Blumenstein Castle (Palatinate)
| Blumenstein Castle | ||
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 Blumenstein castle ruins in winter |
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| Alternative name (s): | The flower stone | |
| Creation time : | around 1260 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Schoenau (Palatinate) | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 3 '27.2 " N , 7 ° 42' 49.5" E | |
| Height: | 361 m above sea level NHN | |
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Blumenstein Castle , mostly just called the Blumenstein , is the ruin of a rock castle in the southern Palatinate Forest , in the German part of Wasgau ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). Only small remains of the wall have survived from the castle.
Geographical location
The castle ruin lies on the forest area of the community of Schönau ( district of Südwestpfalz ) at an altitude of 361 m . District road 43 runs 500 m northeast of the castle from Schönau via Petersbächel to Ludwigswinkel , 500 m southwest the border with French Alsace .
history
middle Ages
When and by whom the castle was built is not known. Earlier assumptions that the castle was built by a Hessian noble family von Blumenstein have now proven to be wrong.
The oldest surviving documentary mention in connection with the knight Anselm von Batzendorf zu Blumenstein comes from the year 1332 . In 1347, after a feud with the Lords of Fleckenstein , the knights were driven from their castle.
From around 1350 the Counts of Zweibrücken received a quarter of the castle after negotiations, three quarters went to the Lords of Dahn . The Zweibrücker share in the castle Blumenstein was assigned to the Zweibrücker Amt Lemberg der Grafschaft and there to the Amtsschultheißerei Obersteinbach . The Lemberg office then belonged to the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch .
In 1356 there was a dispute between the Lords of Dahn and the Zweibrücken bailiff, Knight Heinrich von Selbach . The Lords of Dahn had to pay him 60 guilders .
Modern times
The castle was probably destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 . The associated lands and rights were further shared by Dahn and Zweibrücken-Bitsch. The Zweibrücken share passed through the following inheritance in the following centuries: Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) died in 1570 as the last male member of his family. The Lemberg office was inherited by his daughter, Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch , who was married to the (heir) Count Philipp (V) von Hanau-Lichtenberg . Her father-in-law, Count Philipp IV. Von Hanau-Lichtenberg , gave the strict Roman Catholic Duke Karl III by immediately introducing the Lutheran creed . of Lorraine, the opportunity to intervene militarily, as the latter had suzerainty over the Bitsch rule, which was also part of the inheritance . In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip IV was unable to cope with the overwhelming power of Lorraine, he chose the legal route. In the subsequent process before the Imperial Court of Justice, Lorraine was able to prevail with regard to the Bitsch rule, while the Lemberg office - and thus the Zweibrücker share in Blumenstein Castle - was awarded to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg .
In 1707, the flower stone was poorly repaired and used as a refuge . 1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there. In the course of the French Revolution , the part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg on the left bank of the Rhine - and with it the Obersteinbach office and the now Hessian share of the Blumenstein Castle - fell to France in 1794. After the Wars of Liberation , Blumenstein Castle came to the Bavarian Rhine District .
investment
The flower stone is a small castle complex that consists of three parts. The upper and middle parts lie on a narrow rock and can be reached via rock stairs. Little remains of the lower part of the castle.
literature
- Marco Bollheimer: Rock castles in the Wasgau – Northern Vosges castle paradise . 3. Edition. Karlsruhe 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814506-0-6 , pp. 84 f .
- Walter Herrmann: On red rock . A guide to the most beautiful castles in the Palatinate and Alsatian Wasgau. G. Braun Buchverlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2004, ISBN 3-7650-8286-4 , p. 24-27 .
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Alexander Thon, Karl Scherer, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : AE . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2003, ISBN 3-927754-51-X , p. 289-299 .
- Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
- Alexander Thon (Ed.): ... like a banned, inaccessible magic castle . Castles in the southern Palatinate. 2nd Edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1570-5 , p. 34-37 .
Web links
- Entry on Castle Blumenstein in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Blumenstein Castle on burgenparadies.de