Anebos Castle
| Anebos Castle | ||
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 Castle rocks of Anebos Castle (2012) |
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| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rock castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, ministerials | |
| Place: | Leinsweiler | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 11 '33.6 " N , 7 ° 58' 55.5" E | |
| Height: | 480 m above sea level NHN | |
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Anebos Castle / 'anəboːs / is the ruin of a medieval rock castle in the Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) above the small town of Annweiler in southern Palatinate .
geography
The hilltop castle is located on the forest boundary of the local community Leinsweiler at a height of about 480 m on the crest of one of the typical rounded rocky mountains of the Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called. The castle mountain is popularly called Dickkopf . Anebos Castle and its sister castles Trifels and Scharfenberg are known as the Trifelsgruppe and are considered the landmark of Annweiler, which extends below in the valley of the Queich . The castle stables Fensterfels and Has are also in the immediate vicinity .
investment
From the castle, the name of which is perhaps derived from “anvil”, only a few remains of the wall and a filter cistern exist today , which was incorrectly called the “ rock cellar ” before recent excavations . There are also traces of processing on the castle rock.
history
The construction of the castle is dated to the beginning of the 12th century based on the existing building evidence. The castle was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Anebos , who can only be traced for a short time from the last decade of the 12th century to the middle of the 13th century. They were Reich ministerials to whom the feudal right to the castle had been transferred.
1194 appeared in the entourage of Emperor Henry VI. a Marshal Eberhard von Anebos on his Italian march . His brother Heinrich was named as the owner of the Marshal's Office from 1196. In 1234, 1250 and 1252 there is a documentary evidence of Eliza von Anebos , who is finally referred to as the widow of a marshal. In the middle of the 13th century, the lords of Anebos seem to have died out, as further evidence about this family is missing.
Presumably through succession, the feudal right to the castle came to the family of the Reichstruchsessen Philipp I. von Falkenstein . His wife Isengard handed the castle over to King Konrad IV in 1246. This is an indication that the fief fell back to the crown because the male line of the family had finally expired. The castle was last mentioned in a document from 1266.
The excavations carried out since 2000 indicate that the castle was inhabited until the 14th century and was then abandoned. So far, there is no evidence of destruction by fighting.
According to another representation, the result of excavations that were carried out from 2001 onwards is that the castle can be captured on the basis of archaeological finds from the 11th to 13th centuries, while the historical sources only document the late period of the castle.
literature
- Jürgen Keddigkeit (Ed.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon . tape I . Kaiserslautern 1999, ISBN 3-927754-18-8 , pp. 127-131 .
- Ludwig Petry (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 5: Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 275). 3rd revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-27503-1 .
Web links
- Entry by Jens Friedhoff and Dieter Barz about Castle Anebos in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Pictures of Anebos Castle on Burgenparadies.de
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jochen Braselmann: 10 years of excavations at Anebos. Bindersbacher Customs e. V., May 27, 2011, accessed September 15, 2016 .