Friedelsheim Castle
Friedelsheim Castle was a rectangular low castle in what is now the Friedelsheim parish in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
Due to the existing building stock, it is assumed that the castle was built in the 13th or 14th century by the Lords of Bolanden . However, the first written mention of the castle was only in 1418 in the possession of Johann von Derne . In 1433 an Electoral Palatinate bailiff was appointed to the castle. Count Palatine Friedrich I sold the castle to the new owner in 1462 , the Limburg abbot Heinrich Ulner von Dieburg . After the destruction of Limburg Abbey , Abbot Machar Wais von Fauerbach sold the property to Hans VIII von Hirschhorn in 1508 in order to finance the planned new construction of his monastery in Wachenheim . From 1575, Count Palatine Johann Kasimir had the castle extensively rebuilt and expanded. He built a new renaissance castle .
During the Thirty Years' War , Spanish troops captured the castle in 1632 and Swedish troops shortly afterwards. The castle was badly damaged in fires. It was almost completely destroyed in 1689 by French troops in the Palatinate War of Succession .
In 1698, Franz Melchior von Wiser (1651-1702) was enfeoffed with Friedelsheim. After his son Franz Joseph von Wiser (1679–1755) had built a baroque successor building on the foundations of the burned-down castle , the Count of Wiser inherited the estate in 1708/09 , with Friedelsheim castle in the possession of the Wiser line founded by Franz Joseph -Siegelsbach came.
The castle was burned down in 1794 during the First Coalition War .
Today only a few remains of the wall and the castle tower of the former medieval castle are visible. Of the castles only portals, remains of walls and parts of the wide moat. The tower, which is around 16 m high today, was restored in 1986/87, with an external staircase to the newly constructed observation deck and a new roof.
There is also a Mennonite church in the area of the castle . This was built in 1836-1838. In 2004 an extensive renovation and renovation took place. A residential building in the castle area serves the Mennonite community as a rectory today.
Web links
- Entry on Friedelsheim Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Stein : Castles and palaces in the Palatinate. ISBN 3-426-04405-6 , p. 98
- ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, p. 141, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1836; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Arndt Hartung: Palatinate castle district. ISBN 3-9801043-0-3 , p. 69
- ^ Jürgen Keddigkeit : Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Part II: F-H. ISBN 3-927754-48-X , pp. 139-146
- ^ Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Wachenheim: The Chronicle of Friedelsheim. ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Photo of the information board on the viewing platform, on commons.wikimedia.org
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 51.2 " N , 8 ° 13 ′ 13.3" E