Dagstuhl Castle
| Dagstuhl Castle | ||
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 The Dagstuhl castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | around 1270 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Gentry | |
| Place: | Dagstuhl | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 31 '52 " N , 6 ° 53' 47" E | |
| Height: | 332.1 m above sea level NN | |
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The Dagstuhl Castle is the ruins of a medieval hilltop castle at 332.1 m above sea level. NN in Dagstuhl , a district of the Saarland community of Wadern in the Merzig-Wadern district . The hilltop castle was built in the 13th century and underwent several alterations in the course of its history before it was laid down in the 18th century. The listed ruin can be visited free of charge since 2006.
history
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The castle, first mentioned in 1290, was built around 1270 by the knight Boemund von Saarbrücken. It served as an outpost of Kurtrier against the Lords of Schwarzenberg and stood at the strategically important confluence of the Wadrill and Löster in the Prims .
When the knight dynasty died out in the 14th century, the castle came to the families of the four heir daughters, namely the lords of Fleckenstein , Brücken, Kriechingen and Rollingen , in 1375 , and thus became a Ganerbeburg . In 1404 it was conquered in a feud by Nikolaus Vogt von Hunolstein , before it was rebuilt in the period from 1466 to 1472.
The Trier elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern bought the complex together with the rulers in the first third of the 17th century from the Ganerbe and had it converted into the seat of the family entourage he founded . So was for example Palas rebuilt. In 1696 the castle came to the family of the Counts of Oettingen- Baldern by marriage .
The complex survived the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries largely unscathed. In 1674 it served the French Marshal Turenne and his troops as winter quarters. In 1717, however, their fortifications were destroyed at the insistence of France. At that time the castle was in the trusteeship of the Archbishop of Trier , Franz Georg von Schönborn , who had it administered by Wolfgang Anton von Langemantel. In the further course of the 18th century, the buildings were demolished from 1726 to 1759 and fell into disrepair. As a quarry, they supplied the building material for Dagstuhl Castle , which was built in 1760 by Count Joseph Anton von Oettingen-Sötern as the new family seat in Dagstuhl.
In the 1980s, the foundations were exposed, so that the floor plan of the castle is recognizable again today. In addition, systematic excavation campaigns have been taking place since 1999 under the supervision of the State Monuments Office of Saarland .
investment
The approximately 300-meter-long castle complex consists of the ruins of a core castle , a front bailey to the north and a southern bailey . Its most impressive component is the partially torn castle tower. Otherwise only the foundation walls have been preserved. Two modern wooden bridges lead over neck ditches that separate the outer bailey from the rest of the mountain.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
- Dittmar Lauer : The Dagstuhl Castle. A contribution to their building history. In: Hochwälder Geschichtsblätter. Volume 1, No. 2, 1989, pp. 35-43.
- Friedrich Toepfer: Supplements VI. The Lords of Grimburg and von Dagstuhl . In: ders. (Ed.): Document book for the history of the royal and baronial house of the Voegte von Hunolstein , Vol. I. Jacob Zeiser, Nuremberg 1866, pp. 312-314 ( Google Books )
- Willy Weinen: The excavations at Dagstuhl Castle. In: Verein für Heimatkunde Wadern e. V. (Ed.): Dagstuhler Geschichtsbilder: 700 years of Dagstuhl, 225 years of market rights in Wadern, 100 years of Countess Oktavie (1811–1890). Wadern, 1990, pp. 255-266, 288.
- Joachim Zeune : Castle research in Saarland using the example of Dagstuhl Castle. In: Castles and Palaces . Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation. Volume 50, No. 2, 2009, ISSN 0007-6201 , pp. 87-94, doi: 10.11588 / bus.2009.2.48671 .
- Dieter Vollmann: Oven ceramics of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period from Dagstuhl Castle in Saarland. In: Archaeologia Mosellana. Volume 8, 2012, pp. 155-224 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Weispfennig on Dagstuhl in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Dagstuhl castle ruins
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information board for the forest and history trail around the Dagstuhl castle ruins
- ↑ a b Information board at the castle ruins
- ^ Dagstuhl Castle / Wadern-Dagstuhl - Saarland ( Memento from June 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), as of January 19, 2009.