Adolfseck Castle

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Adolfseck Castle
Partial view: Valentin Wagner: gate tower and hall of the castle with bay window, in front of it a table group under a linden tree, 1631.

Partial view: Valentin Wagner : gate tower and hall of the castle with bay window, in front of it a table group under a linden tree, 1631.

Creation time : around 1356
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains
Standing position : Count
Place: Adolfseck
Geographical location 50 ° 9 '31.8 "  N , 8 ° 4' 49.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '31.8 "  N , 8 ° 4' 49.4"  E
Height: 312  m above sea level NN
Adolfseck Castle (Hesse)
Adolfseck Castle

The castle Adolfseck is an Outbound Spur castle on 312  m above sea level. NN on the southern edge of the Bad Schwalbacher district Adolfseck on a mountain of the Aar . It is located in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse .

history

In a feudal letter from the Archbishop of Mainz, Gerlach von Nassau, dated February 18, 1356, it is mentioned that Count Adolf I von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein was just about to build Adolfseck Castle and that he would receive it as a fief from the Archbishop. Eleven years later, Adolfseck was granted town charter . After Adolf's death in 1370, the property passed to his son Count Walram IV, who handed the castle over to his brother Johann in 1386 . When he became Archbishop of Mainz in 1397 , it went back to Adolf II, his nephew and son of Adolf von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein .

In addition to securing the spa road , the Nassau castle also served to protect against the County of Katzenelnbogen , which owned Hohenstein Castle a few kilometers north .

After the Nassau-Idstein line died out in 1605, there was a legal dispute over the castle, which was decided in 1612 in favor of Kurmainz . However, the inferior heir Count von Nassau-Weilburg retained the power of disposal. During the Thirty Years War , the castle was probably besieged by the Adolfseck hill to the north . It was in poor condition as early as 1612, but in 1653 it was inhabited again. In 1679 only a "collapsed pile of stones" is left.

investment

The main castle , oval in plan, was probably of Romanesque origin and lies on a mountain spur . In the west, south and east there was originally a loop of the river Aar dammed up to form a lake . Access was through a gate tower in the fortification of the valley settlement, which was connected to the gate tower of the outer bailey by a straight path. East of the forecastle was a parallel to Aardurchstich moat guided way in a southerly direction to the gate tower of the core Burg. This oval main castle was about 55 m by 40 m in size and consisted of a polygonal curtain wall. A six to eight meter wide kennel was added in the middle of the 14th century, which merged into the neck ditch in the north .

Only small remains of walls and a fountain have survived from the castle , the oval main castle can only be seen in the plan . The entire facility is under monument protection.

Web links

Commons : Burg Adolfseck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Christian Daniel Vogel : History of the Adolfseck Castle . In: Nassau Annals . tape 3 , 1839, pp. 63-80 .
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 31.
  • Jens Friedhoff : Adolfseck Castle . A late medieval castle founded by the Counts of Nassau-Idstein. In: Marburg correspondence sheet on castle research . tape 4 , 2004, p. 23-35 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is his brother, Adolf I (1307-1370), Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein from 1344 to 1370, both from the Walram line . Both father was Gerlach I, Count of Nassau .
  2. ↑ Adolfseck at www.dilibri.de (PDF file 2.4 MB)
  3. ^ A b Castle Adolfseck, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 20, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.): Entire complex Burg In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse