Ehrenstein Castle (Westerwald)
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| Creation time : | around 1331 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, hillside location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Free nobles | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Ehrenstein , part of the community of Asbach | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 37 '2.8 " N , 7 ° 27' 18" E | |
| Height: | 170 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Ehrenstein (not to be confused with the eponymous castle in Thuringia and Ehrenstein Castle in Gotha ) is a small castle ruins in the district Ehrenstein the municipality Asbach in the district of Neuwied , in northern Westerwald .
location
The hillside castle lies at a height of about 170 meters above sea level and only 25 meters above the creek bed of the Mehrbach , which flows a few hundred meters further into the Wied , and the immediately adjacent Ehrenstein monastery . The closest communities to the Wied are Neustadt (Wied) (about 3 kilometers below) and Peterslahr (about 3 kilometers above).
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1331 as the property of Rorich von Uetgenbach (1312-1345), who has called himself Herr zu Ehrenstein since then . Later it came into the possession of the gentlemen von Nesselrode , who owned the castle until it was relinquished in 1993.
During the Thirty Years War the castle was destroyed by Swedish troops and has not been rebuilt since then.
investment
Today the ruin is freely accessible and was cleared of vegetation in 2006.
The artillery tower in front , which protrudes from the forest above the monastery in the valley, is the most striking appearance of the ruin.
End of 2006, the offshore tower and the round are Ringmauer - Flankierungsturm yet received the full amount. Significant remains of the reinforced attack side of the central pentagonal residential tower are still present, the weaker side walls have partially crumbled down to the foundation walls . The gatehouse facing the monastery can only be guessed at.
Extensive security and reconstruction work has been underway since 2007, and in 2010 the north-eastern curtain wall was completely restored. The restoration work is currently ongoing.
Due to the deletion from the land register , the castle ruins have been considered " ownerless " since 1993 . The restoration work is financed by the local community and the Asbach community as well as state funds.
literature
- Leonie von Nesselrode: Ehrenstein and Uetgenbach , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 52 (2009), pp. 222–226.
- Heinrich Neu and Hans Weigert: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Neuwied , L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1940, pp. 111–114.
See also
Web links
- Image and text on Ehrenstein Castle from the Alexander Duncker collection
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
- Ehrenstein Castle (PDF; 348 kB) at hermann-joseph-loehr.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1958/1999, p. 202; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
- ^ An article published in the Rhein-Zeitung on August 30, 2007 (PDF; 348 kB)