Dill Castle
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| Creation time : | probably 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Place: | dill | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 54 '57.6 " N , 7 ° 20' 43.2" E | |
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The castle Dill is the ruin of a Spur castle on a mountain ridge above the Diller creek in the town of dill in the Rhein-Hunsrück in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The castle was probably built in the 11th century on the remains of a Roman or Celtic predecessor. The founder of the Landesburg was probably Adalbert von Dill Graf von Mörsberg ( County of Sponheim ).
According to a contract from the year 1130 between Meginhard von Sponheim and his wife Mechthild von Mörsberg on the one hand and the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken on the other hand, the rightful possession of Dill Castle was linked to the guardianship of the Augustinian Canons of Pfaffen-Schwabenheim .
During the Palatinate War of Succession , Dill Castle was destroyed in 1697 by a French army under Mestre de camp Melac , whereby the place itself was spared.
From 1966 to 1967 and 1970, the castle ruins were repaired.
description
At the highest point of the castle complex in the north is the core castle above the outer castle . The 19-meter-high, rectangular, four-story residential building with an edge length of 18 by 12 meters still has three side walls, the east wall is missing. There is a lavatory bay on the outside of the north wall . Parts of the barrel-shaped cellar vault are also still accessible. Remains of the curtain wall have been developed in the west of the core castle .
They have brickwork in a herringbone pattern . On the area of the Niederburg to the east are the Protestant church built on the site of the former castle chapel , a well house that has been converted into a holiday home and a modern residential building.
Of the outer bailey to the west and south, only remnants of the foundation and surrounding walls are left, the area is partially used as a garden.
The castle is privately owned. However, there are public tours once or twice a year. The dates are published in the Official Journal.
literature
- Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich, Achim Wendt: "... where a mighty tower still looks down defiantly". Castles in the Hunsrück and on the Nahe. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2493-0 , pp. 56-61.
- Hartmut Georg Urban: Dill Castle (Rhein-Hunsrück district) . In: Olaf Wagener (Hrsg.): Castles in the Hunsrück - A landscape of castles in the flow of time . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-744-9 , pp. 195-207.
- Handbook of German Art Monuments , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, 2nd edition, Munich 1984, p. 212f.
- HHSt RP (1988), pp. 247-251.
- Clemens Jöckle : Pfaffen-Schwabenheim (= Little Art Guide No. 1355). Schnell and Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1982, p. 2
Web links
- Entry on Dill Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Burg Dill at burgenwelt.org