Gutenburg Castle

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Gutenburg Castle
The Gutenburg

The Gutenburg

Alternative name (s): Gutenberg, Guttenberg, Weitersheim, Weithersheim
Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Enclosing walls
Standing position : Count
Place: Gutenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 52 '54.8 "  N , 7 ° 47' 55.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '54.8 "  N , 7 ° 47' 55.1"  E
Height: 223  m above sea level NN

The Burg Gutenburg , even Gutenberg, Guttenberg, Next Home, Weithersheim called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle on 223  m above sea level. NN above the local community Gutenberg in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1213 as "castro Weitersheim" . In 1334 the Counts of Sponheim (Vordere Grafschaft) bought the castle, which has since been renamed Gutenburg. After this purchase, a fundamental renovation took place. After the Sponheimers died out (Kreuzenacher line † 1414; Starkenburger line † 1437) the castle came to the common rulers of the front Sponheim (mainly Margraviate Baden and Electoral Palatinate ). The castle has lost its importance over time, was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and fell into disrepair. In the view in Daniel Meisner's Thesaurus philopoliticus , it is already depicted as a ruin. The ruin is now privately owned.

The castle complex had a core castle which was completely surrounded by a ring kennel , protected by a curtain wall with towers and a ditch . The ruins still show clear remains of the wall.

  • Gutenberg on an engraving after Sebastian Furck / Daniel Meisner (before 1630)

  • The Gutenburg near Gutenberg

literature

  • Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich, Achim Wendt: "... where a mighty tower stubbornly looks down" - castles in the Hunsrück and on the Nahe . 1st edition. Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2493-0 , pp. 78–81.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 236.

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Commons : Burg Gutenburg  - Collection of images