Camberg Castle

Camberg Castle
Creation time :	around 1281
Castle type :	Höhenburg, location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Bad Camberg
Geographical location	50 ° 17 '52.1 "  N , 8 ° 16' 16.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '52.1 "  N , 8 ° 16' 16.2"  E
Height:	222  m above sea level NN

The castle Camberg is an Outbound hilltop castle on the site of the present town hall (Am Amthof 15) on the highest point of Bad Camberg at about 222  m above sea level. NN in the district of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse .

The castle was built at the time of Camberg's elevation to a minority by King Rudolf I around 1281 by Count Gerhard IV von Dietz, presumably on the site of an earlier royal court (Kaynburg) and occupied by castle men . After the Counts of Diez 1386 the castle came to Adolf of Nassau-Diez and after inheritance, versatile disputes, conciliation attempts and a truce and divisions was in the "Diezer Agreement" of 27 July 1564 County Diez finally of Nassau-Dillenburg and Kurtrier divided. Camberg went to Kurtrier.

In 1772 the castle was described as dilapidated and today's town hall was built on the castle site in the 19th century . There are no above-ground remains of the former castle complex.

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. 439.
• Georg Wilhelm Sante (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 4: Hessen (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 274). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1967, DNB 456882871 , pp. 75-76.

See also

• History of Camberg

Web links

• Camberg Castle, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of May 21, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 9, 2012 . 
• Entry on Castle Camberg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute