Reprint of the Frankfurt 1901 edition, Baer, Frankfurt am Main 1970, p. 736.

^ Bohemian Castle (Astheim), Groß-Gerau district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 18, 2013 .

[HHH-1] Hans-Benno Hauf: News from the town clerk: A Bohemian castle in Ginsheim? No joke! ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article on the website of the city of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg; accessed on August 1, 2018 @1@ 2

[2] Roland Pfuhl: Castle names of the Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Etmologies and Typology , In: Palatinate Castle Research: Status and Perspectives , Papers of the Conference of the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Historical Seminar of the University of Koblenz-Landau , Campus Landau; Landau 2008, online document, p. 565 (PDF document, 3 MB); accessed: August 1, 2018

[3] Johann Friedrich Böhmer , Friedrich Lau: Codex diplomaticus Moenofrancofurtanus = document book of the imperial city of Frankfurt vol. 1. 794-1314. Unchangeable Reprint of the Frankfurt 1901 edition, Baer, Frankfurt am Main 1970, p. 736.

[4] Bohemian Castle (Astheim), Groß-Gerau district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 18, 2013 .