Coraidelstein Castle
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 Coraidelstein Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Klotten Castle | |
| Creation time : | 960 (disputed) | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, hillside location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Kurtrierische Landesburg | |
| Place: | Clothes | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 10 '2.1 " N , 7 ° 12' 2.3" E | |
| Height: | 177 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Coraidelstein even castle Klotten called, is the ruin of a hillside castle at 177 m above sea level. NN on a hilltop on the Moselle above the municipality of Klotten in the district of Cochem-Zell in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
According to local tradition, the hilltop castle was founded by Count Palatine Hermann I in 960 . The first reliable mention of the Reichsburg Klotten dates from 1294, when the castle came to the Trier Archbishop. The transfer to Kurtrier was confirmed in 1346. A knight dynasty of the same name can be proven earlier. From 1410 to 1542 the lords of Winneburg had the castle as a fief. Then it came to division, in 1545 Heinrich von Hagen was enfeoffed with part of the castle, while the heirs of the Winneburgers, the house of Ulmen, the Höin of Hartenfels as well as Hugo and Gerlach Zandt von Merl also held shares in the castle. From 1654, Johann Eberhard von Kesselstatt had Klotten Castle as an Electorate of Trier and was then owned by the imperial barons of Kesselstatt until 1917.
The castle was inhabited until 1830 and at an unspecified time it became a ruin.
In 1917, Hans Harney (1877–1954), a former consul and former director of Deutsche Bank in Düsseldorf, acquired the castle from the Counts of Kesselstatt and had two houses built there. In 1952, his daughter Else Harney and her partner Wendelin Stahl set up a pottery workshop there. After her death in 1984, Wendelin Stahl ran the workshop there together with his former student Ayca Riedinger until his death in 2000.
description
The oldest part of the castle is the ruins of the Romanesque keep , which cannot be climbed due to a pronounced gap in the masonry. The residential building ( Palas ) was only built in the 16th century and added later.
Todays situation
The castle is now privately owned and cannot be visited.
literature
- Alfons Friderichs : Klotten and his story, Briedel 1997, 158/81; ISBN 3-929745-48-8 .
- Alfons Friderichs: Klotten on the Moselle with Coraidelstein Castle, Rheinisches Kunststättenheft issue 8/1969; 2nd revised edition 1980, issue 120; ISBN 3-88094-321-4 .
- Uschi Friderichs: From the Roman festivals to the pottery castle, in: Kreisjahrbuch Cochem-Zell, 1988, 237/45.
- Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich: "Blown by the showers of the past ..." Castles and palaces on the Moselle . 1st edition. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1926-4 , pp. 76-79.
- Alexander Thon: Between Empire, Rhineland Palatinate and Archdiocese of Trier - New Findings on the High Medieval History of the castles Bischofstein, Cochem and Klotten. In: Olaf Wagener (Ed.): The castles on the Mosel. Files from the 2nd international scientific conference in Oberfell on the Moselle. Görres, Koblenz 2007, ISBN 978-3-935690-59-1 , pp. 62-82.
Web links
Entry on Coraidelstein Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Poller / Wolfgang Todt: Moselsteig, p. 214, Neuwied 2017, ISBN 978-3-942779-21-0