Heimburg in Niederheimbach

Heimburg
	Heimburg from the northwest
Alternative name (s):	Hohneck Castle, Hoheneck
Creation time :	1294
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Preserved essential parts
Standing position :	clergy
Place:	Niederheimbach
Geographical location	50 ° 2 '2.1 " N , 7 ° 48' 23.8" E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '2.1 " N , 7 ° 48' 23.8" E

The Heimburg (also called Hohneck Castle , more rarely Hoheneck Castle ) is a medieval castle in the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley , Mainz-Bingen district , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany .

It is not to be confused with the castles of the same or similar names, Hohenecken near Kaiserslautern and Hoheneck near Ipsheim . The name of Heimburg or Burg Hohneck, originating from the two forms "Hain (bach) eck" and "Hein (bach) burg" or "Hein (bach) berg", was rendered differently over the centuries: in 1305 Haineck first , then Heyenburg, in 1344 Heimburg for the first time like today. In 1350 it was called Burg Heymberg or Hoh (e) neck.

location

The hilltop castle stands on a ledge on the northeastern steep slope of the Binger Forest directly above Niederheimbach , which lies between Bingen and Bacharach am Rhein . It is about 10 and 8 km (as the crow flies ) from Bingen and the bend in the Rhine there .

history

Late 13th century Niederheimbach was as Electoral Mainz a possession enclave since the Count Palatine of the Rhine several castles ( Fürstenberg Castle , Sooneck , Reichenstein Castle ) and owned both north and south became of it. In order to secure his property, the Archbishop of Mainz had the Heimburg built from around 1294 (other information refers to 1290) to 1305 as a border castle. It was reinforced in 1315 and 1326 until '28.

After the Palatinate gave up his possessions in favor of Kurmainz in 1344 , the castle complex quickly became strategically insignificant.

Until 1438 it was the seat of a lower court in Mainz. Like most castles in the Middle Rhine Valley, it was destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession . In the course of the romanticism of the Rhine , a partial reconstruction was carried out by the ophthalmologist Teut von Wackerbarth and then by Eduard Rabeneck .

During the later expansion by the industrialist Hugo Stinnes , the gate and the residential wing were built to the southeast. Additional window openings and the battlement also date from this period. The foundation walls of the tower and the curtain wall date from the Middle Ages.

Today the castle is privately owned and cannot be visited.

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