Gronau Castle
| Gronau Castle | ||
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 Elevation of Gronau Castle (1784) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Gronau Castle | |
| Creation time : | before 1341 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Parts of a moat, remains of the foundation | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, Ministerials | |
| Place: | Rödersheim-Gronau | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 26 '0.9 " N , 8 ° 16' 32.7" E | |
| Height: | 100 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Gronau , including Castle Gronau called, is an Outbound Wasserburg in the local church Rödersheim-Gronau , district of Gronau , the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Small remains of the foundations, moats and a memorial stone are still present from the former three-wing castle complex. The castle site is located northeast of Rödersheim-Gronau and in the direction of Schauernheim am Stechgraben .
history
The castle, first mentioned in the 14th century, was probably built by the Lords of Frankenstein . In 1341 Heinrich Knebel von Katzenelnbogen sold the castle to the Count Palatine Rudolph II for 1,800 pounds of Heller and probably received it at the same time as a fief . When Dam Knebel died in 1432, the castle and accessories came to the only heir, Guta, who transferred the entire fief of Gronau to her husband Heinrich von Handschuhsheim . In 1582 the minor Wilhelm von Handschuhsheim was elected by Prince Elector Ludwig VI. enfeoffed with the man fief of the castle including all the fields, meadows, vines, interest and the village and courts of Alsheim (today Gronau). The deed of lending expressly mentions that the fief came from the tribe of the Knebel to that of the Handschuhsheimer.
Around 1663, Elector Karl Ludwig enfeoffed Christoph Andreas von Wolzüge with the castle and Elector Johann Wilhelm granted the entitlement to Baron Eberhard Friedrich von Venningen in 1697 , whose son Karl also came into real possession. From this the property passed to Christoph Friedrich von und zu Tann , in the end it belonged to the Baron von Oberndorf.
In the years 1525 and 1795 the castle was expanded or rebuilt and demolished from 1798 to 1830.
Following a battle near Lambsheim between Austrian and French units, Gronau Castle was destroyed in the late evening of November 14, 1795 by the Szekler hussars of Austrian field marshal lieutenant Wernek.
Web links
- Entry on Gronau Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rheinkreises , Volume 2, Speyer: FC Neidhard, 1836, p. 182 ( Google Books )