Diemerstein Castle
| Diemerstein Castle | ||
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 Diemerstein Castle 2011 |
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| Creation time : | before 1216 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Free nobles | |
| Place: | Frankenstein , Diemerstein district | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 26 '39.5 " N , 7 ° 57' 42.7" E | |
| Height: | 280 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Diemerstein is the ruin of a Spur castle on 280 m above sea level. NN in the Glasbachtal at the end of a long ridge on a steeply sloping rock plateau in the Diemerstein district of the Frankenstein municipality in the Palatinate in Rhineland-Palatinate .
The castle hill was laid out as a landscape garden in the 18th century. However, this is only partially recognizable. Above the castle there is a small open-air stage, on which only the play German Destiny - the events in the castle and country house Diemerstein by Pastor Johann Jakob Hamm, last time in 1986, was performed.
history
The exact date of construction and the name of the builder of the Diemerstein are unknown. In 1216, Rudegar von Dimarstein was the first to name a nobleman who named himself after the castle. In 1217, Nebelung and Rudiger von Dymerstein were mentioned, who were involved in disputes with the Otterberg monastery over the interest of the Sendelborn farm . Nebelung von Dymerstein also had the right of patronage for the church in Hochspeyer . In 1221 "Nebelung von Dimarstein" and "Berthold von Dyrmstein" handed it over to the Bishop of Worms .
In 1250, the Raugrafen were named as the owners of the Diemerstein, who appointed the knight Gundelmann as a castle man . There are no known documents about the taking. At that time, a village did not belong to the castle, but only an extensive forest area . In 1362 or 1380 the Diemerstein was pledged to the Archbishop of Trier Kuno von Falkenstein . The castle man Johann Schilling appointed by him also managed half of the nearby Frankenstein Castle . In 1397 the castle fell back to the Raugrafen, who sold three quarters of the castle to various nobility from the Palatinate. This finally made the castle a Ganerbeburg . Phillip von Daun ( Daun-Oberstein ) inherited a quarter of the castle . Phillip Daun sold his share of the castle in 1418 to the Elector of the Palatinate , who was together with eleven other noble owner of the castle and with these a detailed truce completed.
Little by little the electors took three quarters of the castle into their possession. Since 1478 the lords of Weingarten were feudal men of the Electors of the Palatinate, the remaining quarter of the castle was their property. In 1521 Christoph Bonn von Wachenheim housed the reformer Ulrich von Hutten on the Diemerstein.
During the Thirty Years War the castle was destroyed and not rebuilt. During these years it fell back to the Electoral Palatinate . At the beginning of the 18th century the castle and the Diemerstein forest came into the possession of the Counts of Wartenberg . Around 1845, Paul Camille received the castle ruins from Denis as a gift from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway. He redesigned it, expanded it and built his private residence, Villa Denis , at the foot of the castle hill .
Todays use
The Diemerstein is a ruin that was remodeled in the middle of the 19th century to suit the taste of the time. The wall, adorned with battlements, dates from this period. The Diemerstein is privately owned. The lower castle is freely accessible, the upper castle closed by a gate.
literature
- Karl Lieser: Frankenstein and Diemerstein, pictures from ancient times . Verlag Franz Arbogast, ISBN 3-87022-225-5
- Palatine Castle Encyclopedia, Volume I, A - E . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore Kaiserslautern, ISBN 3-927754-18-8
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Kunz: Paul Camille von Denis - a picture of life . In: Yearbook for Railway History 21 (1989). ISSN 0340-4250, pp. 5-14 (12).